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

Report letter from Joaquim Maria Torres, a printer, to Prince Dom Miguel.

The author reports on a meeting with a political conspirator, Cândido de Almeida Sandoval. He tells about the plans to have Portugal invaded from Spain with an Army with Masonic leaders.

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 Africa (Mozambique and 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.