[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] not in the capacity of a merchant, but as Patroon, in Staten Island, had sent the said ship thither, as stated, with only his farmers and what was necessary for their support, and nothing more; moreover, was not guilty, nor accused, of any fraud, and consequently flagrant force and violence were committed against him in the witiiholding and seizing his ship and goods aforesaid; the said pretended judgment, being, also, null and unjust in itself, both in regard of the Council mentioned therein, whereof one is a Frenchman and the other an Englishman, with exclusion of the Vice-Director Dincklagen, and of the Select men, three only of whom were present instead of nine, who ought to have assisted; all contrary to the Commission and Instruction prescribed to him, the Director, by us, for the administration of justice, and upon which he hath taken his oath; in addition whereunto, the aforesaid judgment was pronounced on untrue, false, yea self-contradictory data, as he, the appellant, will, at his own timet sufficiently prove. And, inasmuch as he, Mr.