mblic  concubinage,  and  fined  eighty-two  rix-dollars.     The  ^^v^
lir  of  the  place  no  longer  agreed  with  him.     Notwith-  1661.
(landing  their  High  Mightinesses'  injunctions,  he  embarked  May  5.
D  the  Waterhound,  accompanied  by  the  victim  of  his  lust,
whom  he  still  flattered  with  the  prospects  of  marriage  on
lis  arrival  at  New  Amsterdam.     The  unfortunate  young
iroman  finding  at  length  that  she  was  duped,  instituted  an
idion   against   her  seducer,  who,  however,  escaped  all
>imi8hment     The  Amsterdam  Directors  had  already  de-
dared  that  he  had  suflered,  whilst  in  Holland,  from  ''  the
nanoeuvres  of  miscreants  and  perturbators  of  the  public
leace,"  and,  now,  through  the  influence  of  men  high  in
^ce,  •*  whose  mouths  were  besugared  "  from  the  cargo  of
I  Portuguese  prize  which  the  Waterhound  had  captured,
•Van  Tienhoven  became  so  sweet  that  there  remained  no
lOnger   any   bitterness  in   him.*"     The   advocate  of  the
Director-general,  like  all  such  characters  in  colonies,  was
the  favorite  with  those  in  power,  and  justice  was  denied
to  the  poor  mantuamaker's  daughter.'

The  popular  party  persevered,  notwithstanding  the  dis-
idvantages  under  which  they  labored,  in  their  demands
For  redress.  The  state  of  things  against  which  they  had
»  long  and  so  loudly  complained  remained  unchanged,
ind  nothing  they  could  do  could  induce  Stuyvesant  to
iwerve  from  the  line  of  policy  he  was  pursuing,  and  which,
it  is  but  justice  to  him  to  say,  accorded  now  with  the  ob-
itinate  and  mistaken  opposition  to  right  and  adherence  to
mrong,  which  dictated  the  private  instructions  that  he  re-
seived,  from  time  to  time,  from  his  superiors  at  Amsterdam.
Finding  that  it  was  idle  to  expect  a  change,  the  Vice
Director  and  Van  Dyck  drew  up  a  long  protest  against  Feb.  28.
