In the same debate, it was said, also, by another Peer, that " the title " given to the paper was suspicious : a * Petition ' from the same Assem- "bly had been presented (o the King, the Colonies not denying the "supreme Rights of His Majesty ; a ' Hemonstrance' to the Commons; " and, now, a ' Memorial ' to the Lords. They dropped the usual word " ' Petition,' lest, from that, it should be imagined that they acknowl- " edged the supreme power of those branches of the Legislature." -- (Speeches of the Earl of Denbigh and Rirl Goiter, in the Honse of Lords, May 18, 177.5.)

In the House of Commons, Mr. Jenkinson, in opposition to receiving the paper addressed to that House, " urged that the House had never re- " ceived Petitions of this nature : that, here, the name of a Petition was "studiously avoided, lest anything like an obedience to Parliament •' should be acknowledged. The opposition of the Colonies was not so "much against the tax which gave rise to the present dispute, as to the " whole legislative authority of Parliament, and to any restrictions of

THK AMEIUCAN KE VOLUTION, 1774-1783.

li:id immediately preceded it, that Resolution, also, received the afiirmative vote of every member of the House who was then present. *

Continuing the commendable work in which it had thus commenced the proceedings of the day, and apparently without any dissent from any one, the House then ordered that James De Laiicey, and Benjamin ; Kissani, of the City of Now York, Colonel Philip Schuyler, of Albany-county, George Clinton, of Ulster-county, Dirk Brinkerhoof, of Duchess-county, Samuel Gale, of Orange-county, Isaac Wilkins, of the Borough of Westchester, Crean Brush, of Cumberland-county [now a part of Temow/], Christopher Billop, of Richmond-county, John Kapelje, of Kings-county, and William Nicoll, of Queenscounty, or the major part of them -- all, except Philip Schuyler and George Clinton being of the majority of the House -- be " a Committee to prepare a State' of the