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1823. Carta de Joaquim Maria Torres, impressor, para o Infante Dom Miguel.

Author(s)	Joaquim Maria Torres
Addressee(s)	Infante Dom Miguel
In English	Denunciation letter from Joaquim Maria Torres, a printer, to Prince Dom Miguel. The author denounces a political conspirator, Cândido de Almeida Sandoval, and promises to cooperate in stopping the planned treason. These proceedings were opened in 1823 to punish a political conspiracy against the absolutist regime. Among the accused was Cândido de Almeida Sandoval, who had already been arrested by the former liberal regime for violating the Law of the Freedom of Press. Many of the accused were acquitted, but not Sandoval, who was exiled to Angola, where he kept ending up in jail and escaping from it. Even Jean Baptiste-Douiville (a French traveller who was in Central Africa between 1828 and 1830) met him and refers his activism in his diaries. If there is no translation for the letter itself, you may copy the text (while using the view 'Standardization') and paste it to an automatic translator of your choice.

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~~Serenissimo Senhor~~

~~Hum acontecimento extraordinario, me conduz aos pés de Vossa Alteza, sem outro algum fim mais, q o de prevenir males espantosos.~~

Longe de mim, Serenissimo Senhor, a idéa de hum Denunciante, q apezar dos nobres exemplos dos Heroes da antiga Roma, eu Jámais pude conciliar hum semelhante titulo, com o caracter inteiro, e probo de huma educação morigerada.

Quando porêm, Serenissimo Senhor, hum Vassallo fiel, e amante dos seus soberanos, vê a Patria proxima a nadar em sangue, e a cobrirse de montões de ruinas, a existencia do seu Soberano, e de sua Augusta Familia compromettida, e ameaçada de huma infallivel destruição; dever-se-ha elle deixar ficar extactico observador de semelhante catástrofe, podendo tê-la prevenido? ~~deverá elle neste caso, valer-se de algum pretexto, seja elle qual fôr, para deixar consumar huma scena tão tragica, e horrorosa?~~ ~~Deixará elle( sómente porq o ser Denunciante lhe desagrada) envolver o Reino todo na anarquia, para ao depois o vêr coberto de lucto e dôr?~~ ~~Deixará elle finalmente com~~

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