APPENDIX. 
IT 
missioners at Yandabo, in the conference of the 23d of 
February 1826, when it was expressly conceded that we 
had no intention of occupying Munnipore ourselves, as 
well as by the spirit of the instructions of Government, 
conveyed in the eighth paragraph of a dispatch to my 
address of the 80th of J une. 
By the strict letter of the Treaty of Yandabo, it does 
not appear that we are precluded from occupying the 
Munnipore territory, or from admitting Gumbheer Singh 
into the number of our tributaries; but, as no mention 
was made at the conferences of our intention of doing so, 
the Burmese Government have a fair claim to any doubt 
which may arise on the subject. Still, Munnipore must 
virtually be considered as an ally of the British Govern¬ 
ment ; and, in the event of the principality being endan¬ 
gered by the hostility of the Burmans, we shall become 
necessarily guarantees for the security of a State, the in¬ 
dependence of which we have ourselves established by 
Treaty; and of which the safety will probably be found 
a condition necessary to the preservation of peace, and 
the integrity of our frontier, at a point where it is unques¬ 
tionably the weakest. 
The Government will observe from the minutes of the 
conference of the 10th of November, that I was anxious 
to send a British officer across to Munnipore, for the 
purpose of collecting information, chiefly on the subject 
of the frontier between that State and Ava; and the 
Burman negotiators appeared at first to give their assent 
to this measure. After the conference in question, how¬ 
ever, neither this point, nor any other respecting Munni* 
pore, was brought forward by the Burman Authorities; 
and, on my part, I carefully abstained from renewing the 
subject in any shape, for fear of exciting the well-known 
jealousy of the Burmese Court on all such points, as well 
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