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Appendix.
Satisfied with the importance of Lord Grenvilles valuable suggestion & convincd that the adoption of it will be honorable to the Nation, advantageous to the Arts & creditable to all those who assist in carrying it into execution, I cannot refrain from suggesting on the spur of the occasion I have thought it proper to propose designs for the two Colonial Tokens now under the consideration of the Committee of Privy Council for Coins, That for the Assembly of the Bahama Islands & that for the Government of Ceylon with a view to express more fully the details of the System proposed & not with any Idea of their being adopted, unless it is deemed more proper on the Spur of the occasion to adopt use indifferent Compositions, matter than to wait for the Results of more mature Consideration.
The Portrait of our Kisng ought in my humble opinion to occupy the Obverse of every Coin struck for the use of the Mother Country, but in order to establish a decisive distinction between our domestic & our foreign Coins, & to reserve for the United Kingdom a Compliment to which a value will be annexd if it is not participated with others, it may be adviseable to confine the use of it to those Coins only, that are intended to circulate at home.
If this idea is approvd the favorite figure of Britannia may be assumed as the Obverse of our Colonial Tokes & it may be I am confident so varied, if Men of Talents can be inducd to apply to the subject as to designate on all occasions, the actual State the Country is in at the time when a Token is struck.
A Lion by the Side of Britannia will represent our Armd force Military & Naval, & the position of this Lion, the posture