Under present circumstances or with the present government, 'tis impossible for the country to exist; with means have been employed to force us out of the service, sinister and seditious practises, all and notwithstanding all frivolous actions have been sought, the aid of pasquinades must be called in and had recourse to. Were an honorable gentleman put in my place, the false accusation which the Director made and sent over against me long ago, might have some semblance of truth ; but his perjured Secretary, Cornells van Tienhoven, who returned hither who is known, and can be proved to contrary to the prohibition of their High Mightinesses; whoremonger and perjurer; who is a disgrace to, and the sole afliiction all the world, to be a public

of Christians and heathens in this country and whom the Director hath always managed to shield; this is the person whom the Director hath, of his own authority, appointed Fiscal. A fuller account shall be hereafter given hereof. And we have patiently borne and endured everything up to this time. Had we in the slightest degree opposed the Director's usurped Sovereignty, the country would have easily been deluged with blood, which (God mend it!) is even yet to be apprehended.

Thus done and resolved in the Assembly of the XIX. of the General Incorporated West India Company, in Amsterdam, in the year 1645, the 7"" of July; was paraphed Henr. van der Capelle tho Ryssel (and was signed) By order of the same. Gi'SBEKT IIUDOLPHI.