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B. According to the arrangement made at the 
last meeting, we have made the necessary altera¬ 
tion in the fourth article, and hand you a copy 
so corrected. As we have now granted you 
“ whatever you wished,” we request that you 
will not only put off the payment of the third 
instalment, hut of the fourth also for a similar pe¬ 
riod, as, unless this be done, the times of payment 
will come close upon each other.— E. My en¬ 
gagement with you was to request Sir A. Camp¬ 
bell to move the troops from Rangoon, without 
consideration to the time by which you may 
have exceeded the period of paying the second 
instalment, and to put off the period of paying 
the third instalment for one year from the date 
of the treaty to be concluded between us, pro¬ 
vided you granted a treaty conformable to the 
stipulations made at Yandabo. 
B. Do you mean that the inclusion of the 
second article, providing for the free exporta¬ 
tion of gold and silver, is necessary to fulfil our 
agreement with you ?— E. Certainly. I was 
most particular at our last conference in impress¬ 
ing that point upon you, and you seemed then 
clearly to understand it. 
B. We could wish that, in presenting this 
treaty to the King, we might be able to say, that 
the difficulties with regard to the fourth instal- 
