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thirty-two provinces of Martaban, without being injured 
in their common walks and abodes, are to be collected 
together, to be protected, and to remain in tranquillity. 
These facts are known and are consistent with the terms 
of pacification between the nations. There is a royal 
order that messengers with a letter shall be dispatched 
from the Royal Brother Governor of Taongu ; they are 
accordingly dispatched. As to the order of the most 
glorious Sovereign, which has been received, it purports 
that in the contest with the English Military Comman¬ 
ders, men in official capacities, the poor, and the servile, 
who have been taken prisoners, or have sought their 
protection, shall not be considered as guilty, but shall 
dwell in peace. The tranquillity of the inhabitants of 
the villages and towns which have been restored by the 
English Commanders is a matter for their reflection. This 
is the information sent- 
1187, waning of the Moon Tan-gu 13th 
day, 1826, April 4th. 
No. V. 
FORM OF BURMAN OATH. 
I will speak the truth. If I speak not the truth, may 
it be, through the influence of the Ten Laws of Demerit, 
viz. passion, anger, folly, pride, false opinion, immodesty, 
hard-heartedness, and scepticism ; so that when I and my 
relations are on land, land animals, as tigers, bilus, ele¬ 
phants, buffaloes, poisonous serpents, scorpions, &c. shall 
seize, crush, and bite us, and we suddenly die. May the 
