He had not captured a single pirate ship or rooted out a single pirate haunt.
Claiming, as a King's officer, to be exempt from the provisions of the Company's charter, he had indulged in private trade, and had even had dealings with the pirates.

He had flouted the Company's authority wherever it existed, and had encouraged others to resist it.

Every person who had a dispute with the Company received protection from him.

He told the Goa authorities that the Company's vessels were only traders, and therefore not entitled to the salutes they had always received.

He had refused to give up the Company's sailors whom he encouraged to desert to his ship.