TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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of payment for three months beyond that time. 
This was the case when I left Rangoon, and I 
do not know how much longer you may not 
have done so since. We have surely a good 
right to prolong the period of our departure an 
equal time. This is the right by which we now 
stay. We shall not stay one day longer than 
you have exceeded the time in which you were 
bound to have made good the payment of the 
second instalment. 
B. The Wungyiand Wundauk, the commis¬ 
sioners at Rangoon, have officially reported to 
the King that the whole money had arrived at 
Rangoon within the hundred days, and that 
much time was spent in smelting, weighing, 
and paying it.— E. The treaty says, that the 
money is to be paid to us in one hundred days, 
and not that it shall arrive at Rangoon within 
that time. So far the treaty was infringed; 
but I have farther to observe, that if the Wun- 
gyi and Wundauk reported that the whole of 
the twenty-five lacs of rupees, or even the great¬ 
er part of it, had arrived at Rangoon, within 
the specified time, they deceived his Majesty. 
I was myself at Rangoon, and saw money re¬ 
peatedly arrive, which was paid over to us, and 
some, even as late as twenty days before my 
leaving that place. We were most anxious to 
