This column refers to an article, The Liberty of the Press Endangered, published in the Sydney Monitor, 4 April 1838. It also alludes to the objection by the New South Wales attorney general, John Hubert Plunkett, to serving as a steward with the editor of the Sydney Gazette, George Cavenagh, at the 1838 St Patrick's Day Ball in Sydney, New South Wales.
See also St Patrick's Ball - the Attorney General - and the Editor of the Sydney Gazette.