" The Board of Managers," say The Director, play they, the abaolute maaler. j " are, indeed, masters in Fatherland, • • but we are masters in this land. As they decide, so 'twill go; there is no appeal." And it has not been difficult for them hitherto to put this in practice ; for the people were few, and the majority of these (28) very simple and uninformed; they, moreover, had business with the Directors every day, and if there were any men of intelligence among them, who could walk on their own feet, efforts were made to conciliate these. It was impossible at first fully to comprehend their policy, which was always artful and insidious, especially as it was so often successful in this respect, Director Kiert gaye and had sometimes quite ^ a long° duration. Director Kieft himself said, and out here that he was

Sovereign' ""!)«"'J ^'lo^^d othcrs to repeat it, that in this country he was Sovereign and the same Company"""" ""' "^ ^^ Priucc in Netherland. He was told so repeatedly here, and never made any particular objection to it. The refusal of appeal and other such acts, prove it so conclusively, that, in our opinion, it does not require any further evidence. stnyve»ani ai«o re- This present Director does, also, the same thing, for he too was quite at home

in refusing appeals. He also quotes right readily this maxim, " The Prince is si.jTesani applies above the law," and appliesit to his own case with so much arrogance, as to to himself ^ Ihe rr ' o taabOTMh^eirwr" make even himself ashamed. These Directors, then, having the power in their own hands, could do, and did whatever they chose, according to their good will and pleasure, and whatever was, must be right, because it was agreeable to them. 'Tis well known that those who arrogate to themselves, and exercise power, for the purpose of issuing suchcommands as they please, frequently command and requiremore than they really ought and whether it be proper or not, there are ;