Abstract
The purpose of the text is to analyze the legal acts that led to the removal of the power of the last governor of eighteenth century Pernambuco. The article highlights the role of political communication and the legal process chosen by his accusers so that the Portuguese Crown agreed to punish D. Tomás José de Melo by removing him from his role in the captaincy and trying him in court in Lisbon. The article explores the colonial documentation of the Overseas Historical Archive, seeking to understand the legal process and the case taken against the governor, concluding that, even at the end of the eighteenth century, justice was still a prerogative of the monarch who was responsible for giving each one what was theirs by right.
Keywords:
political communication; administration; justice