STATISTICS OF TRADE. gn 
TRADE WITH MEXICO FOR TWELVE YEARS. 
Imports from Mexico. Exports to Mexico. 
Year ending 30th Sept. 1829 - $5,026,761 . . $2,331,151 
1830 . . 5,235,241 . . 4,837,458 
*• " 1832 . 4,293,954 . . 3,467,541 
" " 1833 . . 5,452,818 . . 5,408,091 
" " 1834 - 8,066,068 - . 5,265,053 
" " 1835 . . 9,490,446 . . 9,029,221 
1836 . 5,615,819 . . 6,041,635 
1837 - . 5,654,002 . . 3,880,323 
" " 1838 . 3,127,153 . . 2,787,362 
" " 1839 - . 3,500,707 . . 2,164,097 
" " 1840 . 4,175,001 . . 2,515,341 
1841 - . 3,284,957 . . 2,036,620 
GOLD AND SILVER IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM MEXICO. 
Bullion. Specie. 
S.America ?indMexico in 1823 - f 121,970 . . $1,828,446 
From Mexico 1836 - . 68,546 . . 4,468,872 
1837 - 165,429 . . 4,405,549 
1838 - . 230,183 . . 2,459,243 
1840 . 100,976 . . 3,357,936 
1841 . . 51,184 . . 1,886,918 
By this you will observe, that, from having a trade worth upward of 
$9,000,000 in 1835, we have been reduced to a comparatively insignifi- 
cant commerce of $1,000,000, at the extreme, in 1843 ! If peace be 
restored in Mexico and mutual confidence reestablished, I can see no 
cause why our interests may not become replaced on their ancient basis, 
and a natural alliance firmly established between two sister Republics, 
who, in addition to a community of political tendencies, are the closest 
neighbors. 
England has striven for a two-fold object in Mexico. She has always 
looked to her debt from that country as the great means of affecting her 
commerce and manufactures, and ultimately, perhaps, of affording her a 
claim for its satisfaction in territory.* If our Government was always 
careful to have herself properly represented in that Republic by vigilant 
persons, whose eyes were constantly open to the encroachments of foreign 
Powers, and especially to the grasping tendencies of England ; and if, at 
the same time, it took occasion upon every fitting opportunity, to sustain 
the rights of our citizens by enforcing the reasonable and friendly ap- 
peals of its Representative ; I doubt not that, in a few years, Mexico 
would awake from the spell of her foreign delusions, and remember the 
hand that was first stretched forth to welcome her into the family of inde- 
pendent nations. She would have every reason to do so. The political 
feelings of the mass of her intelligent men are decidedly republican. 
Her own independence would be assured to her. The constant alliance 
* Vide appendix, No. 1, 
