This action was unknown to the popular leaders, and the month of August passed in doubt as to whether the Ministers would be persuaded to quarter troops in Boston.  The town was remarkably quiet, when the Governor issued (August 3, 1768) a proclamation against riots, and calling all magistrates to suppress tumults and unlawful assemblies, and to restore vigor and firmness to the Government.  “It cannot be wondered at,” said “Determinatus,” (August 8,) in the “Gazette,” “if the mother-country should think that we are in a state of confusion equal to what we hear from the orderly and very polite cities of London and Westminster.  There, we are told, is the weavers’ mob, the seamen’s mob, the tailors’ mob, the coal-miners’ mob, and some say the clergy’s mob; and, in short, it is to be feared the whole kingdom, always excepting the * * * * and P——­t, will unite in one general scene of tumult.  I sincerely pray for the peace and prosperity of the nation and her colonies, whose interest, if she would open her eyes, she would clearly discern to be undivided.”  The journals during this month have full details of these mobs.  The coal-heavers of Wapping destroyed property and committed murders, and two thousand keel-men and sailors of Sunderland fairly beat off the King’s troops that were sent against them from Newcastle.  Happily such want of reverence for law was unknown in Boston or the Province.  Still the Governor kept on representing that he was under the control of a mob; and another day of rejoicing gave him another opportunity of misrepresenting the people.  This was the fourteenth of August, being the third celebration of the uprising against the Stamp Act.  In the procession on this occasion there was one man who had had a hand in the attack on the Lieutenant-Governor’s house on the twenty-sixth of August, and had in consequence incurred the penalty of death, and who was now celebrating his mob-exploits; and at the head of the procession were two Boston merchants, who thus were charged with countenancing mobs.  The Governor well knew that the Patriots abhorred the outrages of the twenty-sixth of August as much as they gloried in the uprising against the stamp-duty on the fourteenth of August.  Hutchinson, moreover, was a good deal disturbed by the public affronts put upon the Commissioners, who were still at the Castle, though their subordinates were in town collecting the revenue.  The Cadets, on motion of Hancock, voted to exclude them from the usual public dinner; and the town voted to refuse the use of Faneuil Hall for the dinner, unless with the stipulation that the Commissioners were not to be invited.  Such proceedings, with petitions and resolutions, made nearly the whole outrage of the Boston “trained mob” that the Governor talked about.  Yet he affected to be in fear of an insurrection, and on the last day of the month whiningly wrote,—­“The town is at present just as defensible as it was two years ago,—­not a sergeant’s guard of real soldiers within two hundred miles of it.”