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This column is in the form of an editor's note preceding the publishing of James Martin's prose piece 'Botany Bay' taken from The Australian Sketch Book (1838). In this column the Sydney Gazette's editor (George Cavenagh?), though agreeing with much of the sentiments of the author ('particularly ... to the ... erecting a monument ... to the memory of the gallant [James] Cook') opines that 'we observe indications of the existence of opinions on the part of the author, which by no means meet with our assent ... we have marked a passage in italics, altogether inconsistent with our views of scriptural truth ...' The passage (in reference to the grave of a chaplain from La Pérouse's expedition) is: 'pray sincerely from the inmost recesses of their hearts, for the soul of the departed'. This is not consistent with the Protestant view of the soul.
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The Australian Sketchbook
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— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 9 October vol. 36 no. 4081 1838; (p. 2)This column is probably written by the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, George Cavenagh. It is a justification for the writer's previous remarks on James Martin's 'Botany Bay' essay published in the Sydney Gazette issue of 4 October 1838 (2). 'The author of The Australian Sketch Book', states the writer, 'complains that we do him injustice in attributing to him the possession of opinions favourable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayers for the dead ...'
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The Australian Sketchbook
1838
single work
column
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 9 October vol. 36 no. 4081 1838; (p. 2)This column is probably written by the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, George Cavenagh. It is a justification for the writer's previous remarks on James Martin's 'Botany Bay' essay published in the Sydney Gazette issue of 4 October 1838 (2). 'The author of The Australian Sketch Book', states the writer, 'complains that we do him injustice in attributing to him the possession of opinions favourable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayers for the dead ...'
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