In fine, these people, glozing over their acts, say they are bound by oath and obliged by conscience had this any force, they would not thus assail the Company and others, their ; but, benefactors, nor seek to strip them of this noble country by advising a conveyance of it, now that it begins to assume some shape; promises to make the Company some return, and when many of the colonists find themselves in better circumstances than ever. Ambition, apparently, prompts many, &c. Ady 29. November, 1650. The Hague.

Mctract of Observations on the West India Company's Affairs.

[ From the MS. In the Eoyal ArchireB at the Hague ; Loketkaa of the Stalea General ; Rubric Went Indiache CompagnU, No. 80 ; Brazilian part

of the Bundle, jf.]

The Committee of the principal Partners of the West India Company at Amsterdam, having heard the report of the business at the Hague, have resolved to communicate their opinion thereupon as follows:

5. As regards New Netherland, they are of opinion that the trade ought to be encouraged with the same freedoms, and the charges thereon ought to be on the same footing, as in New

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 438 England and that all possible means ought to be taken to place the fisheries on the Coast on ;

an equality with those of Newfoundland, with liberty to transport the fish either to Brazil or elsewhere, according to the pleasure of the owners. [Without any year, but found with papers of the year 1G50. ]