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Every one who has had an opp'ortunity of esti-
mating the extent, riches, comparative population,
and the rapid progress the Kingdom of Mexico, or
New Spain, has made, within the last forty years, in
all the branches of industry, must be sensible of•the
great influence so interesting a country will have on
the issue of the important question now agitating in
the discoveries of Columbus. At length the people
of Europe, after the turbulence of war, and alive to
their own interests, begin to turn their attention to.
wards the Western Hemisphere ; but whilst respect-
ing ail the other sections, information abounds among
us, of Mexico little is known, either in point of pub-
lic feeling or situation, so completely have the Spa-
niards, for the present, prevented the access of fo-
reigners, by being in possession. of all the coast situ-
ated on the Atlantic. On these two subjects, novel,
and in themselves interesting, some remarks cannot fail
to be acceptable, particularly as they relate to a coun-
try where, ere long, it is expected something import-
ant will take place.
In favour of liberty Mexico has already made
great sacrifices, notwithstanding the result has not
been so favourable as might have been hoped. The
same constancy that still prevails, in.spite of so many
reverses, nevertheless, proves her decided inclination
fbr independence ; this is the feeling by which all
the.classes are animated ; opportunity alone is want-
ing. A people, actuated by these principles, co-
vered with mourning, abounding in vietime, and
bathed in blood and tears, are ever mindful of their
aggressors, and intent on the wrongs. they have 'suf-
fered. Every object that surrounds them urges
them on to vengeance and redress. The vicissi-
tudes which have marked the efforts for freedom
in Mexico, have been the result of political cir-
cumstiinces, which, in their secluded situation, the
people could nether countaaet nor controul, but in
them indifference had no part. The Mexicans have
doneall it was in their poser to do, and by still main-
taining themselves in a state of Revolution, they have
not only proved what were their views and wishes, but
also rendered essential service to the common cause.
The opposite interests of a Society divided into rival
classes, by the nature and want of proportion in their
riches, for the moment presented great obstacles to
the combination requisite for a successful Revolution.
A general crisis was necessary, which by the force of '
the shock produced, might rouse and unite. The.,
horrid result of those first efforts, which began at a
distance from the capital, have produced this shock.
The proud conquerors, in the transports of their fury,
unable to distinguish between the indifferent, or those
who thought it best to temporize, in consequence of
imperious circumstances, confounded all parties, and
by indiscriminately attacking all classes, have reunited
the minds of the people, and created a common Cause,
which, on the first favourable opportunity, will be
brought into action. Hence has Mexico gained much.
The Nobles, Clergy, People, indigenes, the descen
dants of Europeans, in short, the rich and poor, are
now uniform in their sentiments, and the successes of
their brethren around them have inspired fresh hopes.
-The colossus of power which the oppressors boasted
they had raised up ins Mexico, was founded on ruins,
and now rests on the remnants of the legions of free-
dom alone. It is, therefore, insecure from the moment
when public feeling again displays itself, and tho
prospect of success is unfolded.
Hence, therefore, is the situation of Mexico ex-
tremely interesting, at a moment when the work of
freedom is so far advanced in the •other sections.
Mexico is destined to hold great influence over the
politicarevents of the two Continents. Her physical
situation presents incalculable advantages. Consi-
dered in respect of facility in communications and
relations with the rest of the civilized world, on the
one side bathed by the Pacific, and on the other by'
the Atlantic, and gifted with productions of the most
varied and precious kind, Mexico is destined to be-
come the emporium of commerce. Placed in the
centre of the New World, in the midst of other con-
federated States, with a territory larger than that of
the United States, arid nearly an equal population,
the empire of Montezuma appears destined to main-
tain the equilibrium,, and counterbalance the preten-
sions which may hereafter arise in the North and
South. An Independent Government resident in the
capital will be able to transmit its wishes in four
weeks to North or South America., in five to Europe,
and in six to Asia.
The extent of Mexico., independent of Guatemala,
taken from the 15. 38. degree of latitude, that is, ffom
Guatemala to the port of Sol Francisco, in New Ca-
lifornia, is equal to 600 leagues, on a width from the
Mo. Coloraolo .de .Texa,s to le coast of Sonora, from

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lE.to W. 365 leagues, which, added to Gageeixila, .
, constitutes an extent equal to one half of Spawth
I America. One half only of this immense country is
ieituated under the torrid zone, the greatest part of
which has a temperate climate, and the other enjoys
health and great fertility. The productions of every
other zone are here to be found, and require only
the labours of the cultivator. At the commence-
ment of the present century, Mexico, independent
of Guatemala, contained six millions 'of inhabi-
tants, divided into three races. In 1808, the po-
pulation was estimated at seven millions and a half,
so that now it may be supposed to approach nine,
though, perhaps, half a million has been destroyed
by the ravages of the Revolution. No country en
earth is more favourable to the propagation of the
human race.
