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. So much transpires for the ruin of this country that it makes our heads ache to think of it. His permitting the Vice-Director and our Board to continue until further order, pursuant to the commands of their High Mightinesses, is too far away. A somewhat different result will be easily witnessed next New -Year and the Director still represents, that he is anxious to be at ;

the Hague to vindicate himself but that it may be done here. If their High Mightinesses be not easily imposed upon by falsehoods and frauds, it will not be difficult for us to prove and establish, according to the Remonstrance and daily experience, the melancholy condition to which the people here is reduced by mismanagement and niisgovernment. We think it strange that no better attention is paid to the Vice-Director's repeated letters to the Board of Directors informing them that their public property in this country is becoming private, and that the public good is not studied here. It grieves us extremely that the Hon'''' Company itself is defrauded, the people oppressed, and that even such persons are still found as counteract the public interest. You can readily conceive what grief it causes among the people here when the Fiscal announced that the Directors (in Amsterdam) had written to Mr.