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SECTION V.

REFLECTIONS ON THE TRADE OF MEXICO.—ITS FORMER, AND PROBABLE FUTURE IMPORTANCE.—HOW AFFECTED HITHERTO BY REVOLUTION.

passing in review the great Public establishments by which the present Government is supported in Mexico, and examining the tenor of her New Laws, and the state of the Army, the Church, and the Revenue, it only remains for me to inquire into the commercial wants of the Community thus constituted, and to point out the influence which they are likely to exercise upon the manufacturing industry of the Old World.

It will not, I hope, be attributed to any affectation of modesty on my part, if I confess that I enter upon this task with great reluctance, and this, not merely because I feel myself incompetent to treat, properly, a subject, to which my earlier professional duties did not lead me to pay particular attention,