[26] Sangermano’s Description of the Burmese Empire, p. 58. [27] Prescott, Conquest of Peru, vol. ii. p. 80. [28] Ava, vol. ii. p. 137 and note. [29] Malcom, Travels, vol. i. p. 249. [30] My immediate authority is Sangermano, p. 60. This most lucid and interesting account of the Burmese empire, containing more than its title imports, deserves the most earnest attention of the historian. Compiled from Burmese documents, it bears the highest worth in itself. [31] Sangermano, p. 64. [32] Ava, vol. ii. p. 137. [33] In accordance with my suggestions at p. 16 of this work. [34] Thucydides, lib. i. c. 138. [35] Malcom, vol. i. p. 262. [36] Sangermano, p. 66. [37] Ava, vol. ii. p. 149 sq. [38] Page 74. [39] Ava, vol. ii. pp. 152-156. [40] Sangermano, p. 67. [41] My authority is, as usual, the excellent Sangermano, p. 68. [42] This shows how the Burmans fear _justice_. How deeply seated is this disorder, and who can unseat and drive it away? [43] I am indebted to Malcom, vol. i. p. 256, and others. [44] Report on Bassein. [45] Ava, vol. ii. p. 156. [46] Travels, vol. i. p. 256. [47] Ava, vol. ii. p. 157. [48] This is remarkably applicable to a certain European nation. [49] I should not have ventured to say as much as this, had I not found myself corroborated by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton. His remark is as follows:—“I should certainly have been silent, had I thought that Captain Symes or Mr. Wood’s inquiries on these subjects had prepared them to give their opinions with advantage. But I imagine that this has not been the case; and I hope the information I here give may be of use to professional men.”—MS. in the British Museum, Additional MS. No. 13,872. In the same collection of papers on Ava are a number of communications from Symes to the Marquis of Wellesley, in the course of his second embassy. It is but fair to add, that these letters appear written under more just impressions than his printed journal was. [50] Ava, vol. ii. p. 206. [51] Residence in Ava, p. 134. [52] Embassy to Ava, vol. i. p. 93 sq. [53] Governor or chief man. [54] Ava, vol. i. p. 98 sq. See also Cox, Residence in Ava, pp. 37-45. [55] Cox, on the contrary, was informed that there were five hundred and twenty wells: this, however, is ably shown to be impossible by Crawfurd, not by snappish contradiction, but by calculation. The captain was, evidently, misinformed. [56] Ava, vol. ii. p. 178. [57] Sangermano, p. 171. [58] Ava, vol. ii. p. 162. [59] Alves, quoted in Ava, vol. ii. pp. 167-9. [60] A tical is worth about two shillings and sixpence. This would be £6,250. [61] See Wilson’s Documents of the Burmese War, Appendix, p. xliv. [62] But, after all, this cannot be considered as other than the substitution of a light or heavy, as the case might be, personal service for a tax in kind or specie. The tax was taken in labour; that is all the difference. [63] Crawfurd, vol. ii. p. 175. [64] See Malcom, vol. i. p. 174. [65] Ava, vol. ii. p. 186.