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operation on any great scale. By commencing in our 
commercial dealings with the Burmese on terms of equal 
and reciprocal advantage, we shall secure their hearty con¬ 
currence in our views; and as the traffic between the two 
countries may extend, and the value of it come to be better 
known to the Burman Court, we may reasonably indulge 
the hope, that it will more readily listen to any farther 
propositions connected with commerce which we may then 
bring forward, and consent to an arrangement for granting 
to us such exclusive privileges as, with our farther expe¬ 
rience of their character and conduct, we may deem it ad¬ 
visable to purchase in the mode contemplated. In the 
existing uncertainty, with regard to the ultimate disposal 
of our territorial acquisitions on the Martaban and Ten- 
nasserim coast, his Lordship in Council would be unwilling 
to enter into any complex commercial arrangements which, 
after all, might prove to be of little practical value. 
On the whole, it appears to his Lordship in Council the 
most advisable course to simplify, as much as practicable, 
the terms of commercial relations with the Government of 
Ava, and to avoid going into many of the details contained 
in your sketch of a Commercial Treaty, which, it is to be 
apprehended, would only tend to excite suspicion and jea¬ 
lousy, and be followed by few practical results. His Lord- 
ship in Council is happy to observe, that in the ninth para¬ 
graph of your letter you appear yourself to be of opinion 
that it would not be politic to come to a hasty decision on 
the relinquishment of the remaining instalments, and that 
farther inquiry and experience are necessary. 
6.—On the subject of the establishment of a Consul or 
Commercial Agent at Rangoon, discussed in the eleventh 
paragraph of your letter, his Lordship in Council deems it 
sufficient to observe, that under the present impression of 
the inexpediency of maintaining permanently a Resident at 
