[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IV. 301 jealousy that he could not without suspicion suffer disinterested persons to visit his partizans. After the war had been terminated accordins' to the Director's own statement, The war wm not •-^ oe concludt'u uniii though in our opinion it will never be finished until the country be peopled, every [■^^'j^.X^y!" ""^ '" one hoped that this excise would cease; but Director Kieft postponed that until the arrival of (31) a new Director, who was very anxiously wished for, and finally appeared; but like the crowning of Rehoboam; for, instead of abolishing the beer excise, his first act was to superadd thereto a wine excise and other,^^'j^5^7JJ^'„i;''^^: intolerable burdens; so that some of the Commonalty, as they then had no <='»«• advocate, were themselves under the necessity of remonstrating, but instead of J^'^^.f'^^P,''^ p"^""™ the relief they expected, they received a somewhat sharp reprimand from the Director, and subsequently obtained a written answer which, as was his custom, he had couched in so lengthy and so diffuse a style, that poor humble people, such as are here, must inevitably commit mistakes regarding it. And thus have further attempts been made from time to time to impose new taxes and burthens.