1822. Cópia de carta de José Cupertino da Fonseca e Brito, Corregedor, para Dom João VI, Rei de Portugal.

Letter from José Cupertino da Fonseca e Brito, a high magistrate, to King Dom João VI.

The author tells the addressee how he proceeded in order to arrest the conspirator Joaquim Teles Jordão .

In 1822, in the aftermath of the liberal revolution in Portugal, the suspects of a counter-revolutionary coup were prosecuted by the Royal justice. The official version of the coup was described in the 'Diário do Governo' (Cabinet Journal) as the act of «evil anarchists and ambitious conspirators who wanted no less than barbarically cover with blood our happy Regeneration, put our Homeland in mourning, depose the King and take down the House of Deputies ('Cortes')». Five suspects were immediately arrested: Francisco de Alpoim e Meneses, a businessman, Januário da Costa Neves, a knight of the Order of Christ, officer of the Military Ministry of the Army, Manuel Ferreira, a footman, and João Rodrigues da Costa Simões, an apprentice printer.