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approaching departure. We have acquainted 
him that we have furnished you with boats, and 
we have submitted to him your anxiety to have 
an audience of leave. He has expressed his 
pleasure to receive you, to-morrow morning, at 
the Elephant Palace, where there is to be the 
exhibition of catching a wild elephant, to which 
you are invited. Boats will be sent for your 
party, when the signal of three guns announces 
his Majesty’s coming out. 
E. We shall be in readiness to attend. I beg 
again to introduce the subject of the Bengal 
prisoners, discussed at our last meeting. I con¬ 
fine my demand at present to such persons being 
natives of the British provinces who were cap¬ 
tured during the war, although, by the strict 
words of the eleventh article of the treaty, all 
prisoners whatsoever are entitled to their re¬ 
lease. I hand you this paper containing my 
sentiments on the subject.” 
The paper alluded to was given in, in Bur- 
man, and read by Dr. Price. The following is 
a translation :— 
“ By the eleventh article of the Treaty of 
Yandabo, all English, American, and other white 
and black foreigners, who were prisoners at the 
time of making peace, were to be delivered to 
the English Commissioners and Envoys ; and 
