The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal

New-York, June 10. Last Wednesday being the day on which the harbour of Boston was finally and most unjustly deprived of its principal and rightful advantages; by act of parliament, a very great number of the friends of American liberty, in the city, procured the effigies of Thomas Hutchinson, late Governor of the Massachusetts-Bay --Lord North and Mr. Wedderburne, patrons whom they supposed to have been most active in bringing about the above melancholy scene, as well as being most unfriendly to the rights of America in general, to be exhibited on a gallows, together with the effigy of the Devil at their right hand, alluding to their diabolical machinations against the rights of this country. On the back of the three first were affixed the three following labels.

That arch hypocrite and traitor, Thomas Hutchinson, late Governor of the Massachusetts Bay, who to aggrandize himself, has, by the most artful, base and false representations involved his native country in the greatest calamity and distress—An unnatural villain of the first magnitude suffering the just vengeance of his unparallelled perfidy!!!

The ignoble Lord North, an insidious and implacable enemy to the liberties of America—A slave of power and betrayer of his country---A blood thirsty wretch, who declared that he would never rest till he had prostrated this land of liberty at his feet—Americans behold him receiving his just demerits!

The mercenary and indefeasibly infamous Wedderburne— A recreant reviler and calumniator of the great and worthy Doctor Franklin—This is the traitorous wretch, whom Junius says, "treachery itself cannot trust."

In Hutchinson's right hand were the Boston and Plymouth addresses, and signers names—In Lord North's, the port bill, the regulating bill, and the bill for the better administering of justice in the province of Massachusetts Bay And in Mr. Wedderburne's, the letter of Hutchinson and Oliver to Mr. Whately—Near his infernal Majesty, on the gallows, were these words---Devil, do thy office--- With tartarean sulphur destroy these pests of mankind.

These were carried through the principal streets in the city, and thence to the Coffee- House, where they were attended, in the evening of that day, it is thought, by the greatest concourse of spectators ever seen on a similar occasion, and there destroyed in sulphureous flames. After which the multitude immediately dispersed; in the most peaceable orderly manner.