...Townshend reported his resolutions to the House, when a strenuous effort was made to have them re-committed; the friends of Rockingham, pretending to wish a more lenient mea- sure, yet joining with Grenville who spoke for one more severe, effective and general. But Townshend, by surpassing eloquence, brought the House back to his first Resolutions, which were adopted at about nine in the evening withou...