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ROYAL EDICT.
" SEPTEMBER I, 1809.
" Paulo Fernandez Vianna, Councillor of has Royal Highness,
sce. and Intendant-General of the Police of the Court and States
of Brazil, &c. makes known to all to whom these presents corn*,
that it being of great importance to the public peace that aft..
vices and printetnotices which are exposed respecting books and
foreign works should come to the knowledge of those authorities*
to whom the Princes-Regent, our Lord, has confined the inspec-
tion of such works.-'--Be it therefore understood, that, from the
present date, suck publications, without permission, are not al-
lowed to be made, and that all those who desire to give notice of
wales and foreign writings printed or not printed, are first to
bring the advice, or advertisement, thereof, to the Secretary of
the Intendant-Generai of the Police, that the matter may be seen
and examined, and that the licence, indispensably necessary, bi
granted for the publication. Whoever shall dare to disobey,
and give notice of such writing, native or foreign, without leave,
shall be sent to the public gaol, and shall pay a penalty of two
thousamirials, and a farther sum shall be paid by such who are by
these means instrumental in breaking the public peace. For this
purpose an open Court Fhall be held, where the transgressors
shall be tried, but secret denunciations shall be allowed against
tke offenders in certaid eases." (Signed)
ac PAULO BERNANDEI VIANNA.
to
On this singular Document the Learned Native
Jurist makes the following observations :
" Among other glaring inconsistencies in this
Edict there are two which are extremely obvious
The one is, that an Intendant of Police elevates him-
self to the rank of a Legislator, and 'flans fines
under his sole authority ; the other is, dia t contrary
to the principles both of our own laws and of univer-
sal justice, he directs secret denunciations. We shall
say something upon each of these, and then examine
into e.,0 pat;cal tendency of such measures.
" It is an incontestible principle of right, that to
tiltinmtish what shall constitute crime, and what
shall be the punishment of crime, is the exclusive
province of the Legislator, and the Ma;!i-itrate who
arrogates to himself' such a power is guilty of the hei-
nous offence of high treason. Further, the Agents
VAIO assist in the execution of such illegal acts, pre-
mote a spirit of disorganization, dangerous to the ex.
istence of the legitimate authorities of the State.

44 The laws of Portugal are so strict in thii prin-
ciple that the Magistrate is not allowed thediscre-
tion of visiting similar offe.nces with similar punish-
ments. It is necessary that the identity of the crime
and of the punishment be determined by established
law. (Ord. Lv. ii. tit. IS. in fin pr.) The ground of
this precision was, because the Magistrate being
empowered to apply at the discretion of the criminal
law, might establish penalties of his own authority,
and thus infringe on the most sacred privilege of So-
vereignty.
s, We shall not speak of the secret denunc;ations.
We are astonished at the beginning of the 19th cen-
tut'', to observe this expedient resorted to, because,
at the present day, no such forms of accusation ars
practised in any criminal court whatever. The ten-
dency of such a step in our day is to break the spirit
of the people, and to disturb the tranquillity of the
Most virtuolis citizen. (Becc. torn. i. p. 28. ed. Vest.
081.) Who can enjoy peace of mind or repose
the circle of his family, when it is in the power of any
and of every malignant person secretly to denounce
him to the officers of justice as a criminal, and the
least of the evils the accused is on such occasions to
suffer is to be arraigned before the Magistrate, to.be
imprisoned in solitude, to undergo a system of inter-
rogation like a public offender, and to suffer a thou-
sand miseries in his own person and in his connec-
tions, before it will be possible for him to establish
the purity of his own conduct.
~ How is any man competent to escape the gripe
of a secret enemy protected by public authority? Our
laws have been so humane on such subjects, that no
testimony whatever was held to be valid not delivered
in the presence of the person accused, that it, might
be confirmed or contradicted. (Ord. liv. iii. tit. 62.
§ 1. and Ord. liv. iii. tit. 24. § 20, and by. iii. tit.
32, 1. )
A momentts attention will expose the political
tendency of such measures. When Cayenne was taken
by the Portuguese, there were two printing presses
in that colony. On this conquest it became necessary
us determine whether these should exist or be abo-
lished, such establishments being forbidden in the ad-
jacent territory of Brazil. 'They were continued, and
the Brazilians veto have discontents excited amongst
them, because an adopted and vassal colony has ob-
tained an unfortunate privilege they are not permitted
to enjoy."
After commenting further on the injurious effects,
the writer subsequently enters into a comparative view
of the state cr Portugal and her Western Colonies, in
which be endeavours to shew the evil councils by
which both have been guided, and the consequent
adoption of a general system of oppression, of which
this edict is a part; calculated to reduce the domi-
nions of the Prince Regent both in Europe and Ame-
rica, under the power of Napoleon and his missiona-
ries, who crawl like vermin every where.

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