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he caused not only anxiety to his friends, but to everyone in 



the Island whose interests were centred in him. His illness 



was malignant and most tedious. But as he was a valiant and 



undaunted soldier, he was even more so a great Christian 



all his life. Of most religious habits during all the years of 



his administration, he lived in close friendship and intimacy 



with the Jesuit Fathers, whom he greatly loved, and by 



whose advice he managed all things that related to his own 



spiritual welfare, and carried them out most devoutly as a true 



son of the Church. He added a new codicil to his last will and 



testament, and after other arrangements added these words, 



which I quote as an example of his zeal and goodness : — 



I have never served the king in peace or war for the sake of my own 

 interests : the Veedorde la hazienda, they say, charged me otherwise, and 

 falsely accused me. I write here, that I pardon him, as G-od forgive me. 



It is the greatest proof of a Christian, deeply wronged, 

 thus easily to pardon injuries. In the same codicil it 

 appears that he asked His Majesty to draw from his own 

 salary 22,000 xarafins — another great proof of his integrity 

 and disinterestedness ; for when a minister becomes his 

 sovereign's creditor, he is deserving of the greatest praise 

 and rewards. But he showed by not coveting these (although 

 he thoroughly deserved them for all his work, labour, 

 and fatigue), that he did all, and thought of nothing but, 

 for the service of his king, even to increasing the public 

 treasury at his own expense, and without a thought of 

 profit for himself. The little he gained during his admi- 

 nistration, says another clause in the codicil — to which can be 

 given the more credit, for being the words of a man full of 

 virtues, who knew he was about to die, than the malice of 

 evil tongues and of those even worse inclined. He says : — 



I leave nothing for alms, not even for the mass and requiem of 

 my soul ; for I die so poor that I have neither clothes nor jewels that 

 I have not given away. 



And in another place : — 



As to my servants I have nothing to leave them for all they have done 

 for me, nor to compensate them for all their love and all the help they 

 have rendered me. The annuity which I receive as Captain-Major 



