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those legislatures, as a removal of one of the securities of pro-
perty invested in the coronies ; and they know that the hare stig-
gestion of such interference has contributed to the discredit
which already attaches to West India securities.
That the conduct of the Colonial Legislatures respecting the
registry laws, together with the zealous reception and liberal
support of the religious establishments with which they have
been favoured, prove the good-will of the colOnists, and their
inclination to acquiesce in those views of the parent Legisla-
ture which ;are directed to objects of unquestionable utility,
provided theybe secured against attacks upon their constitu-
tional privileges, and those rights of property which have been
established under titles and sanctions as valid as the law could
give them.
That your petitioners feel themselves authorized to declare,
that the opinions which in 1823 were expressed to his Majesty's
Ministers by several• possessors of colonial property resident in
this country, and which have often in discussion upon this sub-
: ject been referred to, were directed solely towards measures of
amelioration, and did neither contemplate any compulsory
emancipation of the slaves, nor any constraint upon the Inde-
pendence of the Colonial Legislatures.
That Great Britain, if she have the will, may doubtless im-
pose upon her colonies a constraint which they' cannot resist;
and it is equally true :hat precipitate acts of power might pro-,
duce ruinous extremities which the Mother Country did not
contemplate, and which she might in vain attempt to remedy;
but the attribute of the British Legislature is justice, and to
that your petitioners will make their appeal. Confident in
their undeviating attachment to his Majesty's person and GO.
vernment, and conscious of no crime by which their title to
protection is forfeited, they do respectfully, bttt firmly prefer
their claim to full indemnification for all injury which cons
straint and force may inflict upon that property. which, what•
ever may have been the circumstances of its original acquisi•
tion, is held, as it now stands, under the solemn guarantee of
British laws.
That your petitioners cannot conclude without noticing, that
in many of the petitions to your Right Honourable House,
which ask its interference with the colonial legialatures, there
is a prayer, that in respect to the West India colonies the
mother country will depart from that established policy by
which the produce of capital and industry, which is pertly and.
intimately 13ritish, and situated in parts of the empire whose
commerce the mother county stricty controls, has a protection'
afforded to it in the home consumption over that which it'
foreign, or brought from appendages of the empire not so con-
trolled, and less identified with the resources and interest of the
mother country.
That this prayer, if traced to its source, would, as your pen-•
tioners believe, be found to originate in interest of commercial
rivalry, since it is at variance with a spirit of humanity towards.
the slave, whose well-being cannot possibly be promoted by
any proceeding which tends to impoverish his master.
Upon the grounds which your petitioners have now stated,.
they humbly pray,—
That your Right Hon. House will, by a legislative declara-
tion, or by such other means as to your wisdom shall appear
most expedient, restore to the property of your petitioners, and
of other British subjects connected with the Wrest India colo-
nies, that credit and confidence which is ever due to property
protected by British laws, and also that your Right Hon. House
will forbear to adopt towards the local Legislatures in the West
• India colonies any measures which may be at variance with the
rights of internal legislation which they have so long curt-
, cised.

PROME, Nov. 5, 1825.

