A brief column noting that a ‘publication of a new paper, to be called The Patriot, is in contemplation. One leading feature in the conducting of The Patriot is to be the advocacy of the Roman Catholic cause in the Willis controversy’. Justice John Walpole Willis, an outspoken judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court, had earlier offended Roman Catholics in the colony.
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See also 'Justice Willis and the Roman Catholics'. The Colonist (1 August 1838): 2.