Stuyvesant, Director General in New Netherland.

The States, etc. Folio 210. Honorable, etc. between this State and England, we In this present rupture have resolved hereby to write to you and to charge and order you to take good care and keep a watchful eye so that no persons be employed either in the political government or Militia of that country except those whose fidelity and affection for this State may be fully relied on. Done 22 July, 1052.

Secret Memoir of the West India Company respecting Brazil and New Netherland. [ From the Original in the Royal Archives at tho Hague SecreUkas of Ihe Stales General ; ; Division, West Induche Oompagnie, No. 8. ]

To the Honorable Mighty Lords, the Deputies of the High and Mighty Lords States General for West India Affairs.

Honorable and Mighty Lords !

The undersigned Directors of the Incorporated West India Company having communication of the extract of their High Mightinesses' resolution hereunto annexed, have in their affliction learned with some joy from its tenor, that the deliberations of the Government in lliese critical times have been extended over the utterly wretched affairs of said Company,- and as they assume it as a token of their High Mightinesses' good inclination, so they hope and pray that it may be so far continued that such effects may follow the aforesaid deliberation as both the intention of the State and the constitution of the aforesaid Company demand. And here, in order to obey your Honorable Mightinesses' command and to make some suggestions thereon introductory to the needful deliberation, the aforesaid Directors shall observe the order prescribed by said Resolution. Brazil hath no communication with those of England except that the Portuguese, when occasion presents, are accustomed to charter some of their ships. Therefore no injury can be done there by the English, and consequently 'twould be unnecessary to make any reflection on the abovementioned district in connection with them, unless the Directors anticipated another difficulty, which on this occasion cannot be omitted.