to military affairs in Nueva Galicia to first ask his leave to carry out orders. His presumption was rebuked, Mayorga maintaining the unity of the chief military command.[1]
The governor of Vera Cruz also manifested some insubordination, because the viceroy did not approve some of his schemes,[2] and thus the viceroy's position was made unpleasant. Besides these annoyances was the injustice of not making his appointment regular, or sending out a successor. His tenure was ad interim, and therefor he was allowed only half pay, though his expenses were great.[3] At last he was recalled, and gave up the office on the 29th of April, 1783, soon after embarking for Spain, He died on board the vessel in sight of Cádiz,[4] foul play being suspected by some. In April, 1784, news reached Mexico that Mayorga's estate had been attached by the king's order. This was probably the usual course where an official was subjected to a residencia. That of the ex-viceroy was published in Mexico on the 3d of June, the alcalde de corte, Juan Francisco de Anda, being the judge,[5] with results favorable to the residenciado.
The forty-eighth viceroy of New Spain was Matías de Galvez, García, Madrid, y Cabrera,[6] a lieutenant general of the royal armies,[7] transferred from Guatemala, where he had been president, governor, and captain-general.[8] The new viceroy brought with him
- ↑ From that time the people of Jalisco began to show a spirit of independence from the central authority, which in later years became more developed, and caused untold evils. Id.
- ↑ Lerdo de Tejada, Apuntes Hist., no. 5, 308.
- ↑ Of this he complained to the king, pleading also that the trouble had come upon him soon after he had lost heavily by the Guatemala earthquake of 1775. Alaman, Disert., iii. app. 72. After his death 20,000 pesos were paid his widow, Maria Josefa Valcárcel, out of the royal treasury. Id.; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, i. 252-3; Zamacois, Hist. Mej., v. 636.
- ↑ Gomez, Diario, 173; Panes, Vir., in Monum. Dom. Esp., MS., 125.
- ↑ Ordenes de la Corona, MS., iii. 57; Gomez, Diario, 184, 186-7.
- ↑ Galvez, Solemnes Exequios, title-page. At foot of his portrait, which is probably copied from the original formerly existing in the viceregal palace, he is named Galvez y Gallardo. Rivera, Gob. Mex.v., i. 449.
- ↑ Cédularios, i. 153; Disposiciones Varias, iii. 97.
- ↑ Hist. Cent. Am., ii., this series.
