This Deponent further saith, That by the said Capt van Bruo-/is direction, he lookt over tlie Letters sent fi-om this place, on board the said Sloop, for England, and put them into a Bag, and the Bag into the said van Brugh'S Chest, but that he did not then perceive any Letters directed to France. -- That this Deponent, about a day or two after he saw the said van Brugken in France, he acquainted him with what he had discovered in the aforesaid letter. And further tliis Deponent saith not.

M. VAN NiEWENHUYSEN.

Sworn before a Committee of the Council, the 25th of February 1707.

Geo. Clarke. Mew-York, April 19, 1708. The afore-written is a true Copy of the Original in my Office,

Geo. Clarke.

John van Brugh of the City of New- York, Marriner, being sworn upon the holy Evangelists, saith. That he sailed from this Port of New-York in the year 1706, Master of the Sloop Constant Ahigal, That he was taken by a French Privateer about 50 Leagues from the Lands end of England, on or about the 9tliday of November, 1706, Morris JViewe?ihuysen being at that ttme his Mate. That the first time the Deponent saw th« said Morris JYiewenhuysen, after they were carried to France, tlie said JVieioenhuysen told him that one Johii Thompson (who was Boatswain of the said Sloop) found some Letters on board the said Sloop directed to France, under cover to some persons in England. That he likewise told him, tlie Contents of the said Letters were to this effect, That if the French would oome to New- York, the place lay in a disorder. That the said John Thompson likewise informed him to the same effect, but that not nnderstanding French, he told this Deponent, he had his information from the said Morris JVieivenhuysen.