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TO CHATEEGAON.
103
cribed at the request ofMolweeSyyid Ubd Ool
Ulee Suddur Umeen of the Zilla of Chutgao^—
may his prosperity and grace be perpetual!
'Adverting to the record,—Although the
tolly-characterized Burmahs, by the impulse of
sordid passions, in the paroxysm of satanic
temptations, and the converse of their ancient
abodes and paternal habitations,—not content
with the dominions entrusted to them, without
mutual enmity, or any thing having been re-
quired from them, exceeded their boundary and
authority, framed unjust pretexts of dispute
concerning the island of Shahpooree, and Teek
Naaf contiguous to it, and committed therein
much violence and oppression.
' The officers of the Government of the Ho-
nourable Company, in advertence to the terms
which had formerly prevailed, made great ef-
forts to preserve peace; but the Burmahs were
not susceptible of shame. With the miser's
avarice, and inverted fortune, they raised the
standards of hostility, and, with an army of
more or less than 30,000 men, surrounded Ham-
hoo joom, and attacked the small force of 6 or
700 men of the Honourable Company's army,
posted there as a measure of precaution. The
officers and men, for four days and nights,
without food and water, fought with such va-
lour, that their fame has reached the skies.
103
cribed at the request ofMolweeSyyid Ubd Ool
Ulee Suddur Umeen of the Zilla of Chutgao^—
may his prosperity and grace be perpetual!
'Adverting to the record,—Although the
tolly-characterized Burmahs, by the impulse of
sordid passions, in the paroxysm of satanic
temptations, and the converse of their ancient
abodes and paternal habitations,—not content
with the dominions entrusted to them, without
mutual enmity, or any thing having been re-
quired from them, exceeded their boundary and
authority, framed unjust pretexts of dispute
concerning the island of Shahpooree, and Teek
Naaf contiguous to it, and committed therein
much violence and oppression.
' The officers of the Government of the Ho-
nourable Company, in advertence to the terms
which had formerly prevailed, made great ef-
forts to preserve peace; but the Burmahs were
not susceptible of shame. With the miser's
avarice, and inverted fortune, they raised the
standards of hostility, and, with an army of
more or less than 30,000 men, surrounded Ham-
hoo joom, and attacked the small force of 6 or
700 men of the Honourable Company's army,
posted there as a measure of precaution. The
officers and men, for four days and nights,
without food and water, fought with such va-
lour, that their fame has reached the skies.