He commenced by asking the Clerk to read the official record of the proceedings of the House, in December, 1768, on a Petition of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and what was known as the Declaratory Act; and he continued by saying that he was " greatly in favour of " New York ; and that he would gladly do everything " in his power to shew his regard to the good behaviour " of that Colony; " but he declared that the " honour " of Parliament required that no paper should be pre- " sented to that House, which tended to call in ques- "tion the unlimited "Rights of Parliament." "As to " the Quebec Duties," which was one of the Grievances against which the General Assembly had remonstrated, he said " he did not pretend to be infal- " lible ; he confessed they were not laid as they ought " to be ; and he declared that he was willing to give "satisfaction, in that point, immediately." '"This, " however," he said, " was but a trifle to the general " objects of the Remonstrance.'' An earnest Debate ensued, Messrs.
Cornwall and Jenkinson supporting the Ministry, and Messrs. Cruger, Aubrey, Charles James Fox, and Governor Johnstone supporting Mr. Burke ; and that was followed by the submission by Lord North, of an Amendment to Mr. Burke's Motion " for leave to bring up," making it read thus : " That " the said Representation and Remonstrance (in which " the said Assembly claim to themselves Rights derog- " atory to, and inconsistent with, the legislative " authority of Parliament, as declared by the Declara- " tory Act) be brought up." By a vote of one hundred and eighty-six to. sixty -seven, the Amendment was adopted ; and the amended Motion, of course, was promptly rejected, without a division. 1