We call God to witness our sincerity, that we have never, knowingly or willfully, intended injury or wrong to any man; but a peaceable and God-acceptable government to be vindicated before your High Mightinesses. In the meanwhile we apprehend, that this indecent service of summons will have the effect of withdrawing your High Mightinesses' attention from more important affairs, and of calling forth many complaints, solicitations and appeals, now and henceforth from this and other distant places even to the degree that it will not be possible to pronounce a definitive ;

judgment here, from which the losing party, either through hatred of the judge, in order to insult him, or through the persuasion of others and to create delay, will not claim and demand an appeal. Your High Mightinesses will please excuse one word -- It is, as far as I know, a

case without example, that an inferior judge, deciding the law according to the best of his knowledge in private cases, whether of debt or damage, should be sued or called on for restitution of money, instead of the gaining party. But, in order not to interrupt too much your High Mightinesses' important deliberations on higher and weightier matters, we will not enlarge farther in this affair, but leave the result commended to God and your far-seeing judgment; only observing to your High Mightinesses before concluding, that the sentence pronounced against the appellant Melyn, was, as appears by its tenor, not directed so much against the remonstrance on the subject of the war and public affairs, as against particular insulting libels on, and opposition to his lawful Superior. Duty should oblige us to annex hereunto the situation and condition of public affairs here, and the necessity of promoting the bour:dary line, population, the establishment of firm