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declining either to receive Lieutenant Low [at ...] or meet him at Traang where he remained [upwards] of three Months. To that place however the [Rajah] deputed his Son, apparently with the view [of] discovering the objects of the Mission, but [without] any power to negotiate or enter into any [Settlement] or Agreement on the subject at Issue. The [tedious] and evasive communications only [produced] conviction on the mind of Lieutenant [Low that] the Rajah had no serious intention of [entering] any agreement, while the information received [from] other quarters, satisfied that officer that the [Rajah] did not possess the independent power and [ ] action contemplated by this Government, and no authority to conclude any definite [arrangements] on those points, the adjustment of which [formed] main objects of the Mission. Lieutenant [Low] therefore left Traang on the 1st Ultimo having [firrst] sent to the Rajah a sealed letter addressed to the [Phra] Khlang or Chief Minister of the King of Siam, [of which] a copy is enclosed, and to which no reply has yet [been] received.
3 Under these circumstances it now remains [for the] Government to consider in what manner they can promote the immediate objects pointed out in [your]
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3 Under these circumstances it now remains [for the] Government to consider in what manner they can promote the immediate objects pointed out in [your]
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