[12] He states that in the first galleon sent to Acapulco under the regulation of 1726 (which entered Acapulco in the year 1729) [13] goods were confiscated by order of the viceroy to the following amount: 285 bales, 49 bags of cinnamon containing 7,105 libras, more than a thousand arrobas of wax, nineteen chests of silk fabrics, and many other goods. In the second galleon (that of 1730) were confiscated 319 bales, and 694 piezas of various bulky goods--cinnamon, wax, pepper, storax, and porcelain. Cadiz claims that at first (about 1690) the Chinese goods carried to Nueva España were in so small quantity and so inferior quality "that no one valued such goods; nor did these injure the commerce of España or its manufactures, until, two ships of Philipinas having been wrecked, that same viceroy [Conde de Galvez], as a measure of precaution, despatched General Don Andrés de Arriola with a patache to ascertain the cause for the delay in the arrival of those ships; and, that commander having returned to Acapulco in the following year, 1692, with this occasion the citizens of Mexico promoted the plan of furnishing capital for another new ship. Various citizens of Mexico, and others from Perù, went thither, and, carrying specimens of our [Spanish] fabrics, started the establishment [of factories] in Pequin, Cantòn, and China; [they also set the Chinese to work] to make these goods of finer quality, and to manufacture fabrics like those specimens, and of the same quality. Both qualities were introduced [into Nueva España] by that ship and by those which regularly followed it, in proportion to the amount that they found to be consumed in Nueva España; and this was considerable, on account of the fact that four years intervened between the trading-fleet of Conde de Sanrrami and that of Don Ignacio de Barrios, and seven years from that of the latter to the fleet of Don Manuel de Velasco and its return to España. That was the time when the traders of Philipinas reached the height of their traffic in the silk fabrics; and, finding in those years that there was no trading-fleet in Nueva España, they gathered in the rich treasures against which the consulate and commerce of Andalucia have with reason remonstrated." Pintado declares that he has been an eyewitness of these things ever since 1692, and that only during that time has Manila enjoyed this silk trade which it now claims as belonging to it by free possession and long usage. Cadiz has frequently protested against the injury thus caused to the silk industry of España, but has not before exposed the real condition of affairs; but, "even if the 300,000 pesos of the permission which was granted and enjoyed up to the year 1728 inclusive had all been spent for goods of the silk made in China, without [the galleon] carrying anything else, at the prices which they were fairly worth in Manila, and even if twice as much were furnished at these prices, how was that trade [of Manila] capable