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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 1 no. 1 January 1838 of The Australian Magazine est. 1838 The Australian Magazine
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dedication : To the Australian Public, single work column (p. 1)
Australia, single work essay (p. 3-5)
Addressed to His Excellency Sir Richard Bourkei"With thee, far-famed illustrious man !", single work poetry

Poem in praise of Sir Richard Bourke.

'Praises Bourke's rule in eighteenth-century couplets.' (Webby)

 (p. 5)
A True Story, H. S. (fl. 1838) , single work short story
A beautiful girl and a young officer fall in love. The officer is sent with his regiment to Australia and does not return. The girl dies 'worn out with the intense ardour of her feelings'.
 (p. 6-8)
Botany Bay, J. A. B. , single work prose

In her biography of James Martin, Martin of Martin Place, Elena Grainger describes this work as 'the basis of his chapter under that name in the Sketch Book' (23). The work is similar in writing style and some content to the work of the same title in Martin's Australian Sketch Book (1838).

Source: Grainger, Elena. Martin of Martin Place (Sydney, Alpha Books, 1970): 18, 23

 (p. 15-16)
Freedom of the Press, J. A. B. , single work column
Beginning with a lengthy quote from Junius, the author condemns the colony's newspapers and their editors writing that 'Candour and decency appear to be banished from their pages, and personal scurrility and unrestrained malevolence form their predominating features.'
 (p. 19-20)
The Dibbses, J. A. B. , single work short story humour

An imposter, Mr Bedford, tricks a colonial family, Mr and Mrs Dibbs and their daughter, out of 500 pounds sterling, two horses and their pride. It is revealed at the end of the story that the impersonator 'was the celebrated Lord Lascelles!'.

'Lord Lascelles' (John Dow alias John Colquhoun alias Edward, Lord Lascelles) was a conman in the colony of New South Wales in the early 1830s. The Sydney Herald newspaper of 27 July 1835 notes that 'The celebrated "Lord Lascelles," with other convicts, embarked on board the brig Siren, on Saturday last, under a military guard, preparatory to "His Lordship's" transmission to Hobart Town.' (3)

 (p. 21-26)
The Drummer, An Australian 2 (fl. 1838) , single work prose
The purported ghost of a drummer in the Castlereagh graveyard turns out to be the sound of the Windsor town band.
 (p. 40-42)
Life of Andrew Jackson, Late President of the United States of America, single work biography

A biography of Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845), the seventh president, from 1829 to 1837, of the United States of America. This biography was originally published in the English periodical the Monthly Magazine.

 (p. 43-50)
Note: Unattributed in the Australian Magazine.
General Bourke's Intended Journey Across the Andes, From the 'Pacific' to the 'Atlantic' Side of South America, single work prose travel

This piece is not a description of an actual journey, but rather an intended one, by Sir Richard Bourke, through South America. The author ends by wondering why the route 'has not more frequently been chosen by gentlemen proceeding from New South Wales to England - that is, quitting the Colony not later than the month of January.'

Bourke returned to England in December 1837 via South America.

 (p. 50-52)
The New Yeari"Ye months fore doom'd to form th' ensuing year,", single work poetry (p. 52)
Extracts from a Reporter's Notes : (No. I.) : The Drunkard's Death Struggle, single work prose (p. 53-55)
Metropolitan Ramblings : (No. 1), single work prose (p. 61-62)
On Human Life, single work prose (p. 62-63)
On Happiness, single work prose (p. 64)
The White-Boys, J. A. B. , single work short story

The White-Boys, or Whiteboys, (also called Levellers) were an eighteenth century Irish secret society that defended, with violence, Irish tenant farmers rights.

Elena Grainger in her biography of James Martin, Martin of Martin Place, describes this work as 'a story of a ride from Dublin to Cork demonstrating his lifelong aptitude for convincing descriptions of places he had never seen but had read about' (23). The story may have been retold to Martin by his mother or father who were from Cork, Ireland.

Source: Grainger, Elena. Martin of Martin Place (1970): 23

 (p. 65-67)
Zelikia, the Georgian Slