A few words only are required to complete the record of the results of that much-slandered General Assembly; and the space which they will occupy cannot be better occupied.

The Petition which was officially sent to the Agent of the Colony, the celebrated Edmund Burke, for presentation to the King, was duly laid before the Sovereign ; ' but, iinismuch as the General Assembly had, also, addressed the Parliament, on the same subjects, it is not known that any i)articular attention was paid to it.

On the fifteenth of May, tiie distinguished Agent ot the Colony, offered to be presented to the House of Commons, the JRepresentation and Remondrance which the Colonial General Assembly had addressed to that body ; and, in doing so, Mr. Burke made a short Speech, in which he told the House that "'they never " had before them so fair an opportunity of i)utting " an end to the unhappy disputes with the Colonies, " as at present ; and he conjured them, in the most

1 " Mr Biirke having delivered to me tlie Petition to tlie King, I ha<l " the honour to present it to His Majesty, wlio wan pleased to receive " it with the most gracious expressions of reganl and attention to tlie " hunililo request of his faithful subjects in New- York, who have, on "this occasion, manifested a duty to His Mi\jesty and a regard for the "authority of the Parent State, which, had they not, in the Memoi 'ml "to till- //<)((«<■ of Lonls and in the Uipiesi-nlali'in lo tin- UoiiKinf Cuiiiiioiif, "been unfortunately blended with expressions containing Claims which " made it impossible for Parliiinient, consistent with its justice and dig- "nity, to receive them, might have laid the foundation of that liccon- "ciliation we have so long and so ardently wished fur." -- (Tlir h'Mil nj Darlmoiilli to tlorernor Tijrun, " Whitehall, >Iay i'J, 17T'i.''j