The Annual Register, Vol. 6: Or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, for the Year 1763 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Annual Register, Vol. 6: Or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, for the Year 1763

In faét, they formerly enjoyed a traffic in fome degree proportioned to the peculiar felicity of their litu ation; but the Spanilh dominion is too valt and unconnefted to be improved to the belt advantage. The fpirit of commerce is not powerful in that people. The trade of the Philippines is thought to have declined its great branch is now reduced to two (hips, which annually pafs between thefe iflands and Acapulco in America, and to a tingle port, that of Manila, in an ifiand of the fame name.

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Excerpt from The Annual Register, Vol. 6: Or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, for the Year 1763

Therefiofthephilippineillands, lo liar as the Spanilh power pre vails in them, are 'under the go vernor of -luconia; but there are many of them, in which that na tion has little authority, or even influence. There are in all about fourteen of them which defcrve norice.

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