TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
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Do you mean to make this an objection to keep¬ 
ing your engagement? Our Wungyi states 
that the whole money has been paid. 
E. It is a disputed account. I will not with¬ 
draw my promise, although I might be justified 
in doing so, as the payment of the whole mo¬ 
ney was a matter necessarily understood. 
The Commercial Treaty was here again in¬ 
troduced. 
E. In the last draft of the fourth article, 
there is a word substituted for that which was 
contained in the original draft, on which my 
engagement with you was made. This alters 
the whole sense of the Article, making it of no 
value whatever. I presume, this was a mis¬ 
take ; I beg you to correct it. 
The two drafts were handed to the Burman 
commissioners, and the alteration, or, perhaps 
more justly, the forgery, was pointed out to 
them. In the original draft it was stated, that 
the families of British merchants should be al¬ 
lowed to quit the country along with them. In 
the altered draft, the words to return , were 
substituted for to quit the country. This would 
have rendered the condition perfectly nugatory, 
and left the Burman law practically as it stood 
before; for no families could leave the country 
except such as had come to it; and to the de- 
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