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SKETCH OF GUATEMALA.
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The value of goods exported from the United States, exclusive of British produce and manufacture shipped from them, say, 3,333,334
Exported from Spain, Germany and other parts of the continent of Europe, say, 4,500,000
Exported from China and East Indies 1,500,000
In all exported from all parts (exclusive of Great Britain) to the new republics of America £10,000,000

in the following proportions:

Great Britain exports to those republics  20–40ths
France   2–40
United States   6–40
Spain, Germany, and other parts   9–40
China, about   3–40

Let us now consider the state of the trade as it exists in the present year, 1829.

Previously to the sailing of the British Commission to Mexico, which was the first that proceeded to those countries, the whole export trade to Mexico, from Great Britain, in 1822, amounted only to £90,692 sterling. In 1825, during the period of