. Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain [microform] : containing researches relative to the geography of Mexico, the extent of its surface and its political division into intendancies, the physical aspect of the country, the population, the state of agriculture and manufacturing and commercial industry, the canals projected between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean, the crown revenues, the quantity of the precious metals which have flowed from Mexico into Europe and Asia, since the discovery of the new continent and the military defence of New Spain. Agriculture; Mines and mineral resourc
. Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain [microform] : containing researches relative to the geography of Mexico, the extent of its surface and its political division into intendancies, the physical aspect of the country, the population, the state of agriculture and manufacturing and commercial industry, the canals projected between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean, the crown revenues, the quantity of the precious metals which have flowed from Mexico into Europe and Asia, since the discovery of the new continent and the military defence of New Spain. Agriculture; Mines and mineral resources; Agriculture; Mines et ressources minières. CHAP. Kl^DOM OF NEW SPAIN. 449 in want of money. What Europe loses in the balance of trade with China, is spread over a g^eat population; a considerable quan- tity of gold and silver is converted into wire and leaf^; the accumulation of specie is very slow, and has scarcely begun to be felt within these twenty years, in an increase of the price of commoditiesf. There remains to be considered a third, way for the exportation of the precious me- tals from Europe into Asia, that which is car- ried by the Russian trade. We learn by the tables published by the Count de Romanzof» that the importation from China, into the government of Irkoutsk, was, from 1802 to 1805, at an average, to the amount of 2,035,900 roubles in tea, and 2,434,400 in cotton. In general^ the balance of trade of Russia with China, Bucharia, the country Khiva, and the banks of the Rirghiskaisaks, was in favour of the Russian Empire, during the same period, more than 4,216,000 roubles per annum];. We see from these data, that in estimating the contraband at a sixth, the exportation of specie, by means of the Cas- * Macartney^ vol. iv. p. 286. t Arocortaey, vol. iM. p. 1Q5; vol iv. p^ 9Sl. X TahUoM, du Cmttmncf th fJ^nyirf tk Ruttk, tnm» latedbyM. Pfeiffer, 1808, ikm. Olnam^k Nord Litteraire, 1799, ae. 7, p 909. VOL. III. 2 O I fiiit {\ ''â '&qu
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