We  fhall  next  attend  to  the  conduct  of  the
troops,  and  to  fome  circumftances  relative  to
them. — Governor  Bernard  without  confulting
the  Council,  having  given  up  theState-houfe  to
the  troops  at  their  landing,  they  took  pofleflion
of  the  chambers, where  the  reprefentatives  of  the
province  and  the  courts  of  law  held  their  meet-
ings ;  and  (except  the  council-chamber)  of  all
other  parts  of  that  houfe :  in  which  they  conti-
nued a  confiderable  time,  to  the  great  annoyance
of  thofe  courts  while  they  fat,  and  qf  the  mer-
chants and  gentlemen  of  the  town,  who  had  al-
ways made  the  lower  floor  of  it  their  exchange.
