[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] TheDircctorisright considered to be by every one of evil consequence. Mr. Stuyvesant's promptness ready to conflscale. „ ",,. i-,i-o i-at confiscatmg, causes also great discontent among the inhabitants, bcarce a snip HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IV. 313 comes in, or near this place, that he does not looii on as a prize, unless it be the property of friends. Great pretensions will be set up on this subject, though with slender profit. Their merits we shall not question; but confiscation hath made so much noise in New Netherland, that none of those in any way in bad odor, considers his property secure. Were the noise thereof confined exclusively to the country, it were well; but he has spread it himself, throughout the neighboring English, both north and south, even to the West Indies and Caribbee Islands; everywhere there is such evil report, that not a ship dare venture here from those parts. Worthy and reliable people who come thence here by way of Boston, and others trading hence to Boston, assure us that more than 25 ships would come annually here from the Islands, were they not afraid of confiscation. This refers only to these places; the same report flies all over, and carries similar terror, so that this Vulture is sorely destructive of the prosperity Kumnr of conflsca-•' r r J tion causes much in-of New Netherland; it diverts trade and renders the people discontented; for {"H^ """^ "*'"*■■''' other places, not so convenient as this, have more shipping.