Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded, that the said written opinion be again placed in the hands of the abovementioned Mr. van der Capelle tho Ryssel and the other their High Mightinesses' preceding deputies, in order to investigate, examine, to submit their views as to the finding of means and ways whereby the affairs of said West India Company in the Countries aforesaid may be restored and preserved in good condition, and to report on the whole to their High Mightinesses.

Resolution of the States General on the preceded Invasion of New Netherland. [ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1663, in the Bojral Archives at the Hague. ]

Tuesday, Z^ September, 1652.

Folio 85. Whereas their High Mightinesses are certainly informed that New Netherland Mew Netherland. is in great danger and imminently exposed to invasion, surprisal and to the

' Philip Sidwet, Lord Lisle, the eldest son of the 2d Earl of Leicester, was a zealous republican. He had in his youth been trained up as a diplomatist, attending on his father to the States General and the Courts of Denmark and France, and in 1648 was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, where he remained, howerer, but a short time. He next became president of the CounoiL He died in 1698, and was succeeded by his son, with whom the title became extinct in 1743. Burke, -- Ed.

488 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. besieging of the cities and fortresses there, by the English, it is, therefore, upon consideration resolved and concluded, that a letter be written to the presiding Chamber of the West India ,^ Bcounlr against Ihe Company ^ of this country, I J to notify the Director, his council and those of the ' •>