Did ever the duke of Alba do more evil in the Netherlands ?

F. Certainly you have such Dutch Governors or directors who. honour and respect the duke of Alba.

B. Yes sir, it isa scandal for our nation ; and if silence would have remedied it I should never have mentioned it. But information has been given of it in the proper quarter, and not only it has not been remedied, but it has gone still worse as you shall hear directly.

H. But did the savages suffer this so quietly 2

B. Oh no sir. As soon-as they found how the Swannekens treated them, they killed all the men they could lay hands on, but I never.heard that they did any harm to the women or children. Besides this they burned and destroyed ajl the houses, farms, barns and everything they could come at, so that they began a declared and destructive war.

C. Quicquid delirant reges plectuntur achivi.

B. Iam told for a fact that a certain skipper Isaac Abrahamsen, having saved a young boy, and hidden him under the sails in order to give him to one Cornelius Melyn, towards morning the poor child, overcome with cold and hunger, made some noise

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and was heard by the soldiers, 18 Dutch tigers, draggea from under the sails in spite of the endeavors of the skipper, who " was alone against 18, cut in two and thrown overboard.