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I took my leave of all my friends the following days, and Sunday 17th being Shrove-Sunday, the Blacks, Mulattos, and Mesticos of Acapulco, after dinner ran races with above an hundred horses; which they perform'd so well, that I thought they far…

I took my leave of all my friends the following days, and Sunday 17th being Shrove-Sunday, the Blacks, Mulattos, and Mesticos of Acapulco, after dinner ran races with above an hundred horses; which they perform'd so well, that I thought they far…

I have not the least doubt, but that all the Provinces in America, would have purchased an Independency of trade from us, at a very large stipend or tax. –Was that tax equal to the mines of Mexico and Peru, it would do us no more good than those…

Unable to continue the war, though with the mines of Peru and Mexico, Spain felt the woeful mistake she had made, and, from the terror of Europe, became almost its pity.

It is this vast supply of Goods by the South Seas to the Kingdoms of Peru and Mexico, that has kept all the Silver and Gold from coming into the North, and occasioned the Total Ruin of Old Spain

It is this vast supply of Goods by the South Seas to the Kingdoms of Peru and Mexico, that has kept all the Silver and Gold from coming into the North, and occasioned the Total Ruin of Old Spain

The treasure of Mexico and Peru will now no longer flow into Spain, but will circulate through the continent where they have their source; and this circulation will give activity to every branch of trade, and vigour to every species of industry, in…

And it was after Spain, through rapine, and torture, and blood, had seized the treasures of Mexico and Peru, that she sunk into that state of weakness and depopulation, from which she is only yet beginning to emerge.