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dollars, of which nearly one half were received from
Great Britain direct. In the same year the exports from.
Buenos Ayres, are estimated at 6,700,000 dollars. This
difference in the amount of the imports and exports from
that country, is explained by the circumstance, that the
actual quantities have always exceeded these returns,
as they have at all times been short manifested in order
to save duties. In the amount of specie in particular,
said to be exported, no reliance is to be placed on these
returns, as the article has sometimes been wholly pro-
hibited, and then smuggled off. The revenue of
Buenos Ayres in 1822, is stated at 1,900,000 dollars,
and which is said to be raised on a scale of duties com-
paratively moderate. The system of high duties was
wisely abandoned by the Government on account of
the temptation it created to smuggling. The increase
in the trade of Buenos Ayres writ appear far more
striking when it is stated that under that name was re-
turned to the Spanish Government the whole trade with
Paraguay and-Upper Peru, which is' now, from politi-
cal causes, wholly suspended. When those causes cease
to operate, which the progress of events appears to in-
dicate will very shortly happen, the returns must in-
evitably become greater. It is estimated by the Com-
mittee, that, while the Colonial system existed, all ma-
nofactored and other Europeen goods sold for three
times their present prices, while the produce of the
country was given in exchange for a fourth part of
what is now paid for it. The preceding appear to us
the most striking facts of a general nature comprised
in this report, of which our limits will not permit us to
give a more extended notice ; but the whole of the de-
tails possess considerable interest for persons engaged in
commerce with that tart of the world.
BOGOTA, SEPTEMBER 18, 1824.
SlR—The prohibitory laws and decrees of Colombia
against the importation of certain articles into this
conntrt appearing to be imperfectly understood, and
some British merchants having recently fallen into a
misconception of the one relative to sugar—probably
from its not being sufficiently explicit—l beg to trans•
snit to you a list of the articles prohibited, with the re-
spective penalties attached to the violation of the laws,
for the guidance of merchants embarking in the trade
of Colombia, and for the purpose of obviating the re-
currence of a misunderstanding, nut of which, under
the most favourable circumstances, it is diffiCult for
persons to disembarrass themselves, without consider-
able delay and inconvenience.
(Signed) JAMES HENDERSON,
His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General.
John Bennett, Esq. Secretary of Lloyd's.
ARTICLES PROHIBITBD.
By law of the Congress of September 27, 1821 :
Coffee,Cocoa, Indigo, °Sugars, Molasses— under penalty
of the confiscation of the vessel and cargo.
My decree of the executive of January 20, 1823 :—All
productions and manufactures of Spain, or her depen-
dencies—after being warned off, under penalty of the
condemnation of the vessel, and destruction of the cargo.
By a law of the Congress of July 4, 1823 :—Gun-
powder, tobacco,whether in leaf, segars, snuff, or rappee
—under penalty of the confiscation of the articles, and
the vessel., or the whole or any other part of the cargo,
if belonging to the proprietor of the contraband articles.
By law of the Congress of August 2, 1823 :—Foreign
spirits, extracted from the sugar cane, or their com-i
pounds—under penalty of the confiscation of the vessel
and spirits.
By law of the Congress of July 8, 1824 :—Foreign salt
—under penalty of confiscation of the vessel and salt.
• The tern " sugar" is here considered to imply the raw mats
nil, as weir as every denomination of refined sugars.