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sion, was a certain native Portuguese, who was 
an officer of the .Burman mission to Cochin 
China in 1823 : he had been taken prisoner at 
Tavoy, on his return from Cochin China, and 
detained at Calcutta during the war. Notwith¬ 
standing the handsome and liberal treatment 
which he and his companions had there receiv¬ 
ed, his hostility to the British was inveterate. 
The King, I was told, listened to him, as he is 
too apt to do to all flatterers of whatever rank 
or condition, and he had been very active in 
giving the most unfavourable possible picture 
of the British power and policy in India. Among 
other statements calculated to mislead, he re¬ 
presented the office of the Governor-General of 
India as being exactly parallel to that of the 
Myo-wun, or Governor, of a Burman district. 
I had this information from such sources as 
left me no room to doubt its accuracy. 
His Majesty, as he was about to leave the 
hall, directed presents to be made to the Eng¬ 
lish gentlemen of the Mission. These consisted 
of a ruby, a piece of silk, and some lackered 
boxes, for each person. Those given to me 
might be worth about one hundred ticals, the 
others a good deal less. Mr. Judson was alto¬ 
gether left out in the distribution of presents. 
We could understand that he was deemed a 
