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, inasmuch as the General Assembly had, also, addressed the Parliament, on the same subjects, it is not known that any particular attention was paid to it.

On the fifteenth of May, the distinguished Agent of theColony, offered to be presented to the House of Commons, the Representation and Remonstrance 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 putting "an end to the unhappy disputes with the Colonies, " as at present ; and he conjured them, in the most

1 " Mr Burke having delivered to me the Petition to the King, I had " the honour to present it to His Majesty, who was pleased to receive " it with the most gracious expressions of regard and attention to the "humble request of his faithful subjects in New-York, who have, on "this occasion, manifested a duty to His Majesty and a regard for the " authority of the Parent State, which, had they not, in the Memorial " to the House of Lords and in the Representation to the House of Common*, "been unfortunately blended with expressions containing Claims which " made it impossible for Parliament, consistent with its justice and dig- "nity, to receive them, might have laid the foundation of that Recon- "ciliation we have so long and so ardently wished for." -- {The Earl of Dartmouth to Governor Tyron, "Whitehall, May 23, 1775.")