TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
5 IS 
vernment to treat with Maong-kaing. My in¬ 
structions direct me to discuss all such matters 
directly with the Government of his Majesty: 
will you therefore give me an order, directed to 
Maong-kaing, for the delivery of the prisoners ? 
B. The Wungyi Maong-kaing exercises the 
authority of a high commissioner, (Than-ta- 
man,) and it would be improper in us to con¬ 
trol his conduct. He will make no difficulties 
about delivering over the prisoners.— E. What 
difficulty can there be in giving me a letter 
signifying the wishes of the Government on 
this subject ? 
B. It is not necessary ; the Wungyi will do 
every thing of his own accord.” 
A respectable Mohammedan merchant, of 
the name of Mohammed Ally, had first at Ran¬ 
goon, and afterwards since he arrived at Ava, 
made application to me, to assist him in the 
recovery of property to the value of 10,000 
ticals, nominally owed to him by a private 
merchant to whom he had sold his goods. The 
real facts of the case, however, were, that on 
the breaking out of the war, the goods of Mo¬ 
hammed Ally, sold to a Burman merchant, and 
only in part paid for, had been seized and con¬ 
fiscated by the Burman Government, accord¬ 
ing to custom, as the property of an enemy. 
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