Reclamos y circunstancias del Consulado de México ante los anuncios de la salida de la flota en 1764

Abstract

This work wants to present two documents prepared by the Consulate of Mexico, with which we can become aware of some positions, demands, and claims of this New Spain organization (and, through it, listen to the voice of the most important merchants of the viceroyalty) to the highest authority of the Spanish empire in relation to the forms in which the organization of the supply of European goods to New Spain was arranged. Documents prepared at a delicate moment in view of the possibility of suffering an invasion or attack by British military forces on the port of Veracruz; as a consequence of the international political balances after the peace treaty of the Seven Years’ War.