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am sorry to say that, despite such advantages, the Chinese are nevertheless insensible to any sentiment, and exhibit allurements of financial preference except for the greatest weight of silver and would seek that even in Coins produced by "an anarchical State like Mexico".
Mr. Menzie is equally inaccurate in another assertion, which is greatly calculated to mislead. He refers to the large quantity of silver sent to the mint on its first opening, attracted by the Government Concession of Coining free of seignorage for one month in July, and states that "Several millions of Mexican dollars were at once sent in".
The tendency and probably, the object of such obfuscation is to attribute a preference, on the part of the local population here for the British dollar as British. Indeed, much of the sanguine calculations of those, who originated the Mint, is based on sentimentality of that description, which pictures a Briton carrying his dollar like the Union Jack round the world.
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Even Mr. Kinder, after espousing here for months the same spirit, was fancied and has officially represented to me that as it had become impossible for the Public or