TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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We now beg to say, that we have gone over the 
different articles of the draft you gave in, and 
have given our opinions upon such as our minds 
are made up upon. We wish you, however, to 
consider that nothing is as yet finally arranged 
or decided upon.— E. I consider this to be the 
case on both sides. 
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B. You are to be presented to the King to¬ 
morrow. Suitable boats will be sent down to 
receive you and the presents. We will send 
either elephants or horses for you to the land¬ 
ing-place, as you wish; but we think elephants 
most suitable. The boats will be sent for you 
immediately after breakfast.— E. I beg you will 
have the goodness to state when our next meet¬ 
ing is to take place. 
B. The festival, which commences to-mor¬ 
row, will last for three days. We wish to have 
the fourth day for deliberation, and on the fifth 
we will meet you here. 
The conference broke up at five o’clock, the 
Burman negotiators retiring apparently well sa¬ 
tisfied with the result. A good deal of desul¬ 
tory conversation and explanation took place 
during the discussion of the different articles 
in the draft, which it was found impracticable 
to note down at the time. Every thing mate¬ 
rial, however, has been noticed. 
