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The Politics of Reform in Spain's Atlantic Empire during the Late Bourbon Period: The Visita of José García de León y Pizarro in Quito*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2009

KENNETH J. ANDRIEN
KENNETH J. ANDRIEN
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Kenneth J. Andrien is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at the Ohio State University. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

This article examines the political imbroglios surrounding the tenure of José García de León y Pizarro (1778–84) as visitador and president-regent of the Audiencia or Kingdom of Quito, in order to demonstrate the deep political divisions that emerged in Spain's Atlantic empire over the Bourbon Reforms. García Pizarro's policies strengthened the colonial state and produced a dramatic increase in crown revenues, but they also led to a groundswell of protest from local elites and even provoked the condemnation of his successors. These political struggles in Quito reveal the many competing viewpoints about the reform and renovation of Spanish Empire. The Bourbon Reforms emerged from a series of hotly contested political struggles on both sides of the Atlantic, leading to patchy and even distinctive outcomes in different regions of the empire. This political contestation also helps to explain why no coherent, commonly accepted plan for the reform of Spain's Atlantic empire ever emerged during the century.

Abstract

Este artículo examina los embrollos políticos alrededor del cargo de José García de León y Pizarro (1778–84) como visitador y regente de la Audiencia o Reino de Quito, para mostrar las profundas divisiones políticas que emergieron en el imperio atlántico de España alrededor de las Reformas Borbónicas. Las políticas de García Pizarro fortalecieron al Estado colonial y resultaron en un incremento sustancial en los ingresos de la corona, aunque también condujeron a movimientos de protesta por parte de las élites locales que incluso provocaron críticas de parte de sus sucesores. Tales luchas políticas en Quito revelan los muchos y encontrados puntos de vista acerca de las reformas y la renovación del imperio español. Las Reformas Borbónicas emergieron de una serie de luchas políticas muy enfrentadas en ambos lados del Atlántico, desembocando en resultados disparejos y hasta distintos en diferentes regiones del imperio. Tales diferencias políticas también ayudan a entender por qué nunca emergió un plan coherente y ampliamente aceptado para las reformas del imperio español en el Atlántico.

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Para demonstrar as profundas divisões políticas surgidas no império atlântico espanhol resultantes das reformas bourbons, este artigo examina os imbróglios políticos em torno da gestão de José García de León y Pizarro (1778–84), visitador e presidente-regente da Real Audiência ou Reino de Quito. O programa de García Pizarro fortaleceu o estado colonial e gerou um aumento substancioso em receitas para a coroa, mas também levou as elites locais a um movimento de protesto, chegando a levar seus sucessores a condená-lo. Os conflitos políticos em Quito revelam diversas perspectivas em disputa acerca da reforma e renovação do império espanhol. As reformas bourbons resultaram de uma série de conflitos políticos altamente contestados nos dois lados do Atlântico e consequências distintas em diferentes regiões do império. Essa contestação política também ajuda a explicar por que não houve um plano coerente e universalmente aceito para a reforma do império espanhol atlântico durante aquele século.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , November 2009 , pp. 637 - 662
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26 In most regions Gálvez hoped to separate the military, fiscal and judicial administration. According to Brading, ‘His idea was to establish a troika system, with regents heading the judiciary, superintendents the exchequer and intendants, and the viceroys retaining civil administration and the military’: Brading, ‘Bourbon Spain and its American Empire’, p. 407. García Pizarro's powers in Quito were even more extensive than those exercised by Gálvez in Mexico, Areche and later Escobedo in Peru, and Gutiérrez de Piñeres in New Granada, who all had to contend with powerful and often suspicious viceroys. Even Alvarez de Acevedo in Chile was named regent of the Audiencia, but he did not hold the presidency: see J. R. Fisher, Government and Society in Colonial Peru: The Intendant System, 1784–1814 (London, 1970), pp. 18–19, 25, 55; Barbier, Reform and Politics, pp. 115–34, Phelan, The People and the King, pp. 7, 14–16, 22, 33; and Priestly, José de Gálvez, pp. 123–8.

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39 José García de León y Pizarro to José de Gálvez, número 26, Quito, 18 septiembre 1780, AGI, Quito 240.

40 José García de León y Pizarro to José de Gálvez, Quito, 18 enero 1779, AGI, Quito 240, número 60. García Pizarro blamed this behaviour on a painful stomach illness suffered by Gazan. While several colleagues commented on the unorthodox behaviour of the irascible Gazan, most also testified to his competence, including the chief auditor of the Quito office of the tribunal of accounts, Francisco Antonio de Asilona: see Informe del Consejo, Madrid, 27 abril 1778, AGI, Quito 377; Francisco Antonio de Asilona to crown, Quito, 31 agosto 1778, AGI, Quito 411.

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43 Ibid., pp. 195–206.

44 Ibid., p. 155.

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49 Ibid.

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51 Fernando Quadrado to Francisco de Gil y Lemos, Quito, 18 junio 1789, AGI, Quito 267; Fernando Quadrado to Francisco de Gil y Lemos, Quito, 21 marzo 1789, carta reservada, AGI, Quito 267.

52 Resumen del dinero, plata labrada, y alajas de oro, piedras y perlas que resultan del información averse regalado a la señora Pizarro, Quito, no date, AGI, Quito 267.

53 Fernando Quadrado to Francisco de Gil y Lemos, Quito, 18 mayo 1789, AGI, Quito 267.

54 Crown to Viceroy of New Granada, Madrid, 29 enero 1790, AGI, Quito 271; Fernando Quadrado to crown, 3 febrero 1790, AGI, Quito 267. Informe del fiscal, Madrid, 18 octubre 1790; Consulta, Madrid, 18 octubre 1790, AGI, Quito 271.

55 Ibid.

56 Twinam, Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia, pp. 32–3, 50–60, 124–8, 106–8; Burkholder and Chandler, Biographical Dictionary of Audiencia Ministers, p. 219; and McFarlane, Colombia Before Independence, pp. 137–40.

57 Brading, Miners and Merchants, pp. 34–9.

58 Ibid., p. 70.

59 Juan Antonio Mon y Velarde to Antonio Porlier, Quito, 18 enero 1791, AGI, Quito 249.

60 Ibid.

61 The president also found the militia system equally wasteful and warranting drastic cutbacks: see Juan Antonio Mon y Velarde to Pedro de Lerena, Quito, 3 marzo 1791, AGI, Quito, 249.

62 Juan Antonio Mon y Velarde to Antonio Valdés, Quito, 18 junio 1790, AGI, Quito, 248.

63 Ibid.

64 Ibid. These plans are also summarised in Washburn, ‘The Bourbon Reforms’, pp. 157–9.

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72 Paquette, Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform, p. 153.

73 Ibid., p. 152.

74 Ibid., p. 153; Stein and Stein, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America, p. 104. For an overview of the political struggles over the end of the commercial monopoly of the Cádiz consulado, see Allan J. Kuethe, ‘El fin del monopolio: los Borbones y el consulado andaluz’, in Enriqueta Vila Vilar and Allan J. Kuethe (eds.), Relaciones de poder y comercio colonial (Seville, 1999), pp. 35–66.

75 Stein and Stein, Apogee of Empire, pp. 162–85.

76 Quoted in John Lynch, ‘The Origins of Spanish American Independence’, in Leslie Bethell (ed.), The Independence of Latin America (Cambridge, 1987), p. 16.

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