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resuming our negotiations is held to be not very distant, and at that 
period, it is not improbable that a factory may be established, under 
the guidance of an Englishman. This, I presume, will be deemed 
the most eligible and certain method, of conducting the commercial 
interests of the Company, on a respectable footing, and with adequate 
success. 
The regulations for carrying the commerce of the Company through 
the dominions of Bootan, by means of the agency of native merchants, 
were settled by the treaty entered into by Mr. Bogle, in the year 1 7 75. 
The Daeb Raja having acknowledged to me, the validity of that treaty, 
it became unnecessary to insist on the execution of another; since no 
new privileges and immunities appear to be requisite, until the com¬ 
merce can be established on a different footing. 
With respect to the views and interests of the Raja of Bootan, by 
whose concurrence alone, the proposed commercial intercourse with 
Tibet can be made to flourish, I should be sorry to suggest a doubt, 
of its ever receiving a check from any conduct in that government, of 
an hostile tendency. During the long interval I necessarily passed in 
Bootan, 1 had an opportunity to judge of the Raja’s disposition; and, 
if an inference may be drawn from the particular civilities and atten¬ 
tion he shewed me, while residing with him, I should conclude, that 
he has a most entire confidence in the good faith and friendly disposi¬ 
tion of your government towards him. These favourable sentiments, 
even if the interests of the Booteeas were not so intimately interwoven 
with their connection with the English, there is every reason to believe 
are very far from the probability of a change. The present Daeb Raja, 
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