ack with
increased forces; and in the preparation which has been already made
or is now under way, more than fifty thousand pesos have been spent
from the exchequer of your Majesty and furnished by private persons,
to say nothing of the losses which the pirates will inflict when
they return. The said Doctor Morga has been to blame for all this;
because, contrary to the orders of your Majesty, he succeeded in
having his relative placed in an office which he did not deserve, and
for which he was not competent. Concerning this last affair, a copy
of the proceedings of the council of war was sent to your Majesty,
in which was the above-mentioned order to the said Cotelo. In order
that it may be more thoroughly proved, they sent to the said town of
Arevalo to have the matter investigated; but the magistrate there,
for fear of the said Doctor Morga, would take no action.

The said Doctor Morga, continuing his bold acts, was not content with
having been responsible for the losses to property. Two Dutch ships
having arrived in the past year of six hundred, in these islands,
and having come in the month of November to the mouth of the bay of
this city, while they were beating about in the bay, ships were put
in readiness to go out against them. The said Don Joan Ronquillo,
commander of the naval forces of your Majesty, having gone to the
port of Cavite for this purpose, the said Doctor Morga commenced his
machinations, and claimed that he should go as commander of the said
expedition. To give this some foundation and color, when the said Don
Joan Ronquillo had come to this city to seek various supplies for the
said expedition, he was arrested; and on the next day following the
said Doctor Morga went to the port of Cavite, saying that he had best
be present in person to encourage the despatching of the fleet. In
fact, through scheming and plotting, and by the authority of his
office, he succeeded in taking the said expedition away from the said
Don Joan Rronquillo, and having it given to himself. He wrote letters,
the originals of which are extant, to the governor of these islands,
asking him that, even if Don Joan Rronquillo should petition for
judgment against him, he in no wise respond or have to do with him
until the despatch of the vessels should be completed, so that the
latter might not appeal to the Audiencia and obtain a decree which
would hinder the said Doctor Morga in the expedition. When three ships
were armed and f