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MEXICO IN 1827.
Of the Imports, four-tenths were the produce or manufactures of Old Spain and her Colonies, and the remaining six-tenths were the manufactures of other European countries, imported indirectly through Spain, or Cuba, the returns for which were made through the same medium.[1]
To the annual average amount of Imports and Exports given above, must be added 9,840,667 dollars three reals; viz., 8,340,667 dollars, three reals, which I find to be the average value (on a term of thirteen years, from 1779 to 1791,) of the precious metals exported on the King's account; and 1,500,000 dollars, which on the lowest possible computation, must have been the value of the quicksilver, and paper, introduced for the mines, and the Royal Monopoly of Tobacco.
| Dollars. | Reals. | |
| The two together, give, on the whole twenty-five years | 226,016,684 | 3 |
| which, added to the Imports and Exports of the Balanza General | 538,640,163 | 0 |
| give | 764,656,847 | 3 |
- ↑ I have borrowed the whole of this analysis of the Balanza de Comercio, (page 416,) from a very able report on the Veracruz trade, drawn up by Mr. Mackenzie, who was His Majesty's Consul there in 1823 and 1824, and whose investigations, with regard to that period, I have taken advantage of throughout this Section.
