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-

" edged the supreme power of those branches of the Legislature."

(Speeches of the Earl of Denbigh and Earl Cower, in the House of Lords, May 18, 1775.)

In the House of Commons, Mr. Jenkinson, in opposition to receiving the paper addressed to that House, " urged that the House had never re- " ceived Petitions of this nature : that, here, the name of a Petition was "studiously avoided, lest anything like an obedience to Parliament ** should he acknowledged. The opposition of the Colonies was not so " much against the tax which gave rise to the present dispute as to the " whole legislative authority of Parliament, and to any restrictions of

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had immediately preceded it, that Resolution, also, received the affirmative vote of every member of the House who was then present. 1