CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868 — Page 236

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Imperial Good wohibits any greater favor twardy the Facl pieces than towards the dollar. I determined to bring the question in this mo dified form under the consideration of the Isingh

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Having carefully noted all that my Kinder advances in his communication to after his mission to

To Japan Errand the result of wh is not stated. I w? observe by way of preface that not only there much in it as you rightly unfte whis

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Expectation & erroneous in over sanguine in Expectation = deduction but a great deal frunded

mistaken premises

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Without questioning his opinion as to " the superiority of a legitimate currency the present barbarous & uncertain practice

of China who makes weight the medium of Exchange leaving the "Touch "or purity of the silver a

matter

Every transaction", it red

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st not be overlooked, that this system barbarous

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or otherwise answers its end indifferently well

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the Chinese themselves are concerned

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Chinese mind not easily sverestimated Snoring this, In? Kinder has been further led affareilly by something] who passed in conversation with W. Wade to conclude that the wish of the Chinese fest for some comage, such as that proposed

in saying

Existing

the

Currency

Exists as a

fact.

I have no hesitation

that there is nothing of the kind On the contrary great difficulty

the

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way of any effort to introduce a silver. in Clima crises from the facto the want of it has not been felt by the people for whose benefit it is ostensibly designed & that the Imperial govt has a strong Conviction well or ill founded that no

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