[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] On the arrival here, namely, on the 23"" June last, of Jacob van Couwenhoven and Jan Evertse Boutt, delegates sent commissioned by our Board last year to their High Mightinesses, and on the delivery of the letters from their High Mightinesses and others, to the Director and Council of New Netherland, we wrote to their High Mightinesses, and summarily related in brief, that the Director and Council did not observe their High Mightinesses' order. The melancholy condition of this country remains unchanged, and even has become worse; His Honor does not recognize any Select men, and regards not our Board; he considers not of the least account the copy of the report and Provisional Order. '". the matter of the Redress, preservation and peopling of New Netherland, &c., with great labor and pains drawn up, proposed and submitted by you. High and Mighty, for the advantage of this country and its inhabitants, and which we were under the necessity of communicating to the Commonalty, in order to animate and encourage them, notwithstanding his Honor never deigned to look at it. The Commonalty live in fear and anguish, not knowing with whom to associate. They dare not now, as we fully know, make any declaration of what they are cognizant of. Terror possesses them, thinking he can still injure us.