*,* Inthe year 1649, delegates were sent from New Netherland to Holland to obtain redress of various grievances of which the Colonists of the day complained. A number of representations were made by the complainants as well as by the government. Of these Van der Donck's Vertoogh and Secretary Van Tienhoven's answer, haye been published in the Collections of the N. Y. Hist. Soc., 2d. Ser. ii. The 'Breeden Raet" or Full Information to the United Netherland Provinces, is another of the publications called forth by the same circumstance. It was printed at Antwerp originally in 1649. It consists of a Dialogue between eight persons and appears to be a strong attack on the administrations of Directors Kieft and Stuyvesant. A brochure, made up of Extracts from this work haying recently appeared in Amsterdam, a copy was obtained for -- the State Library which isnow reprinted, Hitherto, the work has been unknown to bibliographers.

GOVERNOR KIEFT'S ADMINISTRATION.

B. Passing over several minor abuses, in order to come to the tyrany which ruins the whole country, you must know that Governor Kieft had for a long time secretly intended to begin a war with the savages of New Netherland, because they had refused, on reasonable grounds, to give him a certain contribution, alleging they were not obliged to give it to the director, or to the Dutch :

1. Not for the sake of the soldiers, since they did them no service, in case of war with other tribes ; for that they crept, together like cats upon a piece of cloth and might be killed a thousand times over, before news could be got to the fort, which was at a great distance from them ; still less that they could be delivered or seconded in time by its soldiers.