334: 



humboldt's cuba. 



By the returns of the general treasury, the public 

 revenue of the district of Havana alone, in 1822, 

 amounted to $4,311,862; of which $3,127,918 was 

 from customs, $601,898 from items of direct income, 

 as lottery, tithes, &c, and $581,978 drafts upon the 

 fund of the Consulado and deposits. 



The expenditures during the same year were, for 

 Cuba, $2,732,738, and for appropriations to maintain 

 the struggle with the continental colonies, $1,362,062. 

 In the first class we find $1,355,798 for the .land 

 forces charged with the defence of Havana, and 

 contiguous towns, and, $618,908 for the navy sta- 

 tioned at Havana. In the second class of expendi- 

 tures, foreign to the local administration, we find 

 $1,115,672 paid to 4,234 ofiicers and soldiers, who, 

 after having evacuated Mexico, Colombia, and other 

 points of the the continent formerly under Spanish 

 dominion, have passed through Havana on their 

 return to Spain ; and $164,000 expended in the 

 defence of the castle of San Juan de Ulua. 



Don Claudio Martinez de Pinillos, intendant of 

 the island of Cuba, in his notes accompanying the 

 report of the general treasury for 1822, makes the 

 following observations : " If to the extraordinary 

 expenditure of $1,362,022 for matters relating to the 

 general interests of the Spanish monarchy, we add, 

 on one hand, the greater part of the $648,908 appro- 



