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MEXICO. the political change which it had undergone ; or of adapting the new system of Finance to the wants which so different an order of things was calculated to create. He saw nothing at first but a Deficit, the amount of which filled him with ap- prehensions ; and he discovered no means of avoiding this Deficit, but by a return to the old system of monopolies, high duties, and a strict limitation of trade. A short analysis of the Report of January, 1825, will place Mr. Esteva's views in the clearest possible light. The first and second parts of this Report, contained an estimate of the gross receipts of the twelvemonth which was about to commence, calculated upon those of the two pre- ceding years. These were rated at 10,690,608 dollars, from which, how- ever, were to be deducted 1,317,543 dollars, being the avail- able amount then remaining of Goldschmidfs Loan ; so that the whole produce of the Mexican Revenue, in 1825, was not supposed to exceed 9,373,065 dollars. Against this, an expenditure of nearly Eighteen millions of dollars, (without including the interest upon the Foreign Loans,) was set by the third part of the Report, viz. : — ■ Dollars. Expense of collecting Revenue, Salaries, &c. . . . . . 920,235 7 9 Ministry of Interior, and Foreign Affairs . 105,737 Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Af- fairs 77,220 Ministry of War .... 12,000,000 Ministry of the Navy . . . 2,934,533 4 Ministry of Finance . . • 1,083,143 1 Credits against Government, payable in 1825 865,804 7 8 Total 17,986,674 4 8 t2