conclusions as, perhaps, will not be entirely pleasing to the aforesaid Patroon and co-directorswe say, and with truth, that they are not willing to wait for any Suffice it at present, that and that they, having caused a certain written notice to be delivered to our satisfaction ; Assembly, did not once think it worth their while to ask for an answer, much less for any conference in the premises. This, however, we do not allege as if with a view to create difficulty in order to demonstrate our right to your High Mightinesses, but merely to let these people know, that 'twas just as well not to expostulate with so much vehemence against those whom they are bound to honor, and of whose favor they daily stand in need and that they ;

may be advised, that, from such proceedings, they have nothing to expect but that the Company will insist on its right, without henceforward granting any further indulgence, as they pretend that their Freedoms were not observed with precision. We cannot deny but complaints have been heretofore made and even sent into the Assembly of the Nineteen by the Patroon, but never by the co-directors; the latter cannot be ignorant why an answer was not given to those complaints. We could, if necessary, readily adduce the reason thereof for our justification did we not prefer to leave unattacked the memory of their predecessors herein, and we know not whether we had ever been cited before your High Mightinesses' Deputies on the subject of the Vol. L 66