The States, etc. Folios. Honorable, etc. We herewith send you the accompanying copies of the Memorials presented to us by the Spanish Ambassador on the 11"" December last, and on the Johan Gaillardo, 6"' of this mouth, respecting the case of Johan Gaillardo, a Spanish pilot, against panis pilot. Captain Sebastiaen Raeff and his Lieutenant Jan van Campen, and we transmit you, besides, the annexed extract of our resolutions adopted on the aforesaid Memorials, with

582 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. order and command, that you regulate yourself precisely according ^to the tenor thereof, without in any wise failing therein. Relying whereupon, etc. Done 10 January, 165G.

Ambassador Nieitpoort to the States General. [From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague; File, Engeland. ]

High and Mighty Lords.

My Lords. A certain merchant here in London, attending to the business of the West India Company, communicated to me, a few days ago, a letter from Mr. Stuyvesandt, Director-General of New Netherland, handed to him by Mr. Johan Rising, late Governor for the Crown of Sweden, on the South River of New Netherland aforesaid, wherein the abovenamed Stuyvesandt writes that he had, on the express order and instructions of the Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, lately reduced the said South River, under that Company's obedience; with a formal Capitulation, whereby it was stipulated, that the skipper with whom the abovenamed Johan Rising and the factor Henrick Elswyck, should sail, was instructed to land them In France or in England, and that Director-General Stuyvesandt was to loan or furnish the former exchange for the sum of three hundred pounds Flemish, for the prosecution of his voyage, &c., which the abovenamed Rising coming here to London from Plymouth, at once demanded from the said merchant. No news has been received here from sea since my last, from any quarter, nor from Scotland or Ireland, and nothing worth mentioning has occurred since Christmas day.