1827. Carta de Juan Caldas Montes para Manuel López, capitán de caballería.

Letter from Juan Caldas Montes to Manuel López, a cavalry captain.

The author complains about how difficult it is to do what Manuel López asked him to do in his previous letter, and advises the addressee to destroy certain documents.

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.