[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Ambassador Nieitpoort to the States General. [From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague; File, Engeland. ] High and Mighty Lords. My Lords. A certain merchant here in London, attending to the business of the West India Company, communicated to me, a few days ago, a letter from Mr. Stuyvesandt, Director-General of New Netherland, handed to him by Mr. Johan Rising, late Governor for the Crown of Sweden, on the South River of New Netherland aforesaid, wherein the abovenamed Stuyvesandt writes that he had, on the express order and instructions of the Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, lately reduced the said South River, under that Company's obedience; with a formal Capitulation, whereby it was stipulated, that the skipper with whom the abovenamed Johan Rising and the factor Henrick Elswyck, should sail, was instructed to land them In France or in England, and that Director-General Stuyvesandt was to loan or furnish the former exchange for the sum of three hundred pounds Flemish, for the prosecution of his voyage, &c., which the abovenamed Rising coming here to London from Plymouth, at once demanded from the said merchant. No news has been received here from sea since my last, from any quarter, nor from Scotland or Ireland, and nothing worth mentioning has occurred since Christmas day. Vice-Admiral de Ruyteri is highly praised for having befriended the ships of this nation, and so valiantly