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  were at Melloone. On the 14th, they had an interview with the Kee-Wongee, and on the 16th, it was intimated to them, that he had obtained full powers from his Court, and would be ready to receive them, at their own hour, the next day. On the 17th, they accordingly proceeded, in great state, to the house of audience, where it was settled, that the Burman minister and another person of rank should meet Sir Archibald Campbell half way between the two armies, at a village named Neoun-ben-zeik, to enter into negociations for the re-establishment of peace and amity; the terms of an armistice were also agreed upon, by which it was stipulated that there should be a cessation of hostilities till the 17th of October; the line of demarcation was drawn from Comma, on the western bank of the Irrawaddy, through Neoun-ben-zeik to Tonghoo; and the armistice included all the belligerent troops on the frontiers in other parts of the dominions of Ava, none of whom were to be allowed to make a forward movement before the 18th of October.

On the 22nd September, Sir James Brisbane, Knt. & C.B. who had been appointed to succeed Commodore Grant in the command of H.M. squadron in India, arrived at Prome, bringing with him the boats and seamen of the Boadicea frigate. On the 30th, Sir Archibald Campbell proceeded to Neoun-ben-zeik, accompanied by the naval commander-in-Chief, whom he had requested to act as joint commissioner. The ground was found prepared for the encampment of the respective negociators, and a Lotoo, or house of conference, erected in the intermediate space, equi-distant from the British and the Burman guards. On the 2nd October, two officers of rank arrived from the opposite side to conduct Sir Archibald Campbell to the Lotoo; Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Skelly Tidy and Lieutenant Smith were despatched at the same time to pay a similar compliment to the Kee-Wongce. After all the commissioners, with their respective suites, were seated. Sir Archibald opened the conference with an appropriate address to the Burman chiefs, who replied in courteous and suitable terms, and expressed their