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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
from Yandabo, to announce the conclusion of 
Peace. You must, of course, know very well 
who they are. One of you was a Commissioner 
at Yandabo at the time, and therefore con¬ 
cerned in selecting the officers in question. 
Among European and other civilized nations 
living in amity, the opening of public dispatches 
and private letters is reckoned an act at once 
dishonourable and criminal. The messengers 
who received charge of this letter and opened it 
deserve punishment.— JB. It was not sealed. 
E . That is of no consequence, as it ought, at 
any rate, to have been delivered. It was inter¬ 
cepted and detained. 
The Burman commissioners seldom arrived 
before one o’clock, and much time was always 
lost in copying their papers. The present dis¬ 
cussion was put an end to by its becoming dark. 
In the course of it, it was discovered that the 
letter addressed by Captain Grant to Sir A. 
Campbell was not the only one which had been 
opened and intercepted by the Burman Govern¬ 
ment since the Peace. Several private letters 
appear to have been treated in the same way. 
Mr. Judson heard one of the Atwenwuns, while 
we were sitting down, say to an individual near 
him, “ It was you who were ordered to open 
and translate such and such a letter,—you 
