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ences which led to it, it was stipulated and 
agreed upon, that a commercial arrangement 
should be made on strict principles of recipro¬ 
city ; and that British vessels should be subject 
to no trouble or molestation at Burman ports, 
to which Burman vessels were not subject in 
British ports. The fulfilment of this condition 
absolutely requires that British merchants, at 
Burman ports, should not be molested in dis¬ 
posing of their lawfully acquired property, 
whatever it may be, in the manner they may 
deem most to their own advantage. What I 
have now stated will, I am convinced, be suffi¬ 
cient to convince you of the reasonableness and 
propriety of my requesting that you withdraw 
the objectionable clause, and recast the whole 
article. 
The third article, with the exception of the 
verbal alteration, which I have already proposed 
for designating the description of merchants 
that are to trade on both sides, and the conclu¬ 
ding clause, is unexceptionable. In this last, it 
is stated, that vessels whose breadth of beam 
exceeds eight cubits, shall trade, according to 
ancient custom. In lieu of this, 1 propose that 
the article should run, that such vessels should 
trade conformably to the ninth article of the 
Treaty of Yandabo. That article confers cer- 
