4io NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Rates his accounts, amounted in ducats at4 s. ii d., to - - - - - 2,572,7 6 %

Expenfes of government - 1,242,992

Net free revenue 1,129,77 6

The total in fterling money - - L. 985,505

Expenfes of government - - 509,968

Net free revenue 277,755

But feveral articles appear to be omitted in this compu-tation , fuch as the duty on Ramped paper, leather, eccle-Raftical annats, &c. fo that the revenue of Peru may be wellfuppofed equal to that of Mexico .

In computing the expenfe of government in New Spain ,I may take that of Peru as a ftandard. There the annualellablifhment for defraying the charge of adminiftration ,exceeds one half of the revenue colleded, and there is noreafon for fuppofing it to be lefs in New Spain.

I have obtained a calculation of the total amount of thepublic revenue of Spain front America and the Philippines ,which, as the reader will perceive from the two laft articles,is more recent than any of the former.

Alcavalas ( Excife ) and Aduanas ( Cuf-toms ) , &c. in pefos fuertesDuties on gold and filverBull of Cruzada -Tribute of the Indians ...

By fale of quickfilver

Paper exported on the king’s account,and fold in the royal warehoul'esStamped paper, tobacco, and other frnallduties .....

Duty on coinage of, at the rate of onereal de la Plata for each mark

2,900,000

3,000,000

1,000,000

2,000,000

300,000

300,000

1,000,000

300,000