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APPENDIX. 
of Government, as well as in the confidential suggestions 
with which I had been favoured. 
The copious sketch of a Treaty which I had the honour 
to submit to the Government in my dispatch of the 5th of 
June, was soon discovered to be inapplicable to the pre¬ 
sent state of our relations with the Burmese Government, 
to the feelings, and the ascertained character of the Court. 
This document, which originally consisted of twenty-two 
articles, was therefore reduced to seven, before it was even 
proposed to the Burman Government. Two of these seven, 
which were afterwards objected to by the Burmese as not 
being strictly of a commercial nature, were abandoned on 
my part without much difficulty, in order to obviate the 
risk of exciting suspicion or jealousy, as well as with the 
hope of facilitating the attainment of other conditions, which 
appeared to be more essential. The Treaty, as it was fi¬ 
nally carried, consists only of four articles, upon which I 
proceed to offer a few remarks. 
The substance of the Treaty throughout is, with little 
exception, the same as that of the draft originally given in 
by me at the commencement of the negotiation; but the 
style and diction are entirely Burman, and no English ori¬ 
ginal exists. The motives which induced me to rest satis¬ 
fied with a Burman version only, are recorded on the pro¬ 
ceedings of the Mission, and I hope will be approved by 
the Government. I shall only add at present, that the terms 
and idiom being purely Burman, and the unrestricted choice 
of its own officers, there will, it may be hoped, be less risk 
of its being misconstrued or misapplied, than was found 
during the negotiation to be the case with the Treaty of 
Peace, of which I may truly affirm, that there was not one 
provision which the Burmese Court did not attempt, in 
some shape or other, to put a forced construction favour¬ 
able to its own interests, and too often in direct variance 
both with the letter and spirit of the agreement. 
