if npt in words, as that, on the same subject, which the Congress of the Continent had recently adopted -- and he glorified his grandfather, because of that gentleman's labors in opposing it, and iu endeavoring to qualify the Assembly's recognition of that Right, through an .\mendment, which the Committee had rejected ; without, however, alluding to that other fact that, in all that his grandfather did, on that occasion, he did in open antagonism to the action of the Continental Congress, on the same subject -- he does not siiy, also, that all that which has been described wiu done in the original Committee ; that when the Report of the Committee was submitted to the Committee of the Whole House, tliiit larger body reversed the action of the original I 'unnnittee, and united with Colonel .Schuyler and his associates in the minority, in their quulitication of that portion of the proceedings of the Continental Congress ; nor that the House itself, when it accepted the completed SI'ili', endoi-seil and approved that i nipliatic repudiation of .Tames Duane, and of .lohn .\ilams, and of their unqiialiHed recognition of the Right of the Mother Country to regulate the Trade of the Colonies and to receive the beneRts of that Commerce.

Philip Schuyler needed no such lictitious praise, even from his grandson ; anil, although he was willing to promote the interests of his faction, he does not appear to have been thus employed, in what he did as a member of that Committee for preparing a State of the iirierance» of thin (Jolonij, nor in any proceedings thereon, either in Counuittee of the Whole House or in the .Vssembly.