TO THE COURT OF AYA. 
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man Government: they cannot resist the temp¬ 
tation of intercepting them, and they never make 
the least scruple of breaking open seals. 
Nov. 10.—The conferences were renewed at 
one o’clock to-day, and began with the question 
of Munnipore. The Burrnan negotiators laid on 
the table a map exhibiting the frontier between 
Munnipore and the Burrnan territory according 
to their own views. In the course of the con¬ 
ference, maps of Mergui, Tavoy, Ye, and Mar¬ 
taban, were also produced: these were all of 
great size, painted on cloth, and as rude as 
possible. The maps of the southern provinces 
were all old, but that of the Munnipore frontier 
had every appearance of being recently pre¬ 
pared, and, I have little doubt, was fabricated 
to answer the particular object they had in view, 
-—that of claiming a large portion of the princi¬ 
pality of Munnipore. These documents made 
the Burrnan frontier extend nearly to the walls 
of the Cassay capital. The negotiators then read 
a statement exhibiting that Gumbheer Singh 
had, since the termination of the war, appro¬ 
priated certain districts belonging to the Bur- 
man Government, and that British officers were 
present at Munnipore countenancing his pro¬ 
ceedings. This was followed by a very long 
paper giving a mythological account of the ori- 
