Although any one might resent having to furnish an exoneration when there is no cause for the accusation, there is much more to resent here in the accusations which some are wont to write without any justification, and without the matter being known; for, by reason of the long time that must elapse before one comes to have notice of it and the truth of the matter is made known, he has already suffered much in darkness from an evil and unauthentic relation, and this is the truth.
According to the news received here of what has come in the said ships, the aid in silver and reals that has come on your Majesty's account amounts to three hundred and fifty-two thousand pesos; while the supplies that I asked both this year and last come to less than one-third of the amount that was generally brought in several former years--for I am very careful not to exceed what is actually necessary and unavoidable, in order to save the so excessive expenses which were generally incurred in this; since other expenses are not wanting that render that saving very necessary.
The infantry does not amount to two hundred men, in three companies.

If these men were that number, and Spaniards, it would not be so bad; but, although I have not seen them, because they have not yet arrived here, I am told that they are, as at other times, for the most part boys, mestizos, and mulattoes, with some Indians.

There is no little cause for regret in the great sums that reenforcements of such men waste for, and cost, your Majesty.

I cannot see what betterment there will be until your Majesty shall provide it, since I do not think, that more can be done in Nueva Spana, although the viceroy must be endeavoring to do so, as he is ordered.
[_Marginal note_: "Have the orders held by the viceroys regarding this collected.

All that he says for the benefit of the treasury is good.