Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-03-18

amounted TO nearly <,oSS,S0F' 5 siN $50
| the other productions OF the province, 20
t1.o7e, s77 pias,ers. Thevalue OF sll-,sas e =
| ports consequently amounted 70 1888, S8z.
l The goods exported consisted OF 875,59o
raw OK. hides 43,752shorse.hides rs ,4jo
]. sl;ns Of a finer sort; $4,000 arrobas OF
melted tallow; III arrobas OF Vicunaa
wool ; 1854 arrobas of common wool; ana
ee1 arrobas of the wool Ut the Guanaco,
or cameI-sheep 1880 goose wings;
a451 900 OK horns 1898 cwt. OF copper
{ q cws. of tin; 2541 tanned hides; s22 DO.
zen Of manufactured sheep-skns; 2l23
cwt. of sailed beef and l85 cws.oi sai'ea
pork.
5. Literary l9ag2s;;ne, jar. 1907. /.
Resides these vessels Ind cafgoes en-
ployeG in the European trade, lfieEe ar
rived two ships from the Havarna win
brandy, sugar, &C. TO the amount OF one
hundred aud twenty three thousand hYe
( hundred aud sixty two pais.ers, and In the
wear fourteen ships sailed from boe-
nos Ayres TO the HAVANA with cargoes
4amountisC to one hundred and sixty thou.
sand one hundred and ten pias,ers. 4 Wo
ships from Lima and Cuayaquil Imported
. TO the amount of fifty Thousand one hun.
edred and fifty four piasters. The value OF
THE exports to the same places amounted
10 81. $50 masters. In the same year one
thousand ehree hundred and fifty ntgro
slaves were imported ina Spanish and hive
tofeign ships
From ,hit. concise sketch Of the trade OF
>Beenos Ayrss in the year 1895, which
is the only authentic account that We pos.
.ess Ct the commerce of coy OF the Spa
nish possessions in Soush America, the
reader will at once perceive the wide
scope which they lay open TO commerce,
and the artificial shaekle which are icipos.
ed uponi,s exer,ions. He will see',hat 8
years ago the,amounl Of exports from Bue.
mos Ayres alone amounted TO FIVE millions
two hundred and eighty six thousand one
hundred and fortytwo Piasters the pas
ter being coin Of about FIVE shillings Ia
value. He will seq also that The whole ezttr-
taton was confined to Spanish bottoms
alone; all other vessels being excluded
at that time from Buenos Ayres, unless
they went freighted with negro slaves &
hardware, We leave 1t to'our readers
therefore TO calculate what is the whole a.
mount of the exports from all the Spanish
colonies of America. and VIVA, that amount
would naturally be. if the agrioulluralisis
instead of being ruledSb By prl,ilrdged
clergy and-,emporarv Viceroy, was placed
runder the benign auspices OF free and
Sindependent government if commerce ie>
stead of being contreuled by the monopo-
" Of the Spanish merchants, was as tree
as the winds Of heaven.
Our imagination is ready to take 6reyat
the contemplation OF scene OF things,
Witt. time is destined to realise, land which
every friend 10 freedom must wish to see
accomplished. We compare the situation
,that we were placed in when we were Rri-
fish colonies, with that which we now en-
iov as tree aud independent states We
cast our eyes upon the oppressed and pa
pulous provinces Of Spain, and we demand
why they also should not become c.
.euslly free and independent. The rights
OF man are noe to be dehned by geogra-
phioat b SUMMARIZES. Whence does Spain
derive its privilege of ruling the soil OF
! South America or how.,s .his privlledge
fmorc sacred than the priylledge of South
America te rule hel <We do not believe
t that the inhabitants OF South America are
as we'll qualified for the enjoygneu, Of
free governmenras were the people Of
the BRUSH colonies because we do not
consider them SO generally enlightened,
| SIll we cannot presume TO doubs that they
/ are fitted fer the establishment Of al indie.
/ pendeu, government, and that the experi
/ euce ola few years viii quality them for
| a government of freedom. II is under the
wish every success 20 the enterprise of g.
neral Miranda, fit be such one as our