Note 13 — Chapter I
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It is stated that Dr. Roxburgh, who was an eye-witness, was so much impressed by the sufferings of the poor owing to the bad state of the currency that he urged upon A. Dalrymple in a letter dated June 30, 1791, to give prominence to the evils by inserting a paper in his Oriental Repertory (2 vols., London, 1808), “on the current coin in circulation over the Company's Territories which might be productive of the most solid and lasting advantage to the Governing and the Governed,” and added, “You may be able to correct the evil, by which you will certainly go to heaven, if the prayers of the poor avail, and I may get a step nearer paradise.” Observations on the Copper Coinage wanted in the Circars, by A. Dalrymple, London, 1794, p. 1.