text:  Notwithstanding however the difficulties we are thus exposed to from the lack or incompleteness of official data on the side of Spain we hope to present a body of useful information illustrative of her commerce industry and policy; in especial we hope to dispel certain grave misconceptions to redress signal exaggeration about the extent of the contraband trade rankly as it flourishes carried on along the coasts and more largely still perhaps by the land frontiers of that country at least so far as British participation