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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
your taking the paper, but you have publicly 
heard my sentiments. 
We have listened to the contents of the 
paper, but we are afraid to receive it. 
E, The paper is upon a public subject, and 
I think it ought not to be declined. Have you 
any objection that I send it to the Lut-d’hau ?— 
JB. We have no objection that you send it to 
the Lut-d’hau.” 
A Mr. Stockdale, an English merchant, who 
had been for some time in the Bur man domi¬ 
nions as a trader, died at Ava in 1823. His 
property, said to amount to twenty thousand 
ticals, was seized and appropriated to her own 
use by her Majesty the Queen, under pretext 
that Mr. Stockdale had no heirs in the country. 
This was done contrary to the wish of the mem¬ 
bers of the Lut-d’hau ; and notwithstanding the 
remonstrances of some European merchants, 
who were at the time at the capital, Mr. Stock- 
dale’s property had been claimed at Yandabo 
by the British commissioners ; but in conse¬ 
quence of the Bunn an deputies declaring their 
total ignorance on the subject, and there being 
no accounts ready to produce, the claim w T as 
not prosecuted. I had received, since arriving 
at Ava, communications from the agents of the 
late Mr. Stockdale, at Madras and Calcutta, 
