1823. Carta Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro, sob o pseudónimo de António Chuço, para Fernando Maria de Sousa Coutinho Castelo Branco e Meneses, marquês de Borba.

Extortion letter from Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro, under the alias of António Chuço, to the marquis of Borba, a member of the government.

The authors threatens the addressee with violence unless he pays a sum of money to a prisoner in Lisbon.

In the first quarter of the 19th century, extortion letters became a very typical practice. Authors threatened rich addressees with all sorts of ruinous events in the case they didn't hand in a certain amount of money. The frequentness of this practice was possible also because of the political and social turmoil associated with these first years of Liberalism.