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Fort Cornwallis, The 23rd March 1826 complexioned man of about 38 years of age, and at home usually wears no other covering than a coarse Madras chintz round his waist. In matters of trade, and in making what is called insisting a good bargain, he is described as singularly acute and cunning, but he is as much fit to be the Foreign Minister of Siam, use Bunea in the Bazar of Calcutta, one of which tribe he certainly resembles very much in person, as well as, character. I have endeavoured to have the affairs of our mission transferred tot he department of the Chakri and Kalahom, by representing that the practice of placing all foreign Envoys in charge of the Prak Klang, arose from all such persons having hitherto visited Siam for objects of purely a commercial nature - but that our mission being connected with the far more important objects of war and mutual boundaries
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