[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [From tho Ecgiatcr of CUgtgane Brievm of lUo Stales General, in the Royal Archives al the Hague. ] To P. Stuyvesant, Director General in New Netherland. The States, etc. Folio 210. Honorable, etc. In this present rupture between this State and England, we have resolved hereby to write to you and to charge and order you to take good care and keep a watchful eye so that no persons be employed either in the political government or Militia of that country except those whose fidelity and affection for this State may be fully relied on. Done 22 July, 1052. Secret Memoir of the West India Company respecting Brazil and New Netherland. [ From the Original in the Royal Archives at tho Hague; SecreUkas of Ihe Stales General; Division, West Induche Oompagnie, No. 8. ] To the Honorable Mighty Lords, the Deputies of the High and Mighty Lords States General for West India Affairs. Honorable and Mighty Lords The undersigned Directors of the Incorporated West India Company having communication of the extract of their High Mightinesses' resolution hereunto annexed, have in their affliction learned with some joy from its tenor, that the deliberations of the Government in lliese critical times have been extended over the utterly wretched affairs of said Company,-and as they