The Spaniards, who shudder when they reflect on
the impossibility of any longer holdi::g a country
, nearly equal to their own in population and riches,
surpassing theirs in extent, and placed at an immense
distance front their scat of power, have rested their
dominion on moral bonds, which time and cilcura-
stanees have at length broken. The agricultural pro-
ducts of Mexico ,exteled 35 millions of dollars ; tithes.
three millions ; the produce of her mines, 2.0 ; and
yet all this, when industry was only half displayed:
flow soon would all this be doubled? The annual
movement of trade long ago ssas rated at GO mil-
lions of dollars, and the circulating medium at 67.
The tithes, in nine Bishoprics, contained in Mexico,
annually amount to 2,700,000 dollars, -without cal-
culating 24. per cent. on cochineal, sugar, &c. Mexi-.
can agriculture has made the most rapid progress,
but to what length might it not be carried ? That
section.was se interesting to the commerce of -Europe,
that in 1802; after the peace of Amiens, 48 millions
of dollars, in precious metals, were exported there-
from, as were nine of agricultural productions. ' The .
imports that year amounted to 21. millions, yet not
one third of the people ever wore European gcods.
A country so far advanced in all branches of in,
dustry, must naturally have a corresponding revenue.
That of Mexico is equal to the revenues of many ,
minor States in Europe. In Mexico the revenue has
seldom been less than 25,000,000 of dollars, and of
late it has enabled the Spaniards to keep up an army
of 25,000 men, besides bearing other burdens. , But
to what amount might it not be carried ? Even the
reited States do not poso_ss greater firutncial means.
The mines alone yield a revenue of 7,000,000, but
apply the steam-engine, and the amount would be
doubled in one year. The annual consumption of
tobacco is equal to 9,000,000 of dollars.
The clergy of Mexico are nut numerous, hut their
incomes are extremely disproportioned. The Arch-
bishop and three suffragans have 130,000 dollars per
annum, but some curates have only LOO! The fixed
property of the clergy does not exceed 5,000,000;
their revenue therefore is &lived from 45,000,000 of
charities and tithes. Their church plate is, indeed,
immense: tlitt of the churches of the capital of
Mexico, La Pueble, Valladolid,..and Guadalaxara,
amounts to 15,000,000. The ministers of worship
do not exceed 10,003, whereas the ordes'of the Fran-
ciscan Friars alone, in Spain,. contains 18,000. The
Mexican Nobility consists of 50 titles, and 100 entails,
many of them extremely rich. To them the greatest
part of the lands belong. Among the miners and
merchants, many have a capital of 5,000,000 of dol-
lars, and numbers 1,000,000.
In the midst of all these riches the people of Mexico
are the most miserable in the world, because all is
monopoly and disproportion, and because there is no
Government eapable of wielding the vast machine.
—But if this want of propoi tion in fortunes, in such
a country as Europe,' would present great obstacle,
to the success of independence, in Mexico it is the ree,
verse, as long as the object and form of Government
were better than the one now established, and conso-
nant to the wishes of all. No people can be happy
unless constitutionally governed, and the centre of
power is within themselves. To have to seek redress
at the distance of 5,000 miles is an absurdity. Of
this the people of Mexico are sensible: this they have..
been taught by long and sad experience. At the end
of the last century, they lent their King 17,000,000
of dollars, and during the late war between Spain and
France they contributed 50;000,000 more; after all,
has their situation been bcetered? No; they are now
governed as they were 300 years ago. The mind re-
volts at the idea of what is passieg in Mexico, a rich
and beautiful country, containing twelve magnificent
cities, in many respects equal to most in Europe, ac-
cording to the confession of modern travellers, and a
race of people as fine as any on earth. Corruption
there has made no ravages. Who, when he remem-
bers the history of this unfortunate country—when
he reads the acts of Cortes and the sufferings of Mon-
tezuma and his people, would not rejoice to see
Mexico happy, governed by wise and constitutional
laws-=-independent, in short, and placed in a situa-.
tion to enjoy and improve those capabilities with
which a beneficent PROVIDENCE has gifted this chosen
portion of the globe, not that they might be neglected
land rendered of no avail? Is rot this a theme ad-
dressed to the heart. of every man? —is it not a. sub,.
ject worthy of the consideration cf every Patriot, of
every Statesman, in times like the present?
We complain of distress, we hear the clamours and
see the distress of our Manufacturess, lent in the pre-
sent state of all South America, we do not remember
that the gteatest portion of consutnption is cut off
or lies dormant, because the means of payment are
desolated or exhausted, and that this has now been
the case for nine years. The loss to Europe, in.thie
time, has been immense. The working of the Ones
and the labours of agriculture have been suspended ;
the effects are now felt sshere the usual supplies have
been withheld. At the close of a long and expensive*
war, a benign PROVIDENCE seemed to open to tio.
rope the resources of South America as a remedy,
as a panacea—hitherto they.have been, as it.wew
disregarded. '

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