Once he finished his studies, he decided to settle down in Mahón, where he combined his job as a lawyer in several public positions (sub-delegate judge of the vice-admiral of Menorca between 1780 and the Spanish conquest in 1783) and his intellectual endeavours.

In 1778 he founded, along with Captain Joan Roca i Vinent, the Societat Maonesa de Cultura (Mahón Society for Culture), which had its quarters in his own house.

He wrote dramatic neoclassical plays in which he skilfully used the Catalan language to compose the French Alexandrine rhyming couplet: Lucrècia (1769), Arminda (1775) and Constància (1779).

An analysis of the works found in his library sheds light on his literary preferences: Greco-Roman classical works including those written by Homer, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Terence; 17th and 18th centuries writers such as Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Jean Racine and Voltaire; English classical and contemporary authors such as Shakespeare, Thomson and Young; as well as Italians such as Petrarch, Torquato Tasso and Pietro Metastasio; and some German writers such as Gessner.

Notwithstanding, he also produced some literary books such as those edited in 1783: Ègloga de Tirsis i Filis, using a neoclassical style, and the tragicomedy Rosaura, following Baroque standards.

Due to this economic activity, specially based in the new capital, Mahón, there was a rise of the commercial bourgeoisie, which was open to relationships with the rest of Europe.