An account being received of _New-York_’s having refused to provide for quartering the troops, Mr. _Grenville_ and his adherents raised such a clamor against America, that it was thought necessary to bring in a bill [May 27.] “for restraining the assembly of _New-York_ from passing any act till they had complied with the act of parliament for the furnishing his majesty’s troops with the necessaries required by that act;” and it had the royal assent the second of July. The taking away in this manner from the province of _New-York_ all the powers of legislation, till they should comply with the former act, occasioned a general alarm among the Americans. They now saw that their own colonial parliaments, as they considered them, were to be bound to what the British ministry might deem their good behavior, by the acts of a British parliament. Nothing could be more grating to the sons of liberty in every province. It was the club of power, which, while it knocked down the _New-York_ assembly, threatened every other with the like, if not pliable. A plan of a board of commissioners for the American department, in order to ease the old board of commissioners of part of its burden through increasing business, had been in contemplation. It was intended to be placed in London, in order to be near the treasury, the ultimatum of revenue matters. Mr. _Paxton_, thought to be the most plausible and insinuating of mankind though not the most sincere, having left Boston and gone to Britain, had free access to the chancellor of the exchequer, Mr. _Charles Townsend_. It is said that he whined, cried, professed, swore, and made his will in favor of that great man; and then urged the necessity of an _American board of commissioners_, and his having a seat at it. He might forward the business. Be that as it may, the chancellor brought in a bill [June 3.] for establishing a custom-house and a board of commissioners in America, which also passed into an act at the same time with the former. Mr. Paxton, for his own convenience and pleasure, might procure the fixing the board at Boston; but of all places it was the most improper. The people were, of all others, the most jealous of infringements on their liberties; and were the least suited to see crown officers living among them in great state, upon what they could not but deem, from the mediocrity of their own circumstances, large salaries, payable from the revenue to be raised from the colonies. The board should have been placed at _New-York_. Smuggling was as prevalent there as at Boston. The inhabitants had been long used to crown officers with splendid appearances; the commanders of his majesty’s troops resided much among them; numbers of them lived in a higher stile than the Bostonians; beside, there the commissioners would have had forces at hand to have supported them, and have met with greater assistance from the servants of a royal government and their connections. The timing