But with grief, regret and sorrowful eyes must they witness and behold that, to the country's ruin and their own exceeding great damage and derangement, Stuyvesant, Director in New Netherland, and a few French and English Councillors, appointed neither by your High Mightinesses nor by the Hon"" West India Company, but by him, the Director, according to his own pleasure, in opposition to the protest of the other officers known to, appointed by your High Mightinesses and the Hon"« West India Company and possessing jurisdiction with the Director in that country, have so ill-received your High Mightinesses' authority and orders that the said orders not only have been disregarded and passed over, but the direct contrary thereof has been put into practice without any member of the government being at liberty to make an objection thereunto, unless at the risk of being affronted by every means, direct and indirect, and banished, as your High Mightinesses will be fully able to perceive from the annexed protest and following examples. The Director was not willing to communicate to the other Councillors appointed by your High Mightinesses and the Hon''" Company, your High Mightinesses' general letters dated the 1st and 11"" April, and given to the Delegates on their departure, so that such refusal was protested against, as is to be seen by the document hereunto annexed. The guns which were sent over, are not stamped and distributed according to order, but the Director first took possession of all of them, sold some of them to the Indians or Natives of the country, and refused to leave the remainder at the disposal of Jacob van Couwenhoven thereunto qualified by your High Mightinesses' resolution dated ll"" April, 1650, so that the whole affair has got into confusion. The Commonalty are not only not disciplined nor armed, pursuant to your High Mightinesses' order, but when such was repeatedly demanded by the Select men pursuant to your High Mightinesses' issued commands, they were dismissed with hard words, by the Director who only answered -- I shall do so when I please so that this matter has been treated ;