Your High Mightinesses will understand therefrom, that we (to our regret) are informed of the evil intentions and designs, maliciously undertaken, by a certain shipper and other persons there, directly contrary to the favorable charter and amplification granted by your High Mightinesses to this Company; and therefore, not only in opposition to your High Mightinesses' good intention and meaning, but also against the welfare and prosperity of this said Company, and consequently against your High Mightinesses' country and many of its good inhabitants. And whereas, it is of paramount necessity, for the maintenance of the aforesaid charter and its subsequent amplification, also, for the promotion of the Company's affairs, and especially for the removal and prevention of such evil designs and malversations, that provision be made, and such example at once determined, as will deter others from attempting the like for the future; We could not, therefore, refrain from communicating this to you. High and Mighty, in the form of a complaint, and requesting at the same time, that you. High and Mighty, would be pleased so to provide and prevented therein, and so to order, that not only the aforesaid ship should be forbidden undertaking its intended voyage, but that the Company may also be put beyond the risk of such evil practices being in future undertaken and attempted to its injury; and, likewise, to act further therein as your High Mightinesses shall consider necessary for the greatest advantage of this Company, and in keeping with your strong affection for its prosperity: And, whereas, the noble Mighty States of Holland are at present assembled, it is most humbly requested, that you, High and Mighty, would be pleased on the occasion, to order and direct, through those of the North Quarter, that the sails and guns be removed from the aforesaid ship; advising you.