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 which is generally given the collectors.  For that reason, when the servant receives the money that the Chinese pay for their licenses, it is weighed, and if it is under weight, he demands two or three reals more; but when he delivers that part of it which he chooses to pay into the treasury, as I have said, he does not deliver it by weight, but by count, and thus keeps the profit of the two or three reals.  That amounts to about four thousand pesos.  It is sometimes even said that what he delivers into the treasury on the principal account he pays in warrants bought by the schemes and channels above mentioned.  So many of these things are attributed to his master, the governor, that I am ashamed to relate them, for I do not believe them—­or at least I suspect that they are exaggerated.  For it is even said that that servant gives false licenses instead of the true ones, which he distributes to the Chinese at the same price as the good ones, and keeps the money for them.  It is said that the governor has money taken from the royal treasury secretly at night.  Thus do they say, and attribute things to the governor by so many and so diverse roads, that one is scandalized on hearing them—­both about the royal revenues and about other particular things in the matter of profit.  What I know for certain is that the governor does not have the accounts audited annually in January, as your Majesty orders, by the president and two auditors.  On the contrary, the accounts for years before he assumed the government are so far behind that they have not yet come to those of his government, although he has been here three years.  In those accounts preceding—­although I am one of the two auditors whom your Majesty orders to audit the accounts together with the president; and although I say many things about his negligence—­I have not been sufficient, for he is the one who has to take action therein.  I believe that he has