CHAPTER XII. 

 1734—1760. 



VIZARRON AND EGUIARRETA VICEROY EVENTLESS GOVERNMENT. 



SALAZAR VICEROY COLONIAL FEARS. FUEN-CLARA VICE- 

 ROY GALEON LOST. MEXICO UNDER REVILLA-GIGEDO I. 



FERDINAND VI. INDIANS TAXES COLONIES IN THE NORTH. 



FAMINE MINES AT BOLANOS HORCASITAS. CHARAC- 

 TER OF REVILLA-GIGEDO. VILLALON VICEROY. CHARLES 



III. CAGIGAL VICEROY. 



Don Juan Antonio de Vizarron y Eguiarreta, 

 Archbishop of Mexico. 

 XXXVIII. Viceroy of New Spain. 

 1734 _ 1740. 



This viceroy who governed New Spain from the year 1734 to 

 1740, passed an uneventful reign, so far as the internal peace and 

 order of the colony were concerned. War was declared, during 

 this period, between France and Spain, but Mexico escaped from 

 all its desolating consequences, and nothing appears to have dis- 

 turbed the quiet of colonial life but a severe epidemic, which is 

 said to have resembled the yellow fever, and carried off many thou- 

 sands of the inhabitants, especially in the north-eastern section 

 of the territory. The viceroy was naturally solicitous to follow the 

 example of his predecessors, in preventing the encroachments of 

 the French on the northern indefinite boundaries of New Spain, 

 and took measures to support the feeble garrisons and colonies 

 which were the only representatives of Spanish rights and power 

 in that remote quarter. 



