The Directors, in Holland, have not endeavored, nor used any means, nor given any orders, to discover the cause of, or to forbid the war, which creates strong suspicion that they themselves authorized it -- p. 314. 68. The St. Beninio, a ship belonging to Benjor, an Italian at Amsterdam, was forcibly cut out of New Haven, where it lay under the protection of the English, and brought as a prize to, and confiscated at the Manhattans. In addition to these, there are divers other excesses too numerous to particularize.

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Answer of the West India Company to the Remonstrance from JVeio Netherland. From the Original in Che Royal Archives at the Hague ; Loketkaa of the States General ; Rubric West IndUche Compagnie No. 30 ; 7lh division t

of the Bundle.]

Answer to the Remonstrance delivered by the Delegates from New Netherland, on the 27"" January, 1650, to the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands.

It appeareth strange to the Directors (of the \V. I. Company,) that the Remonstrants

commence their introduction with calumnies against the Board, their Patroons, complaining of excesses and highly injurious neglect, which, if any existed, ought to have been represented in season to the said Patroons, by them in virtue of their commission dated 27 July, 1649, communicated for the first time, on the 9'" of December last, full eight or nine weeks subsequent to their arrival and that they addressed themselves to the Lords of the Supreme government ;