Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata / Their Present State, Trade, and Debt

by Sir Woodbine Parish

No. 8.—Return of Foreign Shipping arrived at Buenos Ayres, from 1821 to 1837, inclusive.

	1821.	1822.	1823.	1824.	1825.	1829.	1830.	1831.	1832.	1833.	1834.	1835.	1836.	1837.
British	128	133	113	110	99	78	73	44	48	74	61	54	49	61
N. American	42	75	80	143	102	97	83	77	55	91	67	51	37	40
Brazilian						15	38	42	44	47	43	42	39	42
Sardinian	3	7	6	6	5	15	23	20	26	30	43	23	21	20
French	19	21	24	21	29	28	16	10	22	17	10	14	19	24
Hamburgh					5	3	3	2	4	9	14	8	5	7
Dutch	2	4	6	8	6	5	8	2	2	2	2	3	2	1
Bremen					1		2	5	4	5	5	7	4	4
Danish	1	1	5	10	14	3	6	3	1	5	5	6	9	9
Swedish	7	11	6	14	11	3	1			1		3	6	4
Tuscan							1	1	2	2			1	1
Roman							1		1	2	1
Russian					1	1		1		1	1			1
Neapolitan								1		3	2
Austrian										2
Hanoverian					1				1	1
Portuguese							1			1	4	1		2
Chilian						1	1			1	1
Prussian					1							1
Belgian								2			2		2
Haytian						1
Spanish													6	12
Totals	202	252	240	312	275	250	257	210	210	294	261	213	200	228
N.B. The years 1825, 26, and 27 are omitted; Buenos Ayres havingbeen under blockade the greater part of that period. The vessels underthe flag of Monte Video are omitted also, being chiefly the carriers of atransit-trade.

No. 9
A Statement of the Quantities and Declared Value of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures Exported from the United Kingdom to the States of the Rio de la Plata,
In each year from 1830 to 1837.— (From Returns laid before Parliament.)

Articles.		1830.		1831.		1832.		1833.		1834.		1835.		1836.		1837.
		Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.
			£		£		£		£		£		£		£		£
Apparel, Slops, and Hab­er­dash­er­y,	value		6,305		4,341		5,067		3,082		2,096		3,986		5,028		2,111
Arms and Am­mu­ni­tion	"		158		443		345		419		3,035		6,388		867		1,391
Bacon and Hams	cwts.	146	338			60	157	155	490	104	225	59	115	28	70	105	220
Beer and Ale	tuns	112	2,097	54	1,003	78	1,465	108	1,712	74	1,083	87	1,394	107	2,065	68	1,149
Books Printed	cwts.	12	319	6	128	2	51	1	10	5	126	7	166	12	275	9	180
Brass and Copper Man­u­fac­tures	"	265	1,219	50	279	105	485	96	555	139	807	37	265	1	5	72	675
Butter and Cheese	"	98	308	215	728	547	2,160	829	3,169	86	277	2	5			35	49
Coals, Culm, and Cinders	tons	941	585	109	94	707	430	868	438	966	508	1,544	751	975	514	713	400
Cordage	cwts.	80	200			55	53	144	234	100	150	430	646	30	100	153	288
Cotton Man­u­fac­tures, entered by the yard	yards	10,805,990	324,305	6,242,134	176,874	17,256,838	391,591	12,731,734	280,292	20,942,118	449,831	12,853,287	312,400	18,628,197	435,932	20,183,454	445,291
" " Hosiery, Lace and Small Wares	value		20,005		9,943		33,344		23,311		33,313		26,488		20,588		18,818
" Twist and Yarn	lbs.	5,831	587	800	30			300	26	9,258	446	34,560	2,824	4,600	350	5,734	364
Earth­en­ware of all sorts	pieces	671,945	9,617	292,529	4,274	354,684	5,309	770,172	9,377	523,161	5,762	598,001	6,212	966,687	9,748	1,093,905	7,724
Fish, Her­rings	barrels	60	72			35	29							2	2	2	2
Glass, entered by weight	cwts.	2,265	3,330	1,669	2,969	2,579	6,620	3,198	9,737	2,156	4,929	3,029	9,844	2,596	2,654	1,314	3,856
" " at value	value		254		58				100		60		196
Hard­wares and Cutlery	cwts.	5,793	24,356	4,237	20,000	5,397	22,718	5,571	20,281	10,454	33,040	8,347	30,117	7,211	27,629	6,929	20,531
Hats, Beaver and Felt	dozens	3,165	10,262	1,314	4,340	1,711	4,039	1,173	3,085	2,900	4,891	2,924	5,780	1,099	1,925	2,146	3,239
Iron and Steel, wrought and un­wrought	tons	545	7,836	391	5,058	792	6,128	734	11,023	1,143	12,433	1,033	9,414	963	13,614	994	12,859
Lead and Shot	"	40	662	20	351	14	219	38	555	15	283	13	295	24	775	34	703
Leather, wrought and un­wrought	lbs.	34,500	9,791	19,752	5,253	23,473	6,809	33,792	9,219	38,457	8,341	30,669	7,151	16,708	3,760	23,987	5,763
Sad­dler­y and Harness	value		1,254		279		309		1,330		943		1,284		888		341
Linen Man­u­fac­tures, entered by the yard	yards	973,640	31,893	406,583	16,663	344,013	30,680	509,528	21,690	1,487,576	43,919	948,026	34,789	794,772	27,844	1,477,392	42,591
" " Thread, Tapes, and Small Wares	value		1,078		1,514		1,619		327		1,073		842		460		656
Ma­chin­er­y and Mill Work	"		38		222				18		72		4,022		40		390
Print­ers' Colours	"		758		293		690		1,973		2,907		2,634		2,066		1,769
Plate, Plated Ware, Jew­el­lery and Watches	"		941		1,041		445		1,081		1,232		1,095		420		1,192
Salt	bushels	15,610	412	5,770	86	163	8	2,000	34	1,144	32	2,200	50	1,121	32	3,480	60
Silk Man­u­fac­tures	value		10,365		13,319		24,786		11,735		19,274		18,307		9,514		13,098
Soap and Candles	lbs.	51,730	1,147	2,710	35	125,520	2,661	277,102	5,416	13,100	290	18,369	380			224	12
Sta­tion­er­y of all sorts	value		1,325		1,089		1,912		1,441		2,064		3,202		1,708		1,545
Sugar, Refined	cwts.	149	409	84	186			131	287	504	1,368	32	91
Tin, un­wrought	"			37	125	35	117	8	30	78	185					15	61
Tin and Pewter Wares and Tin Plates	value		780		701		2,754		1,060		2,006		2,286		3,390		4,052
Woollen and Worsted Yarn	lbs.					1,672	80			6	1		816		90	672	130
Woollen Man­u­fac­tures, entered by the piece	pieces	30,328	141,700	14,901	58,137	28,392	39,445	23,387	79,231	36,673	172,393	35,970	140,915	26,514	105,223	22,555	93,355
" " " " yard	yards	84,830	8,184	49,119	5,077	39,219	9,099	65,269	5,640	112,124	10,781	113,750	9,251	114,023	10,121	60,857	5,578
" " Hosiery and Small Wares	value		4,574		1,705		4,462		3,052		4,801		3,593		4,607		2,301
All other Articles	"		4,663		3,382		4,066		3,902		6,587		11,347		5,030		3,365
Total		For 1830 £632,172		1831 £339,870		1832 £660,152		1833 £515,362		1834 £831,564		1835 £658,525		1836 £697,334		1837 £696,104

