226 SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



Mining operations, it is believed, have never 

 been well conducted in Mexico, notwith- 

 standing which, more than one thousand six 

 hundred millions sterling have been issued 

 from its treasury. 



In my opinion nothing is now wanting, to 

 re-establish the prosperity of this fine country, 

 but an acknowledgment of its independence 

 by Great Britain. That it is for ever severed 

 from the mother-country I have not the 

 smallest doubt : but in its present state it may 

 yet linger for years, from the debility to which 

 it has been reduced by the revolution, un- 

 less fostered and cherished by our assistance ; 

 with this powerful aid, it would shortly rise, 

 and be again, in opulence and productiveness, 

 what it originally was, — in which the favour- 

 able result to Great Britain is scarcely to be 

 calculated. But I am entering into a subject 

 far beyond my depth ; — to the wisdom and vi- 

 gilance of his Majesty's ministers the country 



