Trade With The Rio De LA ...
*, CV,?t maul from, BuenosiAkres has bCoult i copy of t il drawn Up Wy a committee of Britilf merchants, p w~Swt and present stWte oif the tinde`nvith the Rio de Vtsj> ' anhich supplIes:romom comTnercialinformatio t of a kvlgh1y~toresting naturm- The jmpraveitnt of the trade of (9uojps Pyres, since its,separaticu from Spain, has been very'wuKnarkable, and ffnislhes a strong proof of the advan- tapge~ g~Teat by dit e ireountry` ir stLishi)ig its independ- eD.ce. 'n ti2e year 1796, the-exportsfrom. Cadis to Buenos Ayres amoutted to 2,800,000 dollars, and the imports to Cadiz fromn Bueno; Ayiem to s,ooo,ooo dollars, which, as Spain possessed an entire -xirtnopoly, may be stated as t1- whole trade of tbat Viceroyalty. In the year 1822, aecordin- to-the&eturng of tbe Custom-house of Buenos Avres, tae itport& are estimated at I1,000,000 dollars, of which nearly one half were received from Great Britain ditrect In thesame year the exports from Buenos Ayres a:Ve estimaI lat 6,70,000 dollars. This difference in the C 2ouut I-- the imports and exports from that country is cnplained. by the circumstance, that the actual quantities 'hr,%e always exceeded these returns, as they have at all ti'es been shqrt manifested in order to save dutics. In the nmhupt of specie in yarticular said to be exported, no re- linc. is tifbe placec on these returns, as the article has r)metime been wholly prohibited, and was then smuggled oftf the revenue of Bnenos Avrea in 1822 is stated at 1,900,000 dollars, and which is said to be raised on a scale of ,duties comparatively maoderate. The system of gigh duties was wisely abandoied. by the Government on PWoniittof the temptation it created to smuggling. The 53!reae:ill the trade.ofBueno* Ayres will appear far mors Olthing when k is stated, that *under that namBe was re- turn.et to the Spanish f6oyernineiit the whole trade with Par*aiay and Upper Peru, which is now, from political cauEa, -vholly suspsnd-ed. WVhen those causes cease to operate, whicb the progress. of events appears to' indicate wvill veKy shortly h4ppep, the returns must inevitably be- come IY greater. It is estimated by the Committee, that, 2M&ifT tcolonil Hystem existed, all manufactured and $ier.-E3uropean goodls sold for three times their present ]IfuA, while the produce of the country was given in 3ClI1'g3efqr a fourila pari of what is now paid for it. ?Rhfe_-,eceding appear to us the most striking facts of a ge- l eral il'ature conprifteil in this report, of' which our limits will uat permit us to give a mora extended notice; but the vhole of the details possess considerable interest for per- Sons engagedl in commere.:with that part of the world. , TIRADE FWITL TIZE R2YO DE LA PLATA.