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did not pay for one hundred and ninety, alleg¬ 
ing as a pretext the difficulty of counting and 
weighing ? 
E. When will your troops quit Rangoon ? 
— E. All I can say on the subject is, that if 
the second instalment was completed the day 
after I left Rangoon, which could not have 
been, our troops would certainly quit it in three 
months from that time, and probably much 
earlier. 
E. Granting, then, that we have exceeded in 
the period of payment, will you not write down 
now to request that the troops may be removed 
immediately from Rangoon, provided we accede 
to such a treaty as you require?— E. As soon 
as the treaty corrected by me this morning, 
and especially the second and fourth articles are 
signed, ratified, and delivered to me, I will write 
to Sir A. Campbell, stating that every thing has 
been settled here in conformity to the Treaty 
of Yandabo, and in a friendly manner; that 
Rangoon should be delivered to the Wungyi, 
and the troops embarked, without any regard to 
the time by which the Burmese Government 
may have exceeded the period of liquidation of 
the second instalment. 
E. There is good sense in this answer. We 
are worthy of each other, and there are now 
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