[1828]. Carta de Bernardo Peinador, auditor de guerra honorario, para [Manuel López, capitán de caballería].

Letter from Bernardo Peinador, an honorary Judge Advocate, to Manuel López, a cavalry captain.

The author informs Manuel López about the difficulties he have in doing his business, and about the movements of the troops in the area near him.

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 harboring liberal ideas and of plotting to overthrow Fernando VII and establish a constitutional regime.

This letter was written with invisible ink. For this reason, before the real text there is a brief note written by the author and signed with the pseudonym of Bernarda, in which the author discreetly informs the addressee that he will answer him in the same way this has written him.