The ship with which Melyn came, anchored with the flood before Staten Island about noon, so that I could not sail down there much before evening, when I did my best with the watch on the ship until she should come up to the harbor, according to the declaration hereunto annexed. Had my recommendation to the Director to institute my suit against Melyn and the Skipper conjointly been attended to, such disorder had not occurred in the proceedings, nor would the judgments of the Director and Council have conflicted with each other. But I had nothing to say, but was obliged to do the Director's pleasure. 'Tis already stated wherein the anger of the Director against me consists, and your Honors can conclude whether he was justified in thus ill treating me, and I can show by the accompanying certificates that he, on his own authority, expelled me from the service and bestowed my office on the perjured Tienhoven. I regret to learn that your Honors are displeased with me. Inasmuch as you give credit to the reports of my disorderly conduct and dissolute life; I am certain that those who informed against me, willingly accept my office and are devoted to the Director ; for the latter having labored so hard to remove me, it does not appear strange to me that I am unjustly accused and slandered in all manner of ways. The loss of time by running about in drunkenness, if it must needs be, and notwithstanding the contrary is best known to me, is a trivial circumstance ; yea, in my opinion, demonstrates the envy and hatred entertained by such informers against me. I willingly acknowledge my faults, and pray God daily to remove them and to amend my life. Such persons with their own troubles, and on perceiving their own short comings, might well remain silent.