TO THE COURT OF AVA. 375 
at Mau-la-myaing, one of the thirty-two town¬ 
ships under the jurisdiction of Martaban ?” 
Mr. Judson arrived with the translation of my 
note, which, as well as the English original, was 
put into the hands of the Atwen-wuns, and 
read aloud by one of the Than-d’hau-thans. It 
was as follows :— 
“ I submit to you, in conformity to my pro¬ 
mise, a reply to the note given in by you re¬ 
specting the Saluen river. You desire to be in¬ 
formed why British troops had established them¬ 
selves at Molameng, on the eastern bank of the 
Saluen. I answer, because Mau-la-myaing is 
part of the territory ceded by his Burman Ma¬ 
jesty to the British Government, by the fourth 
article of the Treaty of Yandabo. In that arti¬ 
cle it is distinctly said that the Saluen shall be 
the boundary, or, as it is expressed in the Bur- 
man version, that it shall be 4 the partition’ be¬ 
tween us. In your note to me you repeat the 
same words yourselves. Nothing surely can be 
meant by an expression so unequivocal, but that 
the territory which is on one side of the river in 
question shall belong to you, and that which is 
on the other shall belong to us. Had the boun¬ 
dary of the Saluen river been inadvertently ad¬ 
mitted into the treaty by the Burman commis¬ 
sioners, and had that document been signed and 
