To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands. High and Mighty Lords. The year 1634 approaches now to a close, and the West India Company hath not, up to the present time, received the vote of the subsidy demanded by the Council of State, many months since, for its support for that year. Notwithstanding the Deputies from the XIX. have, with such great persistence, applied to your High Mightinesses therefor, from time to time.

92 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. And now clearly made manifest both to your High Mightinesses and to the respective provinces, that it is impossible for the Company to prosecute any longer the expensive war in Brazil, much less to accomplish any thing of advantage to this State. Unless your High Mightinesses continue to afford it liberal assistance, and not only promise the Company that, but also make them sensible of it. Meanwhile the Company abates nothing in the advancement of its affairs, but has done more than was expected from it. With what difficulty that was effected, your High Mightinesses can sufficiently understand, by comparing the heavy expenses of the war which it has now waged for so many years, with the subsidies voted us, and the trifling profits it has derived, up to this time, from the conquests. What the end of this is to be, we leave your High Mightinesses' prudent wisdom to consider. Of this we must, with all submission, warn your High Mightinesses; unless your High Mightinesses procure a vote of the required subsidies, and move the respective provinces, so that they will be received more promptly than heretofore, we see no prospect of meeting any longer the heavy expenses of the war. The great work in Brazil, which is now so far advanced, that an end to it is, in a manner, perceptible, will be interrupted and perhaps entirely fail, to the serious disgrace and injury of this State.