TO THE COURT OF AYA. 
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and night to consider the subject, these com¬ 
missioners deliberately signed the treaty. The 
At wen-wiin Men-gyi-maha-men-’hla-thi-ha-thu 
was one of the commissioners who negotiated 
the Treaty of Yandabo, and who signed and 
sealed it. He is now also a negotiator ; he is pre¬ 
sent here, and he knows all this. The teachers,* 
Judson and Price, acted as interpreters for the 
British and Burman commissioners. They are 
both here before us now, and will corroborate 
the statements which 1 make. I beg you there¬ 
fore to interrogate them. 
“ In your note you stated that no part of the 
province of Martaban is specified in the fourth 
article. When the treaty was made, neither 
the English nor the Burmese commissioners 
knew distinctly the townships of Martaban, 
which are on the east of the Saluen ; and there¬ 
fore, in order to comprise in one word all these 
townships, without specifying their names, they 
said, “ Let the Saluen river be the partition be¬ 
tween usthus fixing on the best, the most 
obvious, and the most definite boundary for the 
territories of the two Governments. You far¬ 
ther state, that it is provided in the fourth ar- 
* The name given by the Burmese to the Christian mis¬ 
sionaries, and the same which is often applied to their own 
priests. 
