The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal

The foregoing letter was first published in the Middlesex Journal, an ENGLISH paper, and no notice taken of it, either by the King, his privy council, Lord MANSFIELD, or the Attorney General; it has been republished in a neighbouring province, but we hear of no prosecution commenced against the printer. --It seems as though I. Thomas, the printer of this paper, is the only person of his profession, marked out by a tool of ministerial power for a SACRIFICE. For what reason is not known, unless it be for printing a FREE paper. The piece signed AKOLAX, directed to the King, in No. 82, of the Massachusetts Spy, we are informed his Excellency laid before his council about a fortnight ago, and last Thursday, it is said, they unanimously resolved, that the King's Attorney be ordered to prosecute the printer IN WHAT MANNER He Thinks Best: Whether the designer of this prosecution in him who first promoted it, was MALICIOUS, we leave the world to determine. Should the liberty of the press be once destroyed, farewell the remainder of our invaluable rights and privileges! We may next expect padlocks on our lips, fetters on our legs, and only our hands left at liberty to slave for our worse than Egyptian taskmasters, or-- FIGHT OUR WAY TO CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM!!

I. THOMAS.