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MEXICO. To this I should add fourteen millions, as the increase during the seven following years, when the average exports were, according to my calculation, twenty-two millions of dollars, and the average produce twenty-four millions ; thus making the whole circulating medium, in 1810, amount to about Seventy-two millions of dollars. The Mines, in fifteen years, appear to have produced 153,276,972, (according to the Mint returns,) or 165,000,000, if the average, which I have taken, of eleven millions annu- ally, be correct ; and these, with the seventy-two millions already in existence, give a total of two hundred and thirty- seven millions of dollars. The exact amount of the exports in specie, it is impossible to ascertain ; but, during a period of disorder, which, at one time, amounted to almost total disorganization, the allowance made for unregistered exports must be very large. Respecting those of which an account was kept, I have ob- tained the only accurate information now to be procured, viz. extracts from the Registers of the Custom Houses of Vera- cruz, Acapulco, San Bias, and Mazatlan, for which I am in- debted to His Majesty's Consular Agents at those Ports. By these it appears, that the Commercial exports of Vera- cruz, from 1811 to 1820, were, Dollars. To other Spanish Colonies . . 14,302,701 To Foreign Countries direct . . 434,608 To Spain . . . . . 53,553,897 The Exports of - 1821 were Total 68,291,206 J Dollars . . 8,353,178 I Wrought Silver . 67,488 Carried forward 76,711,872