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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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