[1825]. Carta de José Dat, pseudónimo de Gregorio Antonio de Rueda, para Santos Quintín Jiménez.

Letter from José Dat, pseudonym of Gregorio Antonio de Rueda, to Santon Quintín Jiménez.

The author congratulates Santos Quintín for the victories of the Costitutionalists and incites him to keep struggling for the freedom and against the Bourbons, using examples taken from the present and from history.

In 1824, the chancellery of Madrid brought a lawsuit against Gregorio Antonio de Rueda, lieutenant of the royalist volunteers, accusing him of overtaking orders and of illegally collecting commissions. His military record was suspicious, because he had fought with the constitutionalists, and then he had deserted and went with the royalists. Together with a man called Jun Gil, he started a fraudulent business with false commissions, which turned out to be very profitable. However, he was eventually arrested and imprisoned, but his crimes did not stop with his imprisonment. In jail, he accused some inmates of organizing an uprising against the king. Among the people he accused there was Santos Quintín, whom he tried to incriminate sending him a seditious letter signed with the pseudonym of José Dat. However, Santos Quintín never received the letter, which was handed over by the author to the authorities. During the process against Gregorio de Rueda, the letter was considered a proof of his dishonesty. Santos Quintín was never accused of anything. The implications contained in the letter are quite serious, because the letter explicitly incites to a revolution against Ferdinand VII, and if the letter had been considered true, both the author and the addressee would have been condemned to death.