In the Committee which had been appointed for the preparation of the Suie, in which every member brought forward whatever he regarded as a Grievance, and not in the body of the Assenibly, aa is meanly insinu- I ated. Colonel Schnyler introduced the .\ct of 4th George III., Chapter XV., a.s such a Grievance, which was approved and accepted by the Committee, with only two dissenting votes, notwithstanihng the overwhelming majority, in that Committee, who was opposed to Colonel Schuyler. When the Report was considered iu Committee of the Whole House, there was not the slightest opposition to it ; and when the Committee of the House rejtorted the completed paper to the House, John C. Hamilton to the contrary notwithstanding, the entire Ulule was adopted without a division.

He also alluded to the third of the Grievances, offered in the original Committee, by James De Lancey, recognizing the Kight of the Government of Great Britain to regulate the Trade of the Colonies and to iniiMW! Duties on such articles, the products of foreign Nations, as should be imported, directly, into the Colonies -- the same, in substance

The State of Grievances which was thus adopted by the General Assembly of New York included not only all thbse Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, relating to or affecting the Colony of New York, for which Colony only the Assembly presumed to legislate, which the Congress of the Continent had included in the Bill of Rights and C/vevances which that body had adopted and published, but it included the additional Grievance inflicted in the Act of 6th George III., Chapter XII., " declaring the Right of " Parliament to bind the Colonies in all cases what- " soever," and that inflicted in the Act of 35th Henry VIII., Chapter II., authorizing the removal of prisoners accused of Crimes committed in America, to England, for Trial, neither of which was included in that Bill of Rights and Grievances which the Congress had published.