TO THE COURT OF AY A. 
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should be able to render an account of its con¬ 
tents.” The individual in question answered 
quickly, “ I know nothing at all about it.” I 
have good authority for saying, that Dr. Price, 
when applied to to open and translate the first 
letter which arrived, positively refused compli¬ 
ance, and represented the practice to the Bur- 
man Government as both discreditable and dan¬ 
gerous. 
The old Myowun of Bassein, who still con¬ 
tinued to attend us, was in the habit of coming 
to us generally every morning and evening, 
sometimes in company with the chief of the 
guard of swordsmen. He came this morning 
to Mr. Judson with a proposal of a very ex¬ 
traordinary nature. The Burman Government 
had felt the greatest anxiety concerning the re¬ 
sult of the propositions given in by them at the 
last conference, and notwithstanding the pains 
taken to assure them to the contrary, both pub¬ 
licly and privately, and that such a thing is 
utterly repugnant to their own modes of con¬ 
ducting diplomatic matters, unreasonably be¬ 
lieved, or wished to believe, that the British 
agent possessed authority to restore the ceded 
provinces, and to remit the whole money pay¬ 
ment. I was led to believe from this circum¬ 
stance, and others which it is unnecessary to 
