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globe, that the plan of coining - British dollars, adopted during short period, some years ago, was afterwards abandoned. The evils

of the existing currency

chiefly of

eney, consisting

worn and mutilated

Mexican dollare of uncertain. -value are even more intolerable

than those so graphically described by Lord Macaulay in his history of England (Chapter XXI). Monover, there can be little doubt but that

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the British dollar, with the "image

and superscription of the Queen,

would,

would, (like the British Rupee in India and in the neighbouring countries), have gradually superseded other silver eureney throughout the Chinese Empire, and would have

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ultimately proved a powerful and legitimate of extending British influence. I am aware, however, of the practical difficulties which surround this question.

In conclusion, I request

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- that I may be informed, at as early a period as may be convenient, of the final decision of Her Majesty's

Government

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