The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-06 00:00:00

" EDICT.

" Her Majesty's Government having most particularly
enjoined and charged me with the maintenance. of order,
quiet, and public tranquillity in the capital, the inhabitants
of which, notwithstanding their numbers, give the most
evident proofs of their adhesion to the cause of liberty and
order, thereby showing themselves to be worthy of the
greatest protection and care ; and in fulfilment of the duty
thus entrusted to me, anxious also on my- pat to act up
to the confidence with which both the Government and
the people have hitherto reposed on my measures, I have
deemed meet to inquire into and prohibit by all means in
my power all acts tending to disturb public tranquillity,
and to prosecute, by every legitimate means, such persons
as may print lithograph, or in any other way publish ad-
dresses, proclamations, pasquinades, or papers, of whatever
nature soeser, which may not have previously received the
necessary sanction. And whereas an anarchical proclama-
tion has been lately distributed about, falsely attributed to
some officers of the gallant National Guard of this capital.
the purport of which has been severely censured by every
sensible patriot, her Majesty's Government has resolved
and come to the determination of hearing itself with
all that firmness and energy so much required unler existing
circumstances, handing over to the severity of the laws those
periu-bators, who, forgetting what they owe to their fellow-
citizens and their country, attempt any turbulence or insult ;
fur liberty, which always reposes on justice, can neither
tolerate arbitrary acts or violence, neither does she require
such means for her support and maintenance. The worthy
and brave people of Lisbon are therefore enjoined to be
united and constant, and this will be sufficient to put
down any sinister attempt of the enemies of order, who are
also those of the country.
" And that no person may plead ignorance of this edict,
I have caused it be placarded in the most public places of
this capital.

Tlle AdminiAr.ilor-General, ad interim,
"FRANCISCO SOAIZES CALDEIItA."
" Lisbon, Aug.. 23, 1837."
ANSWER OF THE BRITISH CONSUL TO THE LEPEESENTA-

TION OF THE BRITISH MERCHANTS RESIDENT IN LIS-

BON, FOR THE LIBERATION OF MR. J. A. VANZELLER, A

BRITISH SUBJECT :-

" BRITISH CONSULATE, LISBON, AUG. 22.—Sta—In
answer to your communication of yesterday evening, en-
closii:g a letter to her Majesty's Minister at this Court,
signed by yourself and several British merchants and resi-
dents in this cite, I am directed by Lord Howard de Wal-
den to request that you will inform these gentlemen, that
upon an official representation being made to the Civil Go-
vernor of Lisbon of the illegality attending the imprison-
ment of Mr. J. A. Vanzeller, an order was issued fur his
immediate liberation, and he was actually set at large se-
veral hours antecedent to the receipt of your letter. The
Cis is Gowrnor, M. Scares Caldeira, also declared that it
was owing to his total ignorance that Mr. J. A. Vanzeller
was a British tu',ject that lc had commits d him to prison.
" His Lordship likewis! requests me to express his hopes
that the subjects of her Britannic Majesty will continue to
observe the same exemplary obedience to the laws of the
country,. which so justly characterises the British com-
munity in Portugal, ond to abstain from tal.ing any active
part in the political agitations which so uultappily distract
this coutvrt.

" His Lordship further desires me to assure you, that his
attention is directed to the operation of the acts of the
Cortes suspending the law framed for the protection and
guarantee of personal liberty ; and that his best efforts will
be exerted to enforce due respect to those privileges secured
to British subjects by the existing treaties between Great
Br.tain abd Portugal.

"1: ha-ve the honour to he, &r.,
-". WILLIAM SNuTH, Consul.

" Daniel Sharpe, Esq.'

MEXICAN BONDHOLDF.RS.

An adjourned meeting of the Mexican bondholders took
place yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, for the
purpose of receiving the Report of the Special Comn:ittee
'appointed at the meeting held on the 9th of August last,
to take into consideration, and report their opinions, on a
decree of the Mexican Government, and a communication
made by the Mexican Minister in London to the Commit-
tee of the Spanish American bondholders, relative to a cer-
tain plan by which the Mexican Government proposed to
liquidate the debt from that State to its European creditors,
together with the interest thereon, the payment of which
has been so lone- deferred.
A correspondent of the 31orninj A-Iv,,rtiscr says,
" There has been some movement reliting to these Securi-
ties (Mexican Bonds), the object of which, we believe, is
to cancel the present securities, and transfer them to secu-
rity on certain lands ; it may not be uninteresting, but, on
the contrary, be a matter of pecuniary consideration. The
following is the description of land upon which the security
is offered. The river Sabine forms the south-western
boundary of the United States, separating them from
Mexico. Texas lies south and west of the Sabine, hut its
boundaries are not well defined. Tnc inhabitants of Texas,
having revolted from Mexico, have proclaimed indepen-
dence, and have hitherto resisted with their deadly rifles all
the efforts of the Mexicans for their subjugation. The
Texians intend to include a part of Coahuila, and, indeed,
m my of them declare that their boundaries ine:ude all east
of the Rio Bravo. For the Mexican Minister here, then,
to se'l the lands east of the Rio Bravo, is as preposterous
as for the Pope to invest the Otaheitans with the fee-simple
of the soil in Wales."

MR. BULIVER'S NEW NOVEL.—Mr. Buiwer's
ne v novel is .nearly ready for publication.. Mr. Bulwer's
works are read and admired in every language of Europe,
a.id arc spread like Scott's over the face of the civilized
have
r class,
the
ed
praises in ever
ofy
word. His poetical imaginings have shred the bosom of
clime.th
egenthiisloccizsical
creations
eonos fev:y
extorted
the learned, while they excited the best syMpathies of un-
schooled humanity.--Literary Gazette. 'lle title of Mr.
Bulwcr's new novel is " Ernest Maltravers."
DETERMINED SUICIDE.--On
Monday
night last
respectably-dressed man went into the shop of a butcher
in Regent-street, Westminster, and, uupereeived, took up
a knife from the cutting-board, with which lie nearly s,--
vered his head from his body. Some perons
removed him to the shop of Mr. P,tare., a sar4con in
Regent-street ; but, from the severe wound inflicted, it was
considered advisable to convey him on a police strt,teher to
Westminster Hospital, where,. notwithstanding every atten-
tion was paid to him by the medical gentlemen ofthat insti-
tution, death put an end to his sufferings yesterday fore-
noon. So determined was the unfortunate man on the rash
s
from
that it appeared about ter° hours previoits:y he had en-
deavoured to steal a knife a shop in en-
T`
but the proprietor from his appearance, that he
was either insane or intoxicated at the time, allowed him to
depvit after a r. primand.
Such was the prejudire, no`.. to say inczance, of
Parliament, in the year t,l-T;, that it +;
;),:,iCtmd rig t hops
on the ground of duir being a wicked weed. They were
fused in England in malt liquors in 1523 ; after which
eirnudical virtues were discovered.