thanks to his influential friends and to the new political climate after the esquilache riots (1766), he resumed his bureaucratic and political career. in 1767, he was appointed director of the san fernando and madrid royal hospices. he enthusiastically followed the reformist policies promoted by campomanes and aranda. that same year he was appointed intendent and "asistente" (corregidor) of seville and he was the first superintendent of the newly established nuevas poblaciones (new settlements) of andalusia, that were intended to exploit vast portions of arable lands. he succeeded to establish forty new settlements. as seville's "asistente", he implemented enthusiastically enlightened and reformist policies. he improved sevillian municipal treasury, public supplies, urbanism and public works. he reformed and secularised welfare assistance and planned a reform for the university of seville. he wrote a report about the project for a new agrarian law (1768), which is one of the most important spanish physiocrat writings.