128 Some account of the Wars between Burmah and China. [Feb. 



of 20,000 men, under Ain-thi'-weng, the governor of Yunan, which 

 took post at Aung -peng -lay, and sent a mission to the king of Ava, 

 demanding Youn-lhi', and threatening, on refusal, to attack Ava. 

 The king summoned a council of his officers, and observing that in 

 the reign of king Du-pa-youn-dayaka, Tho-nga'n-bua had been 

 surrendered to the Chinese, and in the reign of king Nga-dat-daya- 

 ka they had been made to surrender the Tso:-buah of Ba-md to the 

 Burmese, gave it as his opinion, that these two precedents would 

 justify his now delivering Youn-lhi' to the Tartars. One of the 

 Burmese officers expressed his entire concurrence in his Majesty's 

 opinion ; adding, that the Tartars were very powerful, and that the 

 Burmese troops and inhabitants were suffering much from their war 

 with the Chinese. Youn-lhi' with his sons and grandsons were accord- 

 ingly, on the 15th January, 1662, forwarded to the Tartar camp, and 

 delivered over to the Tartar general. He, however, sent another 

 mission to demand the person of the Chinese governor of Yunan, but 

 the king of Ava having replied, that he had executed that governor 

 for ingratitude and treachery, the Tartar camp broke up on the 22nd 

 January and returned to China. The mutual surrender of fugitives 

 of every description is now an established principle in the relations 

 between the two kingdoms, and the Chinese are said to enclose care- 

 fully in a large cage and forward to Ava, any Burmese fugitives 

 required by the king of Ava. 



For a full century after Youn-lhi* was surrendered, the Chinese 

 and Burmese appear to have continued in peace, but at last, in the 

 year 1765, in the reign of Tshen-byu'-yen*, king of Ava, the second 

 son of Alom-pra, another war broke out between the two nations ; 

 and as this war is the last which has occurred between them, and is 

 often referred to by the Burmese with pride and exultation, and as its 

 details are recorded with some minuteness, and are really calculated 

 to give European nations a more favorable opinion of Burmese courage 

 and military skill, I shall endeavour to make a free translation of the 

 account of it, which is contained in the 29th and 30th volumes of the 

 Chronicles of the kings of Ava. 



The causes of that war are said to have been these : a Chinese 

 named Loli' came to Ba-mo and Kaung-toiln, with 3 or 400 oxen 

 laden with silk and other merchandize, and applied to the Ba-md 

 authorities for permission to construct a bridge to the north of the 

 village of Ndnbd, in order to enable him to cross the Tdpeng river. 

 The Ba-m6 officers observed, that they must submit the application to 

 the ministers at Ava ; and Loli' considering this answer as equivalent 

 * Lord of the white elephant, and Symes's Shem-buan. 



