All which wares, sold and distributed among the good inhabitants, were consumed here and conveyed elsewhere, and therefore enriched your High Mightinesses' subjects, and increased the revenue- The damage done thereby to our enemies, is easily estimated. We have, moreover, captured some even of the King of Spain's galeons, hitherto considered invincible, besides some other of his men of War, exclusive of more than two hundred ships and barks which we have taken from his subjects, and partly appropriated to our own use, and partly destroyed. Our ships and fleets also reduced, and for a time kept possession of, the rich and mighty city of St. Salvador, in Brazil ; sacked Porto Rico; pointed out the way to seize its exceedingly enclosed harbors, and have destroyed the castle of Margrita. By all which acts have we not only drained the King of Spain's treasury, but also further pursued him at considerable expense. We say, exhausted his treasury -- First, by depriving him of so much silver, which was as blood from one of the arteries of his heart. Secondly, by &c. Your High Mightinesses' Humble Servants, The Deputies of the Chartered West India Company at the Assembly of the XIX. ( Signed ) Ant' Godin, Symon van der Does. Marcus van Valckenburch, de Moor, Jo» DE Laet, Diederich Scherff, PiETERzoNS, Abraham Oyens, J. Van der Nyenbur«, Wefrinck.'

' The above document will be found entire in Aitzema, Stoat en Oorhgh, folio, I., 902 ; 4to II., 912, -where it is signed by: Ketnibr Rkael, a. Pietersons, Didrich ScHEKr, Antoni Godin, Gerbit tan Ktburgb, Abraham Otens, I. DK Laet, Symon Verdoes, Albert Wtffbinck. Mabchs van Valckenburgh Johan de Moob, '