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Imports from Spain direct, L.1,732,000
_Via_ Gibraltar, 100,000
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Total, L.1,832,000

Exports to Spain
direct, L.554,000
_Via_ Gibraltar, 727,900
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L.1,281,900
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Excess in favour of Spain,
and against England, L.550,100

--A sum nearly equal to the amount of the exports to Spain direct. As we
remarked before, these figures and valuations, which are sufficiently
approximative of accuracy for any useful purpose, will take public men
and economists, both here and in Spain, by surprise. Amongst other of
the more distinguished men of the Peninsula, Senor Marliani, enlightened
statesman, and well studied in the facts of detail and the philosophy of
commercial legislation as he undoubtedly is, does not appear to have
exactly suspected the existence of evidence leading to such results.

From the incompleteness of the Spanish returns of foreign trade, it is
unfortunately not possible to test the complete accuracy of those given
here by collation. The returns before us, and they are the only ones yet
undertaken in Spain, and in order, embrace in detail nine only of the
principal ports:--

For Cadiz, Malaga, Carthagena, St
Sebastian, Bilboa, Santander,
Gijon, Corunna, and the Balearic
Isles, the total imports and exports
united are stated to have amounted,
in 1840, to about L.6,147,280

Employing 5782 vessels
of the aggregate tonnage
of 584,287

Of the foreign trade of other ports
and provinces no returns are made
out. All known of the important
seaport of Barcelona was, that its
foreign trade in the same year occupied
1,645 vessels of 173,790
tonnage. The special aggregate
exports from the nine ports cited to
the United Kingdom--the separate
commodities composing which, as
of imports, are given with exactness
of detail--are stated for 1840
in value at L.1,476,000

To which add, of raisins
alone, from Valencia,
about 184,000 cwts,
(other exports not given,)
value 185,000

Exports from Almeria, 13,000
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L.1,674,000

Although these are the principal ports of Spain, yet they are not the
only ports open to foreign trade, although, comparatively, the
proportion