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MEXICO. 
an examination of a document which exhibits an expenditure of $8,000,000 
(in a time of peace with all the rest of the world,) for a War Department, 
the active officers of which receive $357,397 a year, while the retired are 
paid more than double that amount ; at the same time that the whole Civil 
Administration of the country costs but about four millions ! This state- 
ment would appear to indicate a degree of necessary coercion and cor- 
ruption, which are but slender promises of the growth of peace, glory, 
and prosperity. The feeble support given to public instruction by direct 
contributions of the Government I have already alluded to, and the reader 
may, at a glance, see how much is expended for punishment, and how 
little for instruction and benevolence. The army is constantly the fond- 
ling of the rulers of the day. By it they are elevated to power ; by it 
they are sustained or defeated, and, relying on its bayonets rather than 
the hearts and intellects of the great masses of their countrymen, they 
are obliged to pay both well and promptly the masters they pretend to 
rule. 
The cost of this branch of the service must have greatly increased in 
1842 and 1843, in consequence of the meditated attack upon Texas and 
the actual conflict with Yucatan. I regret that I have no data upon these 
subjects ; but it may fairly be calculated, that if the expenses were 
$8,000,000 in 1840, in a period of comparative tranquillity, (with the ex- 
ception of a short revolution in the Capital,) they must have been swelled 
in 1 842 and the present year, by the purchase of steamers and munitions 
of war, to near 10 or $12,000,000. 
ARMY AND NAVY. 
In regard to the numbers of the Akmy, I am equally without informa- 
tion since 1840 ; but I may state that the forces have been considerably 
augmented, and in all probability amount to 40,000 men. In 1840, the 
Mexican army was composed of 
14 Generals of Division, 
26 « of Brigade, 
3 Brigades, (on foot,) 
I ^ " (mounted,) 
5 Separate Companies, 
1 Director General, 
3 Colonels, 
6 Lieutenant Colonels, 
1 Adjutant, 
14 Captains, - 
16 Lieutenants, 
10 Sub-lieutenants, 
1 Battalion. 
ARTILLERY. 
ENGINEER CORPS. 
SAPPERS. 
$500 
375 
235 
141 
104 
84 
62 
39 
per month. 
