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addressed to Mr Dunbar enquiring whether
it would be desirable to pay the Police
in Specie, which he answered in the
negative without consulting them. ---

The want of Specie in
circulation is a great check to Trade
in the Interior; No good Mechanic or
Tradesmen will settle himself where he can
never see money in circulation; and no
Towns or Inland Markets can ever exist
till this want is supplied. - The few
Chelsea Pensioners resident in the District
were formerly paid in British Coin, as
I believe by Law they ought to be; but
of late this practice has been discontinued,
and the Inn Keepers, Dealers and Tradesmen
inform me, that they feel the loss of ^ [added above] (even) this
small quantity of Silver in circulation

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