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MEXICO IN 1827.

Of the Imports, four-tenths were the produce or manufactures of Old Spain and her Colonies, and the remaining six-tenths were the manufactures of other European countries, imported indirectly through Spain, or Cuba, the returns for which were made through the same medium.[1]

To the annual average amount of Imports and Exports given above, must be added 9,840,667 dollars three reals; viz., 8,340,667 dollars, three reals, which I find to be the average value (on a term of thirteen years, from 1779 to 1791,) of the precious metals exported on the King's account; and 1,500,000 dollars, which on the lowest possible computation, must have been the value of the quicksilver, and paper, introduced for the mines, and the Royal Monopoly of Tobacco.

Dollars. Reals.
The two together, give, on the whole twenty-five years 226,016,684 3
which, added to the Imports and Exports of the Balanza General 538,640,163 0
give 764,656,847 3
  1. I have borrowed the whole of this analysis of the Balanza de Comercio, (page 416,) from a very able report on the Veracruz trade, drawn up by Mr. Mackenzie, who was His Majesty's Consul there in 1823 and 1824, and whose investigations, with regard to that period, I have taken advantage of throughout this Section.