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dabo; or the cession of which may be obtained, should it 
be found expedient, by the relinquishment of money or 
other territory. 
His Excellency the Right Honourable the Vice-Presi¬ 
dent in Council will observe, that the opinions expressed 
by the senior Commissioner, in a dispatch from the Com¬ 
missioners at Rangoon, dated the 15th August, in reference 
to the Martaban frontier, are fully substantiated by the 
results of the negotiation at Ava. The Saluen river, it 
will appear, was deliberately selected as the line of demar¬ 
cation, by the British Commissioners at Yandabo; the 
fullest explanations were afforded to the Burman Commis¬ 
sioners during the conferences, and they were not called 
upon to sign the Treaty, until they had ample time to 
deliberate upon its contents. It fortunately happened, that 
one of the Commissioners of Yandabo was also a nego¬ 
tiator at Ava, while the two interpreters were also present; 
so that the fairest and amplest opportunity was offered of 
invalidating the statements produced by me,—or of ad¬ 
ducing evidence of Burmese claims, had any existed. 
The question of emigration from the Burman dominions 
to the territories ceded to the British Government, was one 
which it was believed might have led to serious and difficult 
discussions with the Burman Court. This by no means, 
however, turned out in the sequel to be the case. The 
subject was not privately hinted at, nor publicly introduced, 
until the last conference but one. Upon that occasion, no 
claim was made to the individuals who had emigrated; and 
the sole object of the Burman Government seemed to be 
to sow dissension between those individuals and us, by re¬ 
presenting them as dangerous and disloyal persons. The 
fact is, that the question of emigration into our territories 
was one of local interest at Rangoon only ; that it excited 
little interest, and was little understood by the Court; and 
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