read to the Assembly, complaining that he, the petitioner, hath not been able as yet to obtain from the West India Company, payment of his three years' services and other claims. After previous deliberation, it is resolved and concluded, to refer the petitioner hereby to the Courts of Justice.

States General to the Assembly of the XIX. [ From the Minute In the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ; File, West Indie. ]

To the Assembly of the XIX. of the West India Company, the SO"" August, 1643.

The States, &c. Complaints o( iheWhercas [complaints have] come now and again before us from the English '" ES|iand. '" residing in New England, against the Dutch settled in New Netherland; Therefore, we have resolved and concluded hereby to request and require you to take care that no acts of hostility do arise [on any pretence] between the English and Dutch nations; but on the contrary, that good friendship and harmony be maintained with the English. Expecting which.

Done 20* August, 1643.

The words within brackets, in the above letter, are supplied, as the MS. is imperfect, in consequence of the original being, as it is stated, partially illegible, from damp. -- En.

Resolution of the States General on a Report of the Proceedings of the XIX.

[From the Register of West India affairs, 1638-- 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague.]

Saturday, 7th November, 1643. Folio 106. The report being heard of Mess" van der Cappelle tho Ryssel and Hogendorp, sided'at'thl xix?" (Mr. Bickcr being absent) who by virtue of their High Mightinesses' Copimission, presided at the Assembly of the West India Company holden at Amsterdam, in September and Eeport,ctc. Octobcr last ; and the said report being exhibited and submitted in writing; It is