310 MEXICO. Dollars. The Exports consisted of, The precious metals . 209,777.206 American Produce . 69,7575^17 Total 279,534,223 The Imports were — European productions ^from Spain and her ' Dependencies • • 224,447,132 American Produce . • 34,658,808 Total 259,105,940 Exports and Imports . . • 538,640,163 Above nine-tenths of this were monopolized by the Mother- country, as will appear by the following statement : — Value in dollars of trade between Spain, and her Dependencies, with Mexico, from 1796 to 1820 484,375,069 Value of trade, during the same period, with other countries direct . . . 54,265,094 Total 538,640,163 Even this small amount of direct trade was due to acci- dental circumstances, which compelled the Court of Spain to deviate, occasionally, from all ordinary rules ; as was the case in I8O7, 1808, and 1809, when foreign sKips received licenses to trade with Veracruz, and exported, in the short space of three years, —
