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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
“ Burmese Propositions.— 1 . According 
to the Royal order of the English Ruler, ap¬ 
pointing a Commissioner, Crawfurd is a wise 
and distinguished man. He is to proceed to the 
Royal country of the most excellent glorious 
Burman Monarch, and respectfully there make 
obeisance and offer presents. And he is to dis¬ 
cuss mercantile matters, and whatever may be 
suitable for discussion. Thus he is commission¬ 
ed. What Crawfurd says, the English Ruler 
says. According to the Third Article of the 
Treaty of Yandabo, Aracan, Ramree, Sandoway, 
and Cheduba, must be given up ; and according 
to the Sixth Article, Y6, Tavoy, Mergui, and 
Tennasserim, with their territories. According 
unknown to them. During the war, a very curious illustra¬ 
tion of this fact came under the immediate notice of the Bri¬ 
tish officers in Ava. A person of some notoriety at the time, 
called the Raj-guru, a Brahmin, and the principal Court 
astrologer, had been employed by the Burmese Government 
as a secret emissary in Bengal. After his detection, he was 
employed by us as an agent, in our endeavours to bring about 
a peace. In this capacity he repaired to Ava, but never re¬ 
turned. After the capture of Melun, his Correspondence was 
discovered in the stockade, and it was found that he had been 
intriguing in our very camp, and furnishing the enemy with 
intelligence. In this Correspondence, when he spoke of the 
Governor-General personally, he invariably and unceremoni¬ 
ously gave him the name of “ Company,” and no other. 
