Chapter I: Front Matter

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and
their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions,
as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the
political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those
islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the
close of the nineteenth century,

Volume LI, 1801-1840

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

The Arthur H. Clark Company
Cleveland, Ohio
MCMVII

CONTENTS OF VOLUME LI

Preface 11

Documents of 1801-1840

Events in Filipinas, 1801-1840. [Compiled from Montero
y Vidal's Historia de Filipinas.] 23
Remarks on the Philippine Islands, 1819-22.
"An Englishman;" Calcutta, 1828 73
Reforms needed in Filipinas. Manuel Bernaldez Pizarro;
Madrid, April 26, 1827 182

Bibliographical Data 275

Appendix

Representation of Filipinas in Cortes. [Compiled from
various sources.] 279
List of the archbishops of Manila, 1581-1898. [Compiled
from various sources.] 298

ILLUSTRATIONS

Chart of China Sea and the Philippines, 1794, in The
complete East India pilot, printed for Laurie & Whittle
(London, 1800), ii, map 114; photographic facsimile from
copy in Library of Congress. Frontispiece
Plan of a portion of Manila, showing new works constructed
December 15, 1770-June 15, 1771, drawn by the engineer
Dionisio Kelly, 1771; photographic facsimile from MS. map
(in colors), in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 29
Chart of the port of San Luis, in the Marianas Islands,
1738; photographic facsimile from original manuscript by
Adjutant Domingo Garrido de Malavar, in Archivo general de
Indias, Sevilla 67
Plan of the environs, and a portion of the coast and bay
adjacent to the city of Manila, 1779 (?); photographic
facsimile from original MS. map (in colors), in Archivo
general de Indias, Sevilla 161
Plan showing outer works of Manila, drawn by the engineer
Tomás Sanz; photographic facsimile from original MS. map
(in colors), in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 193