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London, England, 1822-01-29 00:00:00

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• - The latesqmountufrons the Pacific give an alarming statement
- 4111kelMniageloeri that are apprehended by those who have
-‘ in ffitapeculations to Peru. It appears,jhat
no, sooner was an opening supposed to be secured on the shoal of
the Pacific, than upwards of forty vessels, each having on board
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worth from £50,000 to £60,000 sterling, were instantly
fitted out, and that in a few months property was shipped thither
to the amount of four or five millions sterling. how the owners
of this property could expect to find immediate purchasers for
goods to this amount, in such a country as Peru, partly block-
aded, involved in warfare, with its agriculture and trade sue-
pended, and the communications of the interior with the capital
eat off almost elceeds credibility ; as it is hot only far beyond
the demands which the limited population of Peru calls for, but
• would require all the gold and silver coined at Lima during a
`period of at least four years to pay for such a stock of goods.
The total population of Peru, according to the last census,
was 1,076,997 persons, distributed in 977 towns, of which four-
teen are cities ; and a great proportion of them are Indians and
coloured people, who hbve never worn pitything European.. The
total produce of the agriculture, manufactures, and sale of cattle,
• does not annually exceed 7,554,495 dollars, of which 2,400,000
alone are exported. The fast is, that the smallness of the popu-
lation of Peru being out of all proportion with the extent of ter-
ritory, it follows, that as the country nearly suffices for the con.
sumption of its own territorial productions, it bas little else than
silver to exchange; and the real wants of the people being few,
their Import trade muss principally consist of luxuries. Their
even manufactures neat,' suffice for the supplies of clothing for
the common people of the interior, and only a few coarse goods
enter into the list of their demands, which thus become confined
to iron, articles of dress, &c.
The importations into Spanish America were formerly com-
posed of selections of goods collected from different countries in
commercial relation with Spain. England furnished them with
mixed serges, long ell.broad prints and chintz, long yard ditto,
gingham, East India ditto, silk hose, baize, dyed and white,
cotton base, cloth,, hats, tin in sheets, hardware, wrought
pewter, black bornbazeens white ditto, fustian., Scotch and
Irish linens, manufactured lead, musk, amber, civet, &c. '
France supplied them with velvets, brocades, satins, Rhoen
linens, ditto biattearha, floretes, and cofrrs, cambric', keetting,
dowlas, crias, tickluiburgs, oznaburgs, combs, jewels, haber.
da-hery, gold and silver lace, thread lace, &c.
ltamburgh sent them Silesia linens, platillas, estopillas, checks,
bed ticking, napkins, table linen, toys, manufactured brass, bees-
vax, &c.
Ilolland shipped them with pepper, cloves, cinnamon, nut-
megs, serges, Leyden silks, brown holland*, striped linens, threads,
sail-cloth, cables and rigging, pitch and tar, dimities, velvets
and plusher, &c.
Italy served them with ribbons, flowered silks, Naples silks,
shags, velvets, stockings, paper, &c.
Spain herself prepard almonds, allum, brimstone, soap, anni-
seed, coarse silks, saffron, wines, oil, figs, wax, and hardware,
front Biscay, quicksilver, &c.
The trade of Peru may be considered in three lights, viz.
that carried on with the mother country, with the different ports
of the South Seas, and with the ports of its own jurisdiction
ar.d the interior. The value of the-e respective branches will
be more pLinly and fully evinced in their amount, by the fol-
lowing staenictit, which includes five years, commencing from
178; to 1769:
Trade with
Total.
interior.
1,445,8.53 078,895,916 7
1,859,820 6.66,662,957 3

Trade with Trade with
Spain its in the
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liv)S. SCIS.
Imports ...42,699,51.5 68,350,;49 6
EXpUrLii ..:35,979,3,9 6{7,81:5,776 ii

Balance agst
Lana

6,119,973

526,973

The exports And iuyorts euotrasted with those of from 1790
to 1794:
Imports. I Exports.
From 1715 to 1789...142,099,313 635,979,339
From 1;J0 to 1794 —1129,091,1190 5:31,869,500

