1827. Carta de Gerónimo Desen para Manuel López, capitán de caballería.

Letter from Gerónimo Desen to Manuel López, a cavalry captain.

The author gives Manuel López information about his family and about the supporters of Ferdinand VII. He also declares his hate for the Bourbons and informs the addressee that the general cannot answer his letters because somebody intercepts and read them.

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