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Rh was repaid in guineas of twenty shillings. SIR JAMES STEUART sums up the entire transaction as follows: ". . . the state gained considerably upon the score of taxes, as well as the creditors upon their capitals and interest; and the nation, which was the principal loser, was pleased; because their standard (The standard of