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the Burmese at Kaung-toun upon these conditions ; namely, that the 

 Tso:buahs of Theinni, Ba-mo and M6:gaung, subjects of the king of 

 Av a, should be surrendered at Theinni ; that all the Chinese officers 

 and soldiers taken prisoners by the Burmese in the years 1765, 1766, 

 1767, and 1769, should he given up; and that ambassadors should 

 be sent by both sovereigns once in ten years, the armies of both 

 nations had retired; nnd that two officers, the Kue-chow-bo and 

 Kyi'n:men:ti'tu'ha, had much distinguished themselves. The empe- 

 ror of China was greatly pleased and desired to promote those officers ; 

 but two of the imperial kinsmen, Ha'-ta-yi'n and Tshi'n-ta'-yi'n, 

 with two Tartar nobles, the governors of Atsl-kyain and Maing.-thin, 

 submitted that they should' first be allowed to go down to M6:myin 

 and see how far the statements of the Kue-chow-bo were founded in 

 truth. These four individuals accordingly came down to Mo.myin 

 and sent a letter to the Burmese governor of Kaung-tc&u, in charge 

 of a subordinate officer and upwards of fifty men ; but the governor 

 finding from a translation of the letter, that its contents were very 

 unfriendly, seized and confined the whole of the Chinese mission. A 

 report of the Burmese governor's proceeding was immediately for- 

 warded to the emperor of China at Pekin, who ordered the Kue-chow- 

 bo to go down himself and see how the matter could be settled. 



The Kue-chow-bo -came down to Md.wiin with upwards of 1,000 

 soldiers, and sent a very civil letter to the governor of Kaung-toHn, 

 requesting him to release the Chinese party he had confined, and to 

 send back with them the letter which had been addressed to him by 

 the governors of Atsl-kyain and Maing-.thin, by order of Ha'-ta'-yi'n 

 and Tshi'n-ta-yi'n. The governor of Kaung-totin immediately 

 complied with this request ; and on the Kue-chow-bo perusing the 

 letter, which had been sent to Kaung-toun, and finding its contents 

 to be not only uncivil, but warlike and threatening, he forwarded it 

 to Pekin. The emperor was exceedingly angry, and ordered Ha-ta- 

 yi'n and Tshin-ta'-yi'n, with the two Tartar nobles «ho had written 

 the letter, to be sent up to Pekin in irons. Ha-ta-yi'n died on the 

 road, but on the arrival of the other three individuals at Pekin, the 

 emperor ordered them to be executed. In the same year, in October, 

 1770, the caravans of Chinese merchants came down as before to 

 Ba-m6, Kaung-to&n, and other places in the Burmese dominions. 



[To be continued.] 



