To this table it will not be uninteresting to add a summary of the population, &c., of the governments of Spanish America.
| Inhabitants. | Inhabitants. | |||
| New Spain | 6,500,000, | of which its capital, | Mexico, has | 137,000 |
| Guatimala | 1,200,000, | " " | Guatimala | 19,000 |
| Cuba | 550,000, | " " | Havannah | 25,000 |
| Puerto Rico | 136,000, | " " | Puerto Rico, very populous. | |
| Floridas | uncertain, | " " | San Augustin, Pensacola. | 4000 |
| New Granada | 1,800,000, | " " | Santa Fé de Bogota | 30,000 |
| Caraccas | 900,000, | " " | Caraccas | 20,000 |
| Peru | 1,300,000, | " " | Lima | 54,000 |
| Chili | 800,000, | " " | Santiago | 36,000 |
| Buenos Ayres or La Plata | 1,100,000, | " " | Buenos Ayres | 60,000 |
| Making | 14,286,000. | |||
To which may be added 50,000 more for Cuba, as according to the latest enquiries that island possesses a population of 600,000 souls; thus there will be a total known population of 14,336,000, and allowing for the inhabitants of the Floridas, and the unnumbered Indians of the kingdom of La Plata, the actual number of persons existing under the government of Spain in the Americas, will not fall short of fifteen millions, while the Portuguese subjects in Brazil amount only to 3,300,000, of whom one million and a half are negroes, one million are Indians and the rest whites.
Of the above total of 14,336,000 souls, there are 3,000,000 whites born in the country, 200,000 Europeans, and the remaining 11,136,000 are Indians, negroes and mixed races, or castes, of which the Indians bear by far the greater proportion, the negroes in Caraccas amounting to 54,000, in Cuba to 212,000; the other states having comparatively very few slaves.
The spaces which this mass of people occupy, in the different governments, have been thus calculated:
| Square leagues. | |
| New Spain extends over a surface equal to | 118,748 |
| Guatimala | 26,152 |
| Cuba and Puerto Rico | 6,921 |
| Floridas | 8,555 |
| New Granada | 64,520 |
| Caraccas | 47,856 |
| Peru | 30,390 |
| Chili | 22,574 |
| Buenos Ayres or La Plata | 143,014 |
| 468,730 |
Making an extent of country equal to 468,730 square leagues; whilst Great Britain, which has a population of 12,596,800 souls, occupies a space equal only to 87,502 square miles.
The Mines of the empire of Spanish America furnish annually in gold and silver in—
| £ Sterling. | |
| New Spain to the value of | 5,030,800 |
| New Granada | 507,000 |
| Peru and Chili | 1,730,000 |
| Buenos Ayres or La Plata | 882,000 |
| 8,149,800 |