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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 4 no. 152 6 January 1838 of The Cornwall Chronicle est. 1835 The Cornwall Chronicle
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Notes

  • This issue contains a column, not separately indexed, entitled 'George Town'. The column was the basis for a charge of libel brought by the Launceston port officer and resident magistrate of George Town, Matthew Curling Friend, against the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, William Lushington Goodwin. The column is not separately indexed. Goodwin and Friend were in a long running feud that escalated in 1838.
  • The advertisement ‘The Cornwall Almanack’ appears on pages three and five of this issue of The Cornwall Chronicle.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Untitled, single work column
This editorial continues an argument with the True Colonist newspaper over the misconstruing of remarks concerning the 'want of an Assistant Police Magistrate' in Launceston. 'The character of the Cornwall Chronicle', writes the editor, 'is too well known and appreciated, to suffer any deterioration in public opinion from ... ungenerous inferences ...'
(p. 2)
Quamby's Bluff, Western District to Mount Wellington, single work prose

A semi-serious humorous prose piece purportedly written by Quamby's Bluff [Quamby Bluff] to his 'brother' mountain, Mount Wellington - both geographical features in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Quamby's Bluff has 'read' of a trip taken by a group of 'people of ton' to the summit of Mount Wellington in a report 'written by a lady' published in Murray's Review [The Austral-Asiatic Review].

Two excursions, the first including Lady Jane Franklin wife of the lieutenant-governor Sir John Franklin, were made to the summit of Mount Wellington in mid December 1837. The Hobart Town Courier on page four of the 29 December 1837 issue mentions that a 'series of sketches of the more amusing incidents during both excursions, was made ...'.

Quamby's Bluff is 'querulous at reading such milk and water doings as seems to be the tea table tattle of the little ant hill [presumably Hobart Town] at your [that is, at Mount Wellington's] feet'. The report, writes Quamby's Bluff, seems not to take in to account both mountains' 'isolated situation, tow[e]ring alone above the flats and forests of this cold and chilling country'. However Quamby's Bluff expects 'some poeti ing [sic] upon our Bluff-hearing and bold, bald front ; as [the] report says, the leader of these people [presumably Sir John Franklin who visited the Launceston area in January 1838], and his attendants visit ...[our] domains, and ... his swarm of scribes and scribblers, poets and pencil sketchers, will, in their egotism take off old Quamby; but, Brother, we've chips of stone here, sons of the soil, hard, hard as flint, sturdy and independent, listed in our cause, who we shall employ with pencil and pen in defense of our bluntness and exterior ; and we will send you through our publications on this side, how we shall find it requisite to act.'

This piece seems to dismiss frivolous or tame descriptions of the landscape by privileged visitors in favour of more realistic depictions by 'sons of the soil'.

It may also be an allegory warning the newspapers of the Hobart region that newspapers in the Launceston area are able to write 'in defense' of their own concerns.

(p. 3)
To Be Sold by Public Auction, by Mr Geo. Eddie, single work advertisement
The auction includes 'A variety of Books, comprising Works of Bulwer [Edward Bulwer Lytton], [Walter] Scott, [George Gordon] Byron, [Oliver] Goldsmith, &c., &c.'
(p. 3)
In the Matter of the Insolvency of Geoffrey Eagar, of Launceston, Printer, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the auction by J. W. Bell on 6 January 1838 of 'an Allotment of Ground ... with a substantial, well finished Brick Cottage' in Launceston belonging to the printer Geoffrey Amos Eagar. It appears that Eagar's land and cottage were not sold at auction on the 6th January or that the auction did not take place at that time. An auction was re advertised for the 8 March 1838.

(p. 3)
The Cornwall Almanack, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the 1838 edition of the Cornwall Almanack.

(p. 3)
The Cornwall Almanack, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the 1838 edition of the Cornwall Almanack.

(p. 5)
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