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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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