We have, therefore, deemed it proper and necessary to send Your Honors the aforesaid Petition, and reflecting on theconsequeuces which may arise to the injury of the Company by disputes with the French, hereby recommend you to endeavor that this matter be arranged by agreement; either that your Honors receive the ship and cargo by purchase from the Petitioner, or, should this not be effected, cause him to enter into bonds, that the ship will not go within the limits of your Charter; or that some other amicable arrangement may be discovered whereby both sides may be satisfied. Whereunto awaiting. Done the 6"- April, 1624.

Secret Resolution of the States General on the iproposed Union of the West India Companies.

[ From the Register of Secret Resolutions of the States General, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, the 9"" of April, 1624.

En xlT"^' Mess" van Zoelen, Duyck and Magnus have reported that they have, with Instruction for the his Excellency, reconsidered the resolution adopted on the 22"^ March last, on the Ambassadors. pojnts left opeu for the further Instruction for the Ambassadors to England, and '^ '^ Coalition of theWest , • i t •

India Company. especially the 4"", V"" and S'*" points of the above mentioned Instructions concerning,

^d'i'STc^lTwar! first: the West India Company; secondly: the aid that should be promised from uiiiiary aiTairs. fj^jg gj^jg {„ g^se the King go to war ; and, thirdly: if some regiments might be °' new soidtere." exchanged, new levies for old experienced soldiers; and, conformably to the advice of his Excellency, it is resolved, on the first point: That the declaration of the Assembly of the Nineteen on this matter must be waited for, to which purpose their High Mightinesses' Deputies now returning to that Assembly, are directed, moreover, to insist thereon by resolution, in order to send copy thereof to the Ambassadors.