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men, when they called upon us after this affair, 
spoke freely upon the subject, laughed very 
heartily at the mishap of the Ministers, and 
seemed to consider the punishment as a very 
proper, necessary, and suitable one. 
I learnt last night, from good authority, that 
the Court Historiographer had recorded in the 
National Chronicle his account of the war with 
the English. It was to the following purport: 
—In the years 1186 and 87, the Kula-pyu, or 
white strangers of the West, fastened a quarrel 
upon the Lord of the Golden Palace. They 
landed at Rangoon, took that place and Prome, 
and were permitted to advance as far as Yan- 
dabo ; for the King, from motives of piety and 
regard to life, made no effort whatever to oppose 
them. The strangers had spent vast sums of 
money in their enterprise; and by the time they 
reached Yandabo, their resources were exhaust¬ 
ed, and they were in great distress. They peti¬ 
tioned the King, who, in his clemency and ge¬ 
nerosity, sent them large sums of money to pay 
their expenses back, and ordered them out of 
the country. 
