75-1 



SPAIN. 



Steamers. 



3 Bidewheel steamers, carrying eacl 10 Guns. 



^ " " " ' 6 " 



.1 41 4; 44 from o to 6 " 

 14 " " ' " " 1 to 5 " 



6 " transports " " 2 " 



83 sidewheel steamers. 



1 screw ship of the line, currying 100 Guns. 



1-2 



frigates, carrying each from 37 to 51 



corvettes, " " " 3 to 4 



schooners. " 2 to 4 



transports, " 2 



gunboats, " 1 



94 screw steamers. 



There were, besides, in the course of con- 

 struction, the following screw steamers : 



2 iron-clad ships of the line, carrying together 82 Guns. 



10 " frigates, " each 40 " 



5 frigates, " 51 " 



11 schooners, 



6 gunboats, 2 " 



The personnel of the marine was 1,121 offi- 

 cers, 189 accountants, 128 mechanics, 13,750 

 sailors, 8,200 marine soldiers, and 539 guards 

 of arsenals. 



The imports in 1800 amounted to 1,483,313,- 

 498 reals, the exports to 1,098,203,445 reals. 

 The arrivals in Spanish ports were, in 1860, 

 10,127 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 

 1,351,988 ; the departures, 9,097 vessels, with 

 an aggregate tonnage of 1 ,244,520. But this 

 did not include the coasting trade, in which 

 the arrivals were 48,932 vessels, with a ton- 

 nage of 1,895,721 ; and the departures, 48,812, 

 with a tonnage of 1,879,827. 



In March the Spanish Government became 

 involved in a serious difficulty with Peru ; for 

 the history of which see PERU. 



The war of Spain against the people of San 

 Domingo took a turn very unfavorable to the 

 Spaniards. Not only were her troops swept 

 away by the murderous climate and the bravery 

 of the Dominicans, but the financial embarrass- 

 ment of the Spanish Government became so 

 great, that Gen. Narvaez, who had been 

 charged by the Queen with forming a new 

 ministry, declared, in union witli all his col- 

 leagues, that San Domingo must be given up, 

 and insisted that this must be announced in 

 the Queen's speech on opening the Cortes. 

 The Qaeen stood out against this decision, and 

 the new ministers resigned in a body ; but the 

 attempt to form a new ministry which would 

 propose the continuance of the war against 

 San Domingo failed, and the Queen had to 

 yield to the demand of Narvaez. The Queen's 

 speech was silent on the Dominican question ; 

 but a few days after the opening of the Cortes 

 the ministry brought in the following address : 



To the Cortes : 



In the old Spanish island, the first land of the 

 Western world, which the great Christopher Colum- 

 bus considered worthy of an important establish- 

 ment, in that great Antilles where many years after 

 its separation from the metropolis not a drop of 

 Spanish blood was shed, now flows that generous 

 blood, and the rigors of a pestiferous climate aiding 

 the enemy make terrible ravages in the ranks of our 

 valiant soldiers. 



This sanguinary struggle, which is also attended 

 by the disadvantage of uselessly and profitlessly ex- 

 pending the public treasure and consuming the 

 abundant products of our colonial possessions, wag 

 not provoked by the attempts of anterior Cabinets to 

 carry out an ambitious war of conquest, so opposed 

 to the rational, jusr, pacific, and disinterested policy 

 so long observed by Spain. Neither did it originate 

 from me necessity of repelling foreign aggressions, 

 of opposing force to force at any cost, considering 

 only the defence of insulted honor ; such was not 

 the case; this cruel struggle commenced the day 

 following that on which Her Majesty's Government 

 of that day believed that all the inhabitants of the 

 Dominican Kepublic asked and solicited with impa- 

 tient desire to be reincorporated with the Spanish 

 nation, their ancient mother, and to form one of its 

 provinces, aspiring to the happiness enjoyed by those 

 of Cuba and Puerto Rico. 



Such a desire might not be certain, but it was 

 very probable. The Government, actuated by these 

 sentiments, had faith in that which appeared to 

 inspire the Dominicans, and therefore accepted their 

 votes, and counselled Her Majesty to effect the an- 

 nexation which this State professed so ardently to 

 desire. 



On this account the Ministers, in a solemn docu- 

 ment, described this event as auspicious, highly hon- 

 orable for Spain, and one not often encountered in 

 the annals of peoples. For this, also, after referring 

 to the lamentable history of San Domingo since the 

 proclamation of its independence in 1821, following 

 the example of other provinces of the American con- 

 tinent after drawing the sad picture of such pro- 

 longed misfortune, of a state of things in which the 

 sources of public and private wealth were exhausted, 

 independence completely lost for want of strength to 

 maintain it, liberty no less lost through the insecur- 

 ity felt by the citizens and the continual agitations 

 of the republic the Ministers invoked every senti- 

 ment of justice, humanity, and honor in counselling 

 the annexation of this unhappy island. They be- 

 lieved such a measure was all the more desirable, 

 considering the circumstances and character of its 

 inhabitants, the fertility of its soil, and the strong 

 attachment which the people, after past excesses, 

 whereby they had been terribly disabused, professed 

 toward their ancient metropolis. 



The annexation was thus founded upon two most 

 noble, just, and weighty reasons. The first was the 

 right inherent in the unanimous will of a people, 

 a right not disputed, and previously affirmed by the 

 general assent of the nations of Europe and America 

 111 a recent case. The second was the duty of human- 

 ity, of compassion toward the unfortunate people 

 who sought favor and mercy, overwhelmed as they 

 were by a sea of disasters and misfortune. No other 

 right supported nor supports the Spanish Govern- 

 ment in holding the Spanish portion of the island of 

 San Domingo ; neither the right of revindication nor 

 the right of conquest, both being opposed to the 

 policy of the Government, the interests of the people, 

 and the friendly relations which Spain has always 

 endeavored to maintain with the independent States 

 of America, which once formed part of the immense 

 territory protected by the tutelary mantle of the 

 Kings of Spain. 



But such flattering hopes soon disappeared ; fatal 

 symptoms very soon manifested themselves that the 

 annexation had not that spontaneous and unanimous 

 support upon which it was based. Nevertheless, it 

 was the duty of the Government to ascertain with 

 certainty whether those violent protests, several 

 times repeated, did not proceed only from a discon- 

 tented few, but were the expression of the feelings of 

 a people who rejected the legitimate power they had 

 invoked in a time of trouble and distress. The agi- 

 tation increased and gained towns and frontiers, 

 extending over the whole of the territory, and at thia 

 day the Spanish portion of the island of San Domiu- 



