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B. Are these three articles conformable to the 
Treaty of Yandabo?— E. The articles are well 
enough, as far as they go ; but they do not fulfil 
the stipulations and promises made at Yandabo. 
B. If this treaty be incomplete, what do you 
want?— E. I want nothing more than the in¬ 
sertion of the second and fourth articles, with 
the corrections I proposed. 
B. There is little difference between us in 
the fourth article, and it amounts to this only, 
—whether it shall include a part or the whole 
of your subjects. With regard to permitting 
the families of merchants to quit the country 
along with them, can this be said to be of a 
commercial nature?— E. If a merchant come 
into the country for a temporary residence, as 
allowed in the first article of the treaty, and 
shall have a wife and children, is it not a griev¬ 
ous molestation and hindrance to prevent him 
from taking his wife and children along with 
him when he quits it. 
B. Agreeably to the seventh article of the 
Yandabo Treaty, on the payment of the second 
instalment the troops were to evacuate Rangoon : 
how is it, then, that they still remain there ?— 
E> You were to have completed the payment 
of the second instalment on the 4th of June. 
You infringed the treaty by delaying the period 