Difference ..1

!15,008,023 11

1-1
5,584,032 0112,230,979 0

4,089,859

Balance.
6,119,973 7
2,798,210 1

3,621,763 6

The importations from Europe to Peru, or the wants of the
country in time of peace, are estimated at ten millions of dollars
per annum, and chiefly consist of dry gods, quicksilver, iron in
bar, nails, Silesian and German linens, crusade bulls, paper,
wax, looking glasses, cut glass, silks, hats, fine cloths, laces, tapes,
thread, tin in boxes, pitch, tar, &c.
In exchange for these articles, Peru returns silver coined and
in wedges, gold ditto, c•ipper, woods for ship building, chiefly
brought from Guayaquil, Pal Saute, or holy wood, trom the
Andes, bark, tin in blocks, cocoa from Guayaquil, cocoa greadr,
s..gar, Vicunia wool, medicinal herbs, gums, balsams and resins,
skins of different kinds, cheeps wool, alpaca wool, indigo, hides,
cotton, &c.

As the territorial prod:v.ll9ns of Peru are greatly confined,
at:d two principal export articles are obtained-trom other parts,
immediately within herown jurisdiction, viz.—copper from
Chili, and cocoa from Guayaquil, it will no; be improper to de-
monstrate in what manner aht: is able to lug fur the articles
brought to fur.
Amount of coined money, silver in bars, jewels, &c.

say - - - - - - 5,000,000
Amount of her own territorial productions, and arti-
cle. Jhuit •ti by exchange - - - 4,000,006
Gained by her trade with the neighbouring parts of
the Continent - -
Gained by her muleteers, and other means of carriage
Irons neighbouring parts of the tame Continent, and
coa.ti-is trade greatly in her favour

800,000

600,000

Dollars 10,400,000

Many causes oombine to render the trade of Peru thus li-
mited, and the aggregate amount of her territorial productions
small. A principal part of the funds of her capitalists are em-
ployed in mining, an occupation which has always met Wilk a
decided preference to trade or agriculture, which branches prin-
cipally centre in the hands of the Spaniards resident in the coun-
try. The want of negroes to work the lands, and the solitary
and apathised mode of life of the Indiana in general, also render
this drawback the more sensible, and greatly diminish that sur-
plus of territorial productions which Peru might otherwise threw
into the scale of her active traffic.

The commerce of the city of Lima has been considerably re-
scinded of late years by Al'ica being declared a privileged port,
from whence the opulent provinces of Cusco and Arequipa draw
their European supplies, as well as those confining CM Buenos
Ayres. This regulation, though serviceable to the State, has de-
prived the capital of a great circulation of active trade, which
Is now less monopolized.

East India goo.db, till lately, were brought to Peru by ships
employed by the Philippine Company from Manilla, and sold
for their account through the hands of factors. They can there-
fore be supplied with these mucks cheaper than could be sent
them from any other country, by availing themselves of a direct
trade.

Besides the trade above described, Peru annually sends tol
B•imiss Ayres, by the way of Arequipa, 1,300,475 dollars in
brandies, wine, oil, cotton, axi, or Indian pepper, grain, sugar,
Indigo, Quito cloths, prepared chocolate, &c. and receives Irons
Buenos Ayres 389,2E0 dollars in cattle and dried meat, tallow,
wool, cocoa, and tin in blocks, &c. leaving a balance in her fa-
vour of 911,215 dollars, bi.sidea the profit arising out of the con-
veyance of the goods.
Peru also sends to Buenos Ayres, by the way of Cusco,
734,505 dollars, in articles similar to those abovementioned, and
in return receives 475,530 dollars, leaving a balance in her fa-
vour of 258,975 dollars.

Peru also carries on a trade with Chili in sugar, country cloths,
indigo, rice, &c. to the amount of 456,817 dollars, and receives
back wheat, tallow, copper, Paraguay tea, &c. to the amount
of 665,800 dollars; thus leaving a balance in favour of Chili of
207,482 dollars.
Peru also sends to the Islands of Chiloe 50,000 dollars in bran-
dies, and receives back in lumber, ponchos, &c. 51,200 dollars.
She also sends to Guatemala wines, brandies, &c. to the
amount of 28,358 dollars; and receives back ISAAC* dollars, in
pitch, &c.

TI e American Papers very recently gave an ac-
count of the shock of an earthquake at Salem, in
Massachusetts. It has been since ascertained that
'quake was not a natural one, but was occa-
,y the blowing up of a powder-snill, belong-
Messrs. Tileston, Whipple, and Hall, and si-
Aiwa 28 miles N.E. of Boston, One man lost
ly the explosion.

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