owing both to the large Annual loss caused by the co stamping and melting practised
in China, and to their extensive dispersion among people, they are found to be wholly insufficient for the Ordinary requirements of trade.
"Nevertheless, the Chinese, averse to change, and attached to a coin with whose fineness, uniformity and inscriptions they have become familiar; and which moreover seems to be of the value best suited to their wants, are now so scarce as to refuse to do business with any other. At this moment not only our commerce with them, but the interior traffic of more than fifty millions of this people, is seriously encumbered by this prejudice.
The natural remedy for such an evil is, that the Imperial Government of China should cancel the use of foreign coin and provide a suitable substitute from its own mints. But, this it has not done. Indeed we may safely say that it cannot do it, since it can act only through officers who are notoriously inclined...
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...who are notoriously inclined to corruption.
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