[1820-1830]. Carta de Juande para un destinatario no identificado.

Letter from Juande to an unidentified addressee.

The author writes to an unidentified addressee to give him various news about the progress of the war, using a coded language for certain passages.

The General Police Administration was closely monitoring the activities of foreign citizens residing in Portugal, also controlling their communications, in collaboration with the superintendent of the Posts. This letter is part of this intercepted correspondence from those Spanish military and intellectuals who, fleeing the absolutist Spain, had taken refuge in Portugal and were suspected of harbouring liberal ideas and of plotting to overthrow Fernando VII and establish a constitutional regime.

The events narrated in this letter are part of the royalist war, (guerra realista, 1822-1823), a war fought between the party in favour of Ferdinand VII, the royalists, and the defenders of the Constitution of Cadiz, the constitutionalists, during the period of the Trienio Liberal. The war ended after the intervention of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, in 1823: a French army mobilized in 1823 by the King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Royalists restore King Ferdinand VII to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium.