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( 83 ) The Viceroy's salary is only about 2,600l. a-year, but, by perquisites, his usual income amounts to between 15 and 20,000l.: these arise chiefly from the sale of offices, which are all-invested in the Viceroy, and of which he is said commonly to retain the third part of the annual profits. His office properly lasts only three years but he is generally continued until he has realized a handsome fortune, for it is usually the poor Grandees who, are appointed to this lucrative government. The present Viceroy is of the family of Valencia, and related to the throne of Portugal by the house of Braganza; he is a man of information, liberal and polite in his manners and apparently attached to the English nation. The vice-regal state is by no means equal to that