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]

REMARKS ON THE PHILLIPPINE ISLANDS AND ON THEIR CAPITAL
MANILA, 1819 to 1822
ADVERTISEMENT
The following remarks are drawn up by one but
little accustomed to writing, and offered with much
diffidence. In them the Spanish character will be
found perhaps severely treated; but it is necessary to
remark, that not only these observations are, from
their very nature, general; but farther, that they have
no reference to the genuine or European Spanish
character-a character of which the writer has but
little knowledge, and one as essentially different from
that which falls under consideration in the following
pages, as the society of all convict colonies is from
that of the mother country.33
33 The full title of this book is as follows: Remarks on the
Phillippine Islands, and on their capital Manila. I819 to I822.
By an Englishman. " When a traveller returneth home, let him
not leaIve the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind
him." LORD BACON-Essays. Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist mission Press, Circular Road; and sold by Messrs. W. Thacker
and Co. St. Andrew's Library. I828.
Opposite the title-page is a folding map, entitled " Map of the
province of Tondo." It is Spanish, dated 1819; and shows as well
portions of the adjacent provinces. The book is dedicated "To