as though the reins of government had been transferred into his hands he interfered in public affairs ordered various persons to be arrested called to account the officers employed by the and paid no respect to don who remained in command during the absence of his brother the astonished at this presumption demanded a sight of the ill sion under which he acted but treated him with great replying that he would show it only to the admiral on second thoughts however lest there should be doubts in the public mind of his right to interfere in the affairs of the colony he ordered his letter of from the sovereigns to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet it was brief but comprehensive to the following purport and other persons who by our orders are in the we send to you our groom of the chambers who will speak to you on our part we command you to give him faith and credit the report now that the of and his family was at hand and that an had arrived to hear and the of the public this was originated by himself who threw out of rigid and signal it was a time of for every started up into an every one who by or crime had incurred the wholesome of the laws was loud in his against the oppression of there were ills enough in the colony some incident to its situation others produced by the of die all were ascribed to the of the admiral he was made responsible alike for the evils produced by others and for his own stern ah the old complaints were against him and his brothers and the usual and cause given for their that they were foreigners who sought merely their own interest and at the expense of the and the of destitute of to perceive what was true and what false in these complaints and a only to condemn r life and op saw in every thing testimony of the of he intimate and perhaps thought that the admiral was keeping at a distance from through fear of his in the fulness of his presumption he even set out with a body of horse to go in quest of him a vain and weak man in power is prone to have of his own description the empty and followers of wherever they went spread among the natives of the might and importance of their chief and of the punishment he intended to inflict upon in a little while the report through the island that a new admiral had arrived to administer the government and that the former one was to be put to death the news of the arrival and of the conduct of had in the interior of the island he to to give him a meeting of his approach also returned there as every one knew the lofty spirit and temper of his high sense of his services and his jealous maintenance of � is official dignity a violent explosion was anticipated at the impending interview also expected something of the kind but secure in his royal letter of he came fortified with the swelling of a little mind the result showed how difficult it is for petty spirits to the conduct of a man like in any striking situation his natural heat and had been subdued by a life of trials he had learned to bring his passions into to his judgment he had too true an estimate of his own dignity to enter into a contest with a shallow like above all he had a profound reverence for the authority of his sovereigns for in his spirit prone to deep feelings of reverence his loyalty was inferior only to hi f religion he received therefore with the most grave and courtesy he repeated his own ordering that the letter of should be again proclaimed by sound of in presence of the he listened to it with solemn deference and assured of his readiness to in whatever might be the pleasure of his sovereigns this unexpected moderation while it astonished the and disappointed he had come prepared for a scene of and had hoped that co in the heat and impatience of the moment would have said or done something that might have been into a for the authority of the sovereigns he endeavoured in fact some months afterwards to procure from the public present a prejudiced statement of the interview but the deference of the the royal letter of had been too marked to be and all the were highly in his favour continued to in public a and the respect and forbearance with which he was uniformly by and the of the latter in all his measures to the of the colony were regarded as proofs of the of his spirit he was looked upon as a declining man and hailed as the lord of the every spirit who had any lurking ill will any real or imaginary cause of complaint now hastened to give it utterance perceiving that in gratifying his malice he was his interest and that in the admiral he was gaining the friendship of � ind l c vol it life voyages of a the poor too by the of the white men rejoiced in tlie prospect of a of rulers vainly that it might a of their many of the who had promised to the admiral after their defeat in the now assembled at the house of the brother of near the river where they joined in a formal complaint against whom they considered the cause of all the evils which had sprung from the and the vices of his followers now considered the great object of bis mission fulfilled he had collected information sufficient as he thought to the ruin of the admiral and his brothers and prepared to return to spain resolved to do the same he felt that it 