320 MEXICO, 
increase the quantity of bribery and corruption, but would not add to the 
revenue a sum equal to their pay !" 
NATIONAL DEBT. 
The national debt of Mexico is one of very considerable importance, 
and may be divided into the two great classes of Foreign and Internal 
debt. 
The Internal Debt amounts to #18,550,000 ; and in 1841 the customs 
were mortgaged to pay this sum, in the following subdivisions : 
17 per cent. 
of the Customs devoted 
to a debt of - . - 
$2,040,000 
15 
ki « 
M • 
410,000 
12 « 
(i (( 
l< . . _ 
2,100,000 
10 
(( (( 
II _ _ 
3,100,000 
8 
« (( 
II - . . 
1,200,000 
10 « 
(C (( 
Tobacco fund debt, 
9,700,000 
16f « 
II II 
Interest on English debt. 
10 " 
l( II 
Garrison fund. 
98§ 
$18,550,000 
IJ balance clear of lien, for the Government ! 
100 
The Foreign Debt is still larger than this ; and (including the above,) 
I will state the entire national responsibility, as it existed at the end 
of last year : 
Internal debt, $18,550,000 
Debt to English creditors, 60,003,000 
United States claims and interest, say .... 2,400,000 
Copper to be redeemed, ...... 2,000,000 
Claims for Hilazo - - 700,000 
Bustamante loan, 500,000 
$84,150,000 
Until 1841, the whole of the revenue, except 11^ per cent, was appro- 
priated to the payment of $18,.550,000, while the remaining claims were 
entirely unprotected by securities. Shortly after the accession of Santa 
Anna to power, he suspended (by a decree of the 16th of February) the 
payment of the first five funds charged upon the customs, as stated in a 
preceding table, but reserved the active appropriation for the Tobacco and 
English interest debts. This, as may be well imagined, created great dis- 
satisfaction among the mercantile classes, and among numbers of persons 
who had invested their capital in Government loans, with a reliance upon 
the revenues as a solemn pledge for their redemption. Santa Anna, how- 
ever, withstood the torrent manfully. He was assailed by legations, 
newspapers, and individuals, but nothing could induce him to yield the 
