without the
careful consideration of facts which is necessary to obtain results
for the service of your Majesty, and with very indolent attention; and
on the other hand, contriving to secure with them his own advantage,
under color of service to your Majesty, by sending your Majesty's
ships to Yndia, Macan, and other regions for his own negotiations,
under pretext of sending them for military stores and other things
for the royal service. In this way he defrauds your Majesty of a
vast sum of ducados, a thing that could be given another name. In
still another direction [he acts unjustly], by giving warrants to
pay due-bills, and that not to the owners of those bills, but to
persons who buy them at one-third and less [of their face value]. To
such persons does he open the doors to pay them, while they are shut
on the wretched owners without recourse. [That is done] perhaps, in
order to make them sell their claims; for of the two-thirds or more
remaining from the face value of the due-bill for their service of
wealth, a great share of profit falls to the governor, as is openly
muttered. This is affirmed by many conjectures, and especially by
the fact that it all passes through the hands of his retainers and
partisans, and those of his household. All this is done to the neglect
of building ships and preparing the supplies necessary for the defense
and conservation of the country.

The governor is also managing to make vast profits from consignments
of goods; and--as is hinted, and even affirmed, however secretly he
attempts to keep his affairs--a great part of the consignments are
supplied by the royal treasury of your Majesty, and the royal income
from the licenses given to the Chinese to remain in the country
aids him not a little. That sum amounts nearly every year to one
hundred and thirty thousand pesos, for many of the Chinese remain,
thus incurring the risk of another insurrection, notwithstanding the
so strict decrees in which your Majesty orders the very opposite,
and prohibits their remaining. That money was formerly collected
and placed in the treasury through the intervention of the royal
officials. The governor has ordered it to be collected by one of his
servants and paid whenever the latter chooses, so that vast sums are
always due to the treasury. I have been assured that forty thousand
pesos are still owing this year, which it is said that the governor is
using for his trading, as well as even the salary