Excerpt from The Barrington-Bernard Correspondence: And Illustrative Matter, 1760-1770; Drawn From the "Papers of Sir Francis Bernard" (Sometime Governor of Massachusetts-Bay) In the present state of the Colony of Massachusets, I presume it is not an improbable supposition, that no magis trates will be found, who will assist with their authority in executing the laws made by the Parliament of Great Britain: while this Situation continues, the riotous mobs, directed by the factious leaders of that country, must govern it; and they cannot be quelled, or even resisted by the army, which must therefore remain in a disgraceful inaction; enriching with its pay a delinquent Colony, and in continual hazard of insult and bloodshed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.