(E.rtract of a Letter from an Officer.)
We are again to start for a very long march of about
300 miles. We shall, however, at its conclusion, reach the far
famed capital of this empire, and I have no doubt but it will fall
into our hands without either much resistance or loss. The Court
of Ave is composed of the most extraordinary beings that the
annals of history can chew ; for it will scarcely be believed that;
after the severe lessons they have received, and impressed es they
must be with our strength, all endeavours at pacification NW!
been rejected by them. They sent down Ambassadors to
try
with us : and after two months' armistice, during
chiefs fell in love with us, the Kiug, it is said, has iterated on his
poor subjects being once more led to the slaughter. The I'l
Woongie, Prime Minister of the Empire, came down investeu
with full powers to treat; but having ascertained the terms eaf
which we would retire—namely, the payment of the expellee' e,
the war, the possession of Arracan, and the country south la
the Salamy River—he declared he could not ratify the tern?!
without the previous sanction of the golden-footed ,bonne
The fact is, the King of Ave is still in ignorance of Otar
real strength; for such is the despotic rule of this nere°nage'i
and so invincibly proud are they in the immediate sphere, that if
is well known he has been but partially informed of hieen It
the war. It is confidently asserted, that he slit open moue le,
convey to the Golden-f
of the poor man to whose lot it fell to
the terms of the English. He was in so great a rage, they_se,;
that he sent orders for his warriors to march down and attack us
immediately, although at that time the line of demarkation
.ndB
been defined, which was not to be crossed by either pattY
the armistice. The poor old Kee Woongie, who is reallY ‘l,`;
disposed and good-natured and reflecting person, was eedlY 814 tan io
at the alternative in which he was planed : to advance to eet
death—to linger, after the issuing of the despot's mandate, !a.'
equally fatal ; he therefore, like a wise man, called a council of o
and said, that during the armistice, if the Burmese Chiefs Pa`sa
ed the boundary, the name of their nation would be sullied!.!,l,
that he valued his honour too much to meet death whilst 10111.:1,1,
breaking his faith. The rogues who her
hint were delight"
which their
such an excuse, and they accordingly put it oft They are
suheacrctesilsyosficiLfoforthteherweari,s gain nothing by eve) 4.:1
as
suchthey thingci
as amor patriw tObefew.-
amongst them.
The war cannot cease unless the Court of Ave succumb_; 461
they affect to be the strong people they once absurdly' Mg,
themselves ; but it will not do—the few eyes that will m‘7„sas
must ere long be opened—and the arrogant blockhead, who Pr,r
himself the Golden Monarch, and master of all the elephants '-
the world, will soon learn that the boast of riches he does not Pe%
sess cannot avert the decrees of an Almighty Being, and that
is i
I
usurped title over such wonderful creatures as elephants will
ucb
him little, while he lacks the good sense they posses to 4 VI
greater degree.
Despots are diminishing fast in this age of reason and libeit).;
and I am led to believe at times that the hand of Pmvideno
singular manner in forwarding the 0., 4',:
here displayed in a very a
design of our Saviour. Of all the Eastern nations, 11°*.' 11).1
Burmalt has no caste to which he is higotted ; the lowest
venture to say, are so capable of being speedily civilised. pc
aseohesve
them can read, and they are intelligent and well behaved' I fly;
learned their language, and can read, write, and talk it giLee,n for
although far from copious, it is difficult to acquire therougloy
the idioms are plentiful, and the honorific titles are ri(i tsice
numerous. These last we do not much require to learn, for 1 so
it we shall not address any of them in a cringing Itturntfater
our native bluntness will cause us to despise those sch°l7,"a sew
ing speeches in conversing with free-born Britons.
,
bento
100 I
try, under proper Government, might easily tie stip.
a complete garden, for the soil is rich and abundsa,es, is
plied with water. The Irrawaddy is one of the noblest cotdd
the world ; here it is deep enough o float many ships of n'- ikeats)
they manage to stem the continual stream of three or Ml* otets
which comes from regions unknown, to mix with the bi:iin,Y.,pg the
of the Bay of Bengal. It rises upwards of thirty feet uti.n-aseitle)
freshes of the monsoon, and by overflowing its banks falrA.l,olllo-
- a east expanse of water, which strangers
wo
nished to see, if they were to arrive now that it bee
eed or
The houses of the poor people, in consequence of coeteincbee
pression, are of the most flimsy construction and of th bert
material, for they often migrate in shoals, and freque2 )re'
tidy
themselves in thick jungles, or take to the hills, we,e 0,1014
defy the power of their tormentors, and becozne Pi° ,hoot
by wholesale,. because they must eat and drink. I awhile e
prepared to defend these poor creatures against the chyle
being faithless and ungrateful. I think they are niiheland a
bad nor so contemptible as they are repreoeuted• wig
starved wretches, four in number, whose lives I Preilnobtleat
who fattened on the little I could give them, were, lc'
frightened into desertion, for the cruel Bundoolse,i't oighia
known, threatened unexampled tortures to any tihe gio)11
be found in the service of the English, when
drive us into the sea. It is quite gratifying t° t"s
ty
minds, to look around Prome, at this motile° it' iiither
the multitudes of poor people who have flocked easaei
enjoy that comfort among their enemies svhichnen and
experience in the vicinity even of their co "7;1-orb °i
friends. The inhabitants of several villages to the too liter
east have at last been driven to the necessity of tlYi"g ogea!:
houses, the banditti have become so cruel and toulAite, 00
and here they congregate as the only place where
_rr'electeu.:
treated like human beings. The British name is ",per Privo
and it would be an easy matter to depopulate the
a
vitas, if our Government would resolve in keeping.i.i to u:,
southward of Pronto.. The greatest anxiety previllive g 0 so! at',
ultimate intentions; and we are daily told, that evtent
they will follow, for fire and sword will every whels*! "ciow e o
ad as a revenge for their having lived under' the Da
wings.

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