Immediately after the adoption of the Resolution submitted by the Representative of the Livingston Manor, James De Lancey, of the City of New York, one of the leaders of the majority and the head of that powerful family, moved "that a Memorial to the Lords, and a Representation 11 and Remonstrance to the Commons of Great Brit- " ain may be prepared, together with the Petition " to his Majesty;" 3 and, like the Resolution which

2 Journal of the House, "Die Martis, 10 ho., A.M., the 3lBt January, ( 1775."

8 The peculiar force, if not the peculiar assertion of the political standing of the General Assembly, with which the proposed papers were vested, in the words of the Resolution, was noticed, in the Parliament, and used as one of the reasons for the Parliament's rejection of them -- in the House of Lords, it was said, "the title of the paper rendered it " inadmissible. It was called ' a Memorial : * now, ' Memorials ' are pre- " sented from one crowned head to another ; but as to a ' Memorial ' from '■ an American Assembly, it was unheard of, and ought not to be read." 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 Assembly had been presented to the King, the Colonies not denying the "supreme Rights of His Majesty ; a ' Remonstrance' to the Commons; " and, now, a ' Memorial ' to the Lords. They dropped the usual word "'IWioii,' lest, from that, it should be imagined that they acknowl-