The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal

He was received into the Society of the Friends of Liberty and his country. But alas! the Acclamations of Millions, proclaiming his Reformation, and the pleasures of accepted Contrition, were not able to protect him from a Second seduction. He was led on from one Degree of Venality to another, until he was at last prevailed upon to commit MURDER upon the Character of an illustrious AMERICAN Patriot Philosopher, and high Treason against BRITAIN and her Colonies. While you tread heavily upon his Dust, Remember, that the Pangs of a Just Fall from Virtue, are not to be compared with the Anguish of a Heart, awakened to the Guilt of a Second Defection. Also: that great Abilities and Eloquence, are not the Marks of a Favourite of Heaven, They would not have been conferred upon This unhappy Culprit, He was executed Mar 7d, 1774, in the City of Philadelphia, in the Presence of many thousand Spectators, He had no Friends to lament his Fate, for "Treachery would not trust him:"— He had no Enemies to forgive— for he was below Contempt. Even the Eye of Pity (which sometimes drops at the Expiration of Murder,) refused him this Tribute of Humanity.

EPITAPH,
To The Memory of THOMAS HUTCHINSON.
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
He was descended from an ancient Race of American Worthies, And was educated in the principles of Virtue and Religion.
But alas! what availed the Renown of his Ancestors, And the holy Precepts of his Parents He remembered no more of the former; And practised no more of the latter, Than were sufficient to raise him to The first Offices, and Honours of the Government.
He was an Enemy to Virtue, Liberty and his Country,
Let Antiquity be dumb, nor Reproach with Obloquy, her Cataline, Caligula, and Nero
Since Mankind are here furnished With an Instance of Depravity which Includes with their Guilt, the Basest Hypocrisy,
His private Virtues did not atone for His public Vices.
Similis Proteo mutet, et fallacior Catalina.
Hunc vos Britanni cavete!
He was detected in an Attempt To "abridge the English Liberties" And to destroy the Charter of his Native Province,
Let Posterity remember with Gratitude The illustrious Dr. FRANKLIN (not less successful in disarming Political Than natural Clouds of their Mischief)
For this Discovery, Although this treacherous Governor Was defended by one of the most artful British Counsellors, yet he was Condemned by a Jury of all the Freeman in Britain and America To be hanged, and burned
March 7th 1774, in the City of Philadelphia Presence of many thousand Spectators: Who while they exulted in This