the information of Earl
Carl Grey,
Lorde
that it appears to my that the system of Sciences
to the Retailers of
fopium at- Roughing is calentated to offect the threefold dijeet of raising
a considerable Revenue
upon
article of consumptio forming a very proper siljist taxation, of bringing the
%
retail Dealers in
Deng under the
L
intomicating
superintendence
of the Palice, and of checking suuggling trade between Xong trong and think in
an
article prohibited in the latter.
beauty. leiewing the Opium
Frem in this
light, and
386
considering that the license
is the mode
system is
tax a
f
aation with which the Hatices
of China
are understand to
be most familiar, My Lads are of opinion that its generd principles
beat
are not only justifiable
commendable atthor in
this Country
a similar systear
would probably
be found
absence
impracticable
My And Asense that
dads Me abjection taken to the farm by Mese Banstead
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