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MEXICO IN 1827.
| Dollars. | ||
| Brought forward | 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 accidental circumstances, which compelled the Court of Spain to deviate, occasionally, from all ordinary rules; as was the case in 1807, 1808, and 1809, when foreign ships received licences to trade with Veracruz, and exported, in the short space of three years,—
