Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 4062 25 August 1838 of The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser est. 1803 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
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* Contents derived from the 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Mr McLeay, single work column
The Sydney Gazette takes the Australian to task over its motto 'Vox populi - vox dei'.
(p. 2)
A Benefit, William Kerr , single work column
A short report on Maria Taylor's benefit in which the plays presented by the Royal Victoria Theatre are briefly discussed. Maria Taylor (ca. 1813-1841) was an actress in nineteenth century Sydney. The author (William Kerr?) also alludes to Taylor's conduct '... on Tuesday evening last ... with the hope that we may never witness a repetition of such behaviour...'
(p. 2)
The Mechanics' School of Arts, single work column
A brief report on a lecture at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. The discussion being 'whether ... Tragedy or Comedy the more powerful influence on mankind. After an animated debate, in which Messrs. Cape, Windeyer, a'Beckett, Taylor and Dr. Nicholson took part, the question was decided, by a small majority, in favour of tragedy.'
(p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Spencer's Benefit, single work advertisement

An advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, as a benefit for the actor Albert Spencer, on 28 August 1838, to include 'Shakespeare's celebrated Tragedy, entitled King Lear'; 'After which (for the first time in this Colony) ... the celebrated popular Comic Song, entitled "Jim Crow"'; and '(for the first time at this Theatre) the 'grand Eastern Spectacle, entitled Timour the Tartar'.

(p. 3)
Royal Victoria Theatre : The Knights Templars; or, Ivanhoe and the Jew of York's Daugher &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 25 August 1838 to include the 'Romantic Drama, entitled The Knights Templars' and the 'Laughable Farce, called The Rival Pages'.

(p. 3)
Macpherson the Robber, single work prose

The subject of this piece is James Macpherson (ca. 1675-1700) a Scottish 'thief and reputed musician', according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. The unknown author of the piece quotes from Robert Burns' poem about Macpherson, 'Macpherson's Farewell' (1788) as well as from a ballad by James Herd entitled 'MacPherson's Rant' (1769) .

AustLit has not yet established if this is work is by an Australian writer. The work may have been sourced from an international publication.

Source: Mary Anne Alburger, ‘MacPherson, James (c.1675–1700)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17727, accessed 28 May 2014]

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Notes:
Contains the 75th instalment of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, (p. 4).
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