They complain of damages received from their enemies, the reparation whereof they demand of us; and of some trifling detentions at our hands which, we say and consider, are well founded; but we complain of their injustice, committed as well against the goods as against the lives of his Majesty's subjects; of having wronged us in our trade; of having dispossessed us of divers countries in the East and West Indies, where our right was indubitable. And if, in fine, in the excess of the evil, those violences explode, as they appear to apprehend, the remedy which ought to be applied, on the one side and on the other, is, first: to bring about a termination of those evils by a better administration of justice; and then, to reestablish by mutual good that ancient friendship which augmented, and can preserve, both their commerce offices,

and security. As for us, we shall not fail to render therein all the best offices and services dependent on us. And as regards his Majesty, the good and gracious disposition of his heart is sufficiently notorious to them and to all the world.

[Found as an appendix to the despatch of Mess" Joachimi and Brasser, of 23'' May, 1632.]

6Q NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Messrs. JoacTiimi and Brasser to the States General.

[ From the Original in tlie Royal Archives at the Hague ; PUe, Engeland. ]

High and Mighty Lords.

My Lords, This and the letter We Sent your High Mightinesses, on the 23"* inst., a certain unsigned ' writing. Sd, XeTiacerfn the hands of Mr. Tosbrreen, to extract the points ot handed to us on the day before by Secretary Kooke. We have since addressed •' ; ^jjg ^^\^ Secretary and complained -J ^ o of nothing of the contents thereof, consisting o ,„.„,. fn.mTnd'^to 'J^poH we also especially demanded that we should but retorts in place of satisfaction ; janM?;, 1682^ " receive an answer in the name of his Majesty, to whom we submited our m'S".'' 'i632?^°"" proposals, or that at least it might be expressly stated who those were who gave