[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Director himself will furnish. Your High Mightinesses, and such other friends as happen to see it, can easily infer, from the preceding Relation, what trouble and labor we have had on our shoulders, with which we would have most willingly dispensed, had it not been for the love of the country and of the truth, which, as far as we know, hath long lain in the grave. The trouble and difficulty, Thetmihreearding though wanting no addition, have not wearied us, or rather, will not be to us '""S' so great a source of grief as is the sorrowful condition of New Netherland, now lying at its last gasp. But we hope and trust that our affliction and the sufferings of the inhabitants and people of the country, will excite commisseration in your High Mightinesses, in order that New Netherland may rejoice. ( 48 ) IN WHAT MANNER NEW NETHERLAND SHOULD BE RELIEVED. Although we are satisfied and fully aware, that, as respects public reforms, we are but as children, and that your High Mightinesses are fully competent in the case, yet we beseech you to pardon and excuse us, if we, according to our humble conception thereof, make a few suggestions in addition to what we have already considered, in our petition to your High Mightinesses, to be necessary. In our opinion this country will never flourish under the Hon"* Company's government; on the contrary 'twill waste and decay in itself, unless the Company be, in consequence, reformed.