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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAmarapura amount appear army Arracan arrival Assam Bandula bank Bassein Bengal breccia British army British Government Burman dominions Burmese Government called capital chief chiefly Chinese Chittagong considerable considered cotton Council Court of Ava cultivated district elephant English European favourable feet fifty five forests fossil four Gautama Governor half a tical heard honour hundred India inhabitants Irawadi island Karyens King of Ava labour land letter Majesty Martaban mastodon ment Mergui mese miles months Munnipore native navigation Negrais nerally occasion officers opinion Pagoda Pegu Peguans person population present Prince of Sarawadi principal prisoners Prome Pugan quantity racter Rangoon reign residence rice royal rude Sepoys ship Siam Siamese silver species square mile stockade Talains Tavoy teak temples territory thousand tion town trade Treaty Treaty of Yandabo troops upper provinces vessels village Wethali whole Woonghee Wungyi Yandabo Popular passagesPage 81 - For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Page 43 - Rangoon ; upon the future payment of a similar sum at that place, within one hundred days from this date, with the proviso as above, the army will evacuate the dominions of his Majesty the King of Ava, with the least possible delay ; leaving the remaining moiety of the sum total to be paid by equal annual instalments in two years, from this 24th day of February 1826, AD, through the Consul, or Resident in Ava or Pegu, on the part of the Honourable the East India Company. Page 81 - Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. Page 48 - Let us be subject to all the calamities that are within the body, and all that are without the body. May we be seized with madness, dumbness, blindness, deafness, leprosy, and hydrophobia. May we be struck with thunderbolts and lightning, and come to sudden death. In the midst of not speaking truth, may I be taken with vomiting clotted black blood, and suddenly die before the assembled people. Page 141 - In its ordinary acceptation as an adjective, it signifies extinct, as a fire which is gone out ; set, as a luminary which has gone down ; defunct, as a saint who has passed away : its etymology is from va, to blow as wind, with the preposition nir used in a negative sense : it means calm and unruffled. Page 40 - ... further stipulated, that the property of all British subjects who may die in the dominions of His Majesty the King of Ava, shall, in the absence of legal heirs, be placed in the hands of the British Resident or Consul, in the said dominions, who will dispose of the same according to the tenour of the British law. In like manner the property of Burmese subjects dying, under the same circumstances, in any part of the British dominions, shall be made over to the Minister or other Authority delegated... Page 36 - His Majesty the King of Ava renounces all claims upon, and will abstain from all future interference with the principality of Assam and its dependencies, and also with the contiguous petty States of Cachar and Jyntia. With regard to Munnipoor it is stipulated, that should Ghumbheer Sing desire to return to that country he shall be recognised by the King of Ava as Rajah thereof. Page 41 - The good and faithful ally of the British Government, His Majesty the King of Siam, having taken a part in the present war, will, to the fullest extent, as far as regards His Majesty and his subjects, be included in the above treaty. Page 38 - Government to maintain the relations of peace and amity between the nations, and as part indemnification to the British Government for the expenses of the war, his Majesty the King of Ava agrees to pay the sum of one crore of rupees. Page 40 - Government, with the others previous to the war, to be recognised and liquidated upon the same principles of honour and good faith, as if hostilities had not taken place between the two nations, and no advantage shall be taken by either party of the period that may have elapsed since the debts were incurred, or in consequence of the war; and according to the universal law of nations, it is further stipulated, that the property of all British subjects who may die in the dominions of His Majesty the... References from web pagesJournal of An Embassy From the Governor- General of India to the ... # John Crawfurd, Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General ... Browse the Southeast Asia Visions Collection Bibliographic information
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