We know not what the Director will effect by such a mode of proceeding, especially as it happens that the stamped guns, distributed among the people, are sold to the Indians with his consent, and those guilty of such acts are not sought for ; whereby, and as his Honor will not permit the inspection of the arms, still further opportunity is afforded. Those persons would be soon found out were the Director pleased to follow High Mightinesses' order; their certainly if he will permit those who have charge of the distribution, to obey it but that may ;

not be. 'Tis now all of two years, last Amsterdam fair, since the citizens were under arms; and under these circumstances we fear, that as long a time will elapse again; that for divers reasons and from daily experience, the Indians will anticipate the Director and exact from us a woful inspection of our guns, and may God grant that the weakness of the citizens and people may be ready in their own defence. The past and the present impress on you the advancement of matters more strongly than our pen can herein recommend. We entertain no doubt of your devotedness, and, being disinclined to make further complaint, we hope that their High Mightinesses will at once put an end to the affair, and forthwith determine the intolerable disunion, confusion and jarrings; whether these are now again set on foot by Directors in Fatherland, or whether they are fomented among the people on the invention of the Executive and Fiscal here, we leave others to infer from the annexed papers. For, the Director being still in his sovereign power, we dare not write any more to their High Mightinesses, as he again obtains copies of everything; and we dread that the effects of his daily menaces will light suddenly on our heads, and that the country will, moreover, if seasonable provision be not made by their High Mightinesses in the premises, soon fall into the hands of foreigners, an event rendered the more probable by the non-resistance the Swede meets with in the South river, and the high favor the English experience.