The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I March 1840

The whole of the rest of the hall was crowded with officers of less note except a space of 1p or 12 feet wide right down the centre where we were seated about one-third of the way up to the hall the presents immediately behind us.; Piatschadook Pia-pi-pat the Praklang's deputy and Pia-Choolia the chief of the natives of the Coromandel Coast immediately in front of us ; Mr. [...] the English ; and in return I assured him of the deep interest the Right Honorable the Governor General and high officers in India had in the welfare of Siam and their sincere wish for the continuance of the very friendly relations at present existing between the two countries. [...] I mentioned the facts of the case which were that the Chinese from the first had expressed an earnest wish to trade directly with us and in spite of the lateness of the season several of them had come to Mauhnain (sent by the head man of the caravan) after my first meeting them in Laos and so satisfied were they with the market that a large party had last year come to Zimmay where they had [...] I complained again of the detention of my letters contrary to the custom of civilized countries at Camboorie ; he excused the act on the ground that the customs of the Siamese and English differed ; the Mya-won dared not allow them to come on without reporting it to the ministers. [...] The Jaung-Kieuk of the Gyne district who had accompnied me with a view of obtaining the release of his wife (who had been separated from him at the emigration of the Wines from the district of NIartaban in 1816 without his knowledge or consent as he was at the time of the rising absent with the Myat-won of Martaban some miles from the town) who by Burman law and I doubt not Siamese law a