TO THE COURT OE AYA. 
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have procured a translation, I shall be able to say 
whether I can receive it, or otherwise.— B. The 
letter is all right, and contains nothing improper. 
Why will you not receive it? 
E, I shall be able to judge of all this when I 
see it. Of the suitableness of what I take upon 
myself the responsibility of delivering to my su¬ 
periors I am the proper judge, and not the officers 
of the Burmese Government. You state that the 
letter is from the Wungyis at Ava. 1 was not 
the bearer of a letter to those officers; I was the 
bearer of a letter to the King. If this letter be 
an answer to that which I took to his Majesty, I 
will not receive it. The Wungyis must not ad¬ 
dress the Governor-General, who is their superior, 
unless in the form of a petition. If the letter be 
in this last shape, and have no reference to the 
letter which I brought for the King, I will take 
charge of it.— E. The letter is not from the 
Wungyis to the Governor-General, but from the 
former to “ the War Chiefs” in Bengal. 
Copy of the letter was here made, read, and de¬ 
livered. 
E — The contents of this letter have been ex¬ 
plained to me, and they appear to be suitable. I 
conceive it to be addressed from the Wungyis 
at Ava to officers of similar rank in Calcutta, 
and with this understanding I now take charge 
of it.” 
The Wungyi here produced two ruby rings, 
