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A column relating to the legal action taken on behalf of Edward O'Shaughnessy. The action arose from a column written by John Dunmore Lang in which he argued that no person 'who has been transported for a felony, but who subsequently obtained his freedom, is a fit person to have the management of the Press in a convict colony'.