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This column rebuts the reports in British newspapers of unsympathetic treatment Stirling Castle shipwreck survivor Eliza Fraser received in Sydney, New South Wales, after her rescue.
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An account taken from 'Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine for September' [1837?]. The account is published in the Sydney Gazette according to the editorial, because it '... differs so materially in detail from the statements made by the same parties when [in the Colony]'.
Alexander's East India Magazine, and Colonial Commercial Journal, was published 1831-1842. A column in the Sydney Monitor (25 January 1832): 2, records that Alexander's East India Magazine was edited by Robert M. Martin, formerly of the colony of New South Wales.