TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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ment were also removed in a similar manner to 
the third.— E. I believe you may safely trust to 
the generosity of the Governor-General. I will 
write on the subject, and recommend it. 
B. Could you not put off the third payment 
for one year from the period it is due?— E . As 
you are so very urgent, I will take upon myself 
the responsibility of meeting your wishes, by 
putting off the payment of the third instalment 
for one year, from the 15tli November, 1826; 
and the fourth also for a year, or until the 15th 
November, 1828. A regular instrument must 
be drawn up requiring the payments within 
those periods.— B. We agree to this.— E. You, 
of course, understand that this is conditional upon 
your granting the Commercial Treaty in the 
shape I want it ? 
B. We understand this perfectly. Will you 
not make the time from the 24th of February, 
as in the Yandabo Treaty ? — E. I will not. I 
cannot go a step farther than I have now done. 
B. We request that the next meeting may 
not take place to-morrow, but the following 
day.— E. I assent to this. You promised at 
one of our last meetings to deliver to me cer¬ 
tain intercepted letters from Munnipore. 
A private letter was here delivered by the 
Burman Commissioners from Lieutenant Gor- 
