1823. Carta Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro, sob o pseudónimo de António Chuço, para Fernando António de Almeida, fazendeiro.

Extortion letter from Luís Caetano Leirós de Andrade e Castro, under the alias of António Chuço, to Fernando António de Almeida, a land owner.

The author 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.