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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
at Yandabo, shall be conceded on your side. 
But I beg you to understand, that unless such 
ground can be shown, and such concessions 
made, the money payment must be punctually 
liquidated according to engagement. The 
whole of the third instalment, as you are aware, 
becomes due within one hundred and ten days 
from this date; and I will either wait here to 
receive it, the period not being distant, or the 
British Commissioners will send ships for it 
from Martaban to Rangoon, with a proper 
officer, agreeably to the additional article of 
the Treaty of Yandabo. 
“ In respect to the question of Munnipoor, 
Gumbheer Singh is declared by treaty to be 
the sovereign thereof, and the King of Ava 
engages ‘ not to molest him, but let him re¬ 
main.’ Munnipoor is therefore an independent 
country, and will descend as such to Gumbheer 
Singh and his heirs, according to the laws and 
usages of the Cassay people. Whatever terrh 
tory belonged to Cassay before it was subju¬ 
gated by the Burmans, or became tributary to 
them, will injustice belong to it now. If the 
Burmans be in actual possession of any portion 
of such territory, they will of course relinquish 
it. If Gumbheer Singh shall be found to have 
seized any portion of the original Bur man 
