The governor also makes a practice of being so absolute in everything, that he does not only what is mentioned above so summarily and in general terms—­for, as I have stated to your Majesty in the beginning, it appears difficult in each of these subjects to enumerate the things that he does (even, in my judgment, only the weighty and more serious ones)—­but also in regard to various other matters does he act and proceed in the same manner.  Consequently, I believe that there is no man who will not affirm that from the time that the governor entered this country, he has done no good thing, but all in disservice of your Majesty, at least in the regular procedure.  For if he calls treasury meetings, if he sometimes attends the Audiencia and sessions, or does any other act by reason of his office, there is no one who does not understand that the ends and objects of his acts are his own conveniences, vengeance, and passions or the conduct of his own affairs and those of all his following—­as has been apparent to me at many times, on occasions when I have been able to be present by virtue of my office.  Yet he neither wishes the auditors to counsel or advise or influence him, nor that a word be said about his actions.  On, the contrary he manages to get all his affairs approved especially by those persons holding office, such as regidors, royal officials, and others, and not only laymen but ecclesiastical persons.  Consequently he seeks with most strenuous efforts the life of those laymen who do not approve his acts, both in public and in private.  He threatens to proceed against them, either personally or through intermediaries, for the most remote and trifling irregularity that can be imagined; and he brings suits without hesitating, when he finds no witnesses, to secure others, even though they be false.  To them he furnishes offices and other accommodations for that service, as many dare to say; and there is no longer any redress or protection, or at least that which is usually a safeguard destroys them.  Consequently they endeavor to please him, without considering what he asks or what they do.  Hence it results that neither the royal officials nor the regidors, nor any other persons whatever whom he may need—­either that they may give him their approval, or that they may suit his pleasure—­whether in violation of ordinance or decree of your Majesty or for whatever he might desire, exercise their offices with freedom.  Thus outraged and tyrannized over is all this community—­so much so, that I have been told secretly that the regidors have sent your Majesty a chart of a certain victory which they pretend that the governor has gained from the Dutch enemy who generally frequent these coasts, in which they pretend that the governor burned and put to flight their ships by his plans and arrangements.  God knows the truth, and whether that is so; but I can never persuade myself of so great corruption; for such a thing never happened, and the governor has