APPENDIX. 
9A 
and I am in hopes that the Burmese Court, through its 
ambassadors about to be sent to Bengal, may be disposed 
to enter into such an arrangement for their relief, as justice 
and good faith require. Promises to this effect were held 
out to me confidentially; but when I consider the disin- 
genuousness and pertinacity evinced by the Burmese Au 
thorities upon this subject in the course of the discussions, 
I do not venture to entertain any very sanguine hopes of 
success. 
The payment of the fourth and fifth instalments of the 
crore of rupees, due on the Treaty of Yandabo, was, as 
the Government will perceive by the proceedings, a subject 
of repeated discussions during the negotiation. It was first 
introduced in the propositions given in by the Burmese 
negotiators at the conference of the 3d of November. That 
document is obviously worded with studied ambiguity, and 
it is very difficult to collect from it to what extent the de¬ 
mands of the Burmese Government are intended to be 
carried. They amount, however, at least to a demand for 
the remission of the two last instalments. 
My reply to this paper is contained in a note delivered in 
at the conference held on the 5th of November. Govern¬ 
ment will there perceive, that I took upon myself the re¬ 
sponsibility of proposing to put off the period of paying 
the instalments for a limited time, on certain conditions, 
fully detailed on the proceedings. The motives which in¬ 
duced me to take this step are now to be explained. I 
was, in the first place, thoroughly convinced of the incapa¬ 
city of the Burmese Government to make punctual pay¬ 
ment of the instalments as they became due; and that there 
fore some arrangement to facilitate to them the means of 
payment was absolutely necessary, if for no other reason 
than to prevent embarrassment to ourselves. 
Of the poverty of the present Burman Government, as 
