By a vote of ten to eleven, the House determined that the question on Colonel Ten Broeck's ill-timed Resolution should not " be now put," thereby entirely defeating the minority, in its certainly dishonorable attempt to force a consideration of the proceedings of the Congress, on the Assembly, in open violation of its own particular undertaking, and at the expense of its own honor. 3

Very reasonably, although the welcome act was done by those who were not of the " friends of the " Government," the result of that early struggle in the General Assembly of the Colony, on such a momentous question, was very acceptable to the Colonial Government 4 as well as to the Ministry, at London ; 5 and, from that date until this, separated from the motives of the majority of the Assembly who had thus rejected the Resolution, and from the other acts of the series, in opposition to the Government, of which

3 Journal of the House, "DioJovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 26th January, " 1775 ; " Lieulenaut-govemor Colden to General Gage, " New York 29th " Jany 1775 ; " the same to the Earl of Dartmouth, " New York 1st Feby " 1775 ; " the same to Governor Tnjon, " New York, 1st Feby, 1775 ; " the " same to Admiral Graves, "New York 20th Feb. 1775."

4 The venerable Lieutenant-governor of the Province was evidently in excellent spirits, from that result, when he wrote the Despatches to General G»ge and the Earl of Dartmouth, which were referred to in the last preceding Note.