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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
for the purpose of making fair copies of the pro¬ 
posed treaty, should I accept it. Under the be¬ 
lief that farther discussion would serve no useful 
purpose, and might even produce an unpleasant 
degree of irritation, I resolved to accept of the 
proffered document, provided it contained no¬ 
thing extravagant or improper. 
The conference commenced as follows :— 
“ B. At the last conference you stated, in 
reference to the Commercial Treaty, that you 
would insist upon nothing which it would be 
unpleasant to us to grant. We have now pre¬ 
pared such a treaty as we are disposed to give. 
If you accept of it, we will cause two copies to 
be made. 
The paper was here given in, and proved to 
be the draft heretofore agreed upon ; the second 
article, providing for the free export of gold 
and silver, being omitted; and that clause of 
the fourth article, now become the third, allow¬ 
ing the families of merchants to quit the coun¬ 
try, being struck out. 
E. I agree to the treaty as you now present 
it, and I am ready to sign and seal it. As there 
were considerable discrepancies between the 
Burman and English copies in the Treaty of 
Yandabo, and as, out of consideration to you, 
the Burman copy has always been acted upon, 
