Governor _Bernard_ could carry nothing in the govermental way through the presence of the troops, but was continually losing ground, and growing more and more obnoxious to the inhabitants; so that he was abused in scurrilous publications, for which the Boston gazette was notorious. They were craftily calculated for the meridian where they first appeared, and suited the too levelling disposition of the _Bay-men_; after the politicians had encouraged a spirit of licentiousness, in order to weaken the force of government, and counteract the designs carrying on against their liberties: but their want of decency offended many of the sons of liberty in the other colonies. Heavy threats were also thrown out against the governors personal safety. Of these however he was regardless; and being asked by a friend, how he could venture to walk about alone at his country seat, only five miles from the center of Boston, and whether he was not afraid, he answered, “No, they are not a blood-thirsty people.” At length it was thought proper to recal him, as said, to lay before his majesty the true state of the province: this he signified to the assembly in the month of June. Before they were prorogued they embraced the occasion for drawing up a petition to his majesty in which, after complaints of him, they entreated that he might be for ever removed from the goverment of the province. When his letters, written home in confidence, came to be exposed to public view, it would have argued great weakness to have continued him, unless it was designed to adopt his plans, and support him by force at all adventures. Governor Bernard was too open, and had too little command of his temper; and suffered his resentment to get the better of what ought to have been his political judgment. Every governor should divest himself of resentment, especially in his public capacity, as his own happiness, and that of the governed require it.