Wherefore will you with too fluent a pen, multitudinous false accusations, and divers highly embellished fruitless writings, after the ancient custom of the Director away elsewhere, oblige me, as it were, to demonstrate to you the monopoly and imposition which the Director and some of the Board in Amsterdam, and not the Board in general as you by perversion falsely accused me of saying, have so long carried on, to the prejudice of the Hon'''' Company's charter and contrary to your oath and bounden duty. Some instances thereof I shall lay before you, as it appears I must refresh your Honors' memory with the truth. Is it not monopoly in the Director when, having sailed in the year 1646 from Fatherland for

New Netherland with the ships the Princess and Groote Gerrit, on arriving in the latitude of the Canary Islands, he altered the course to New Netherland, the destined place, and set towards and ran to Curasao, by which means the traders having freight on board, knowing no better than that they should proceed direct to New Netherland, suffered serious loss and damage, as everybody in Amsterdam was advised by public printed notices; a statement whereof has been made: and many people, who were engaged in the Hon'''" Company's service in New Netherland and nowhere else, and would not consent to go to any other place, were with other free men, deceived in their good designs and intentions, and reduced to such grief and discouragement that many of them died of broken hearts on the voyage and at Curasao? Is it not monopoly in the Director at Cura9ao, where skipper Jan Smal made one voyage