Ambassador of Spain, not having yet received any answer from Messrs. the States General to a Memoir he presented on the 11"" December last, requesting your Lordships to be pleased to dispatch requisitory letters in favor of Juan Gallardo, a Spanish Pilot, addressed to the Governor or Magistrate of New Netherland to arrest Captain Sebastiaen de Raeff and his Lieutenant, Jan van Campen, when they will arrive at the ports of said country, where they usually repair with their prizes, and to seize their ships and effects for the indemnification of the said Juan Gallardo and the other his Mnjesty's subjects interested in tiieir robberies, with orders to send them prisoners to these Provinces for trial and exemplary punishment; and in case the said two pirates be not found, that he cause free restitution to be made to said Gallardo, of his nine Negroes and of all the others he will recognize belonging to the same prize, principally the thirty-six of Antonio de Rivera, devolved to his Majesty by the decease of said Rivera intestate, leaving to the purchasers their recourse against the pirates ; he finds himself under the necessity of renewing his urgent entreaties to your Lordships to be pleased to accede to that request, which is founded on all justice and equity, the more especially as the Magistrate of Amsterdam, having set the said Captain de Raeff at libertyon simple security under oath, contrary to all form of justice, has deprived said Gallardo and the other interested parties of the means of prosecuting their right against him and of thereby obtaining satisfaction, in consequence of his fleeing these Provinces, and as this poor man having exhausted his means in expenses, has not wherewithal to subsist much longer. Done at the Hague, the 6"' January, 1656. (Signed) Gamarra.