of Com
139
: ttention of their Lordships when
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it was published in the Times",
a considerable time.
ago.
The facts.
however, to which it refered,
except some which are incorrect,
under
had already been brought the notice of Her Majest je Government by the Governor of Fong Thong,
and there did
not appear to my Lords to be anything in the letter deserving peculiar notia.
The circulation of
the Ports of China appears, so
for
ow my
Lords
Caet
learn
from the information officially
communicated to them a
gleaned.
gleaned from other quarters to stand in the following position.
Mt. Canton a su.
sneass.
ful effort was made some
time
ago by the forsign.
merchants, in concert with
the Chinese- tothorities to eva Z
= come
the prejudices of the Chimwe in favor of the obselete Spanish Pillar Dollar.
and to substitute the Mexican
Qollar on the medium of
exchange - since that reform
effected my lords Frame heard of no complaints of any difficulty in carrying on the monetary transactionnd
of