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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL

From official returns, the value of the exports from Great Britain into the new republics, in 1824, was—

To Brazil £3,425,324
To Spanish America 2,377,110
In all 5,802,434
To the West Indies 4,622,804
To Foreign West Indies 1,702,198
6,325,002
Deduct as proportion not sent to the new republics, say, 2,127,436
Remains 4,197,566
Total Exports from Great Britain to the new republics in 1824 £10,000,000

which was the presumed annual consumption in those republics of British and Irish manufacture and of foreign and colonial merchandize.

Estimated value of goods exported from all countries into the South American Republics.—

The value of the export trade from France to those republics, according to the Exposé of the French minister, of May 1825, was sixteen millions of francs, equal in sterling to £666,666