No. 10.
TRADE OF MONTE VIDEO.

I.—Return of Foreign Shipping entered and sailed from the Port of Monte Video in 1836, with the Estimated Value of their Cargoes.

Countries.	Entered.		Sailed.
	Ships.	Value of Cargoes.	Ships.	Value of Cargoes.
		Spanish Dollars.		Spanish Dollars.
British	58	1,172,658	57	951,423
Brazilian	62	713,793	62	825,440
American	50	217,402	48	295,829
French	40	578,178	40	464,430
Spanish	15	311,285	15	236,672
Sardinian	57	102,039	41	30,252
Portuguese	13	15,200	13	62,700
Other Countries.	..	502,082	..	639,909
		3,597,437		3,443,957

II.—Return, showing the quantities of each Article Exported, and the Foreign Countries for which they were shipped from Monte Video in the year 1836.

		England.	France.	U. States.	Spain.	Sardinia.	Antwerp.	Brazil.	Havanna.	Total Quantities.
Hides, dry	No.	61,718	108,428	38,848	67,026	4,668	87,942	3,270	119	372,019
Do. salt	"	124,666	13,288	297	230		2,901			141,382
Horns	"	329,836	32,110	142,766	20,328	27,291	20,242	12,552	850	593,625
Jerked Beef	cwts.							218,318	88,036	306,354
Horsehair	arrobes of 25 lbs.	9,578	4,622	3,984		436	72			18,692
Cuttings of Hides	4,468	764	1,584		960				7,776
Horse Hides	No.	15,820	46	20,144	1,121		170			37,401
Grease	arrobes.	14,857		2,710			192	1,419	4,390	23,568
Wool	"	14,930	2,300	14,140	30	2,500				33,900
Sheep Skins	doz.	1,937	2,636	4,070	353	837		22		9,855
Tallow	arrobes.	6,158	4,112	452	3,787	2,123	450	2,425	1,847	43,182
Nutria Skins	doz.	3,990	320	1,640		220	400			6,570
Mares' Grease	arrobes.	2,944		59						3,003
Seal Skins	No.	3,831		16,000		53			161	20,045
Tongues	doz.							440		440
Mules										410
Horses								164		164
Bones	tons.	259	53	10			3	1		326