The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; 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, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 51]

THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

[Vol. 51

of July 3, I833, accepted the proposal of certain persons to establish " a lottery, at their own account and
risk, offering to pay to the treasury forty per cent [of
the receipts?], besides twenty-five per cent of the
value of the tickets which composed each drawing,
after furnishing adequate security as a guarantee for
the fulfilment of their promise." The exclusive privilege of this lottery was granted to these persons for
a period of five years. Enrile created the Guia de
forasteros [" Guide for Strangers"] of Filipinas; it
first appeared in I834. Our author reproduces (t. ii,
pp. 539, 540) the table of contents of this annual.
Fernando VII died on September 29, I833, and was
succeeded by his daughter Isabel II, to be until her
majority under the regency of her mother, Maria
Cristina; this was quickly followed by the Carlist
insurrection, the reactionary party being headed by
the young prince Carlos, who was proclaimed king
as Carlos V, and civil war ensued, which for seven
years stained the soil of Spain with the blood of her
own sons. By royal order of August io, 1834, the
Chinese traders were restricted to the Parian, and
those Chinese who were allowed to reside in the
provinces must devote themselves to agricultural pursuits. Enrile issued an edict on October I, I834,
removing the special duties imposed on the Chinese
champans, and placing them under the same regulations as the vessels of other foreign nations. On February 2, 1835, the official despatches arrived from
Spain which decreed the restoration of the constitutional regime and the convocation of the Cortes.
Enrile strengthened the naval forces sent against the
for specified purposes, and that the rest be covered into the royal
treasury.