King Mindon himself had experience of various palace disturbances; in particular, he had received no advance warning of the plot to murder his heir, the Kanaung Crown Prince. The murdered Prince, on the day of the assassination, had received a hint about the plot of the Myingun and Myingondaing Princes and was in conference about how to defeat the attack when he fell into the hands of his enemies. 

The King was worried about this and, so that reports about anything that happened in the kingdom might reach his ears in good time, he set up a system of informers to collect news reports.

It is true that a system of supervision through informers did assist in control of the country but, looking at it from the other side, this system also provided the malicious with an opportunity of causing injustice through mischief-making. 

For this reason it was necessary that information coming from informers should be looked at with great care to check its legality. If we look at this case, however, there was no proper investigation of the information that was laid against the Yaw Atwinwun (It means 1, secretary of a government ministerial department. 2, the minister of the enterior in the days of Myanmar monarchy), and his ill-wishers were able to watch and estimate his circumstances so as to bring a charge against him from his casual words. There is a note in the Upper Burma Gazetteer that makes this clear.

(((When the Yaw Atwinwun was out of Mandalay, his enemies brought malicious reports to the King. They said that the Yaw Atwinwun always said that there was no harm in drinking liquor ; that he drank it himself; that when he was drunk he spoke against the King and other things. 

The King was easily roused to anger and sent the Artillery minister, Mahaminkhaung Nawyahta, with instructions to arrest the Yaw Atwinwun. The place of his arrest was Myingyan and he was brought to Mandalay in confinement. 

The King, without having any enquiry made by his officers, stripped the Yaw Atwinwun of his offices and kept him under house arrest in Amarapura for a time. Later the King learned that the accusations were false and regretted his action; he restored his unlucky official to his original position and reappointed him as the Shwepyi Atwinwun.

The Yaw Atwinwun was a man of keen intelligence in his office. He succeeded in whatever he worked at in accordance with this keen intelligence. It had come about for this reason that from his youth he had carried out duties of great importance. 

His sharp disposition, however, was one to bring him many enemies, but those who wanted to be at enmity could find no fault with the Yaw Atwinwun's ability. Consequently, it seems that they attacked him with the liquor business, knowing the King's personal prejudices and that he had a particular dislike of it. 

The Yaw Atwinwun had a good understanding of the life led by those who get close to and manage kings. Because of this understanding he had the strength to bear with his enemies. In the Chronicles, the Histories and other records we do not find him retaliating .)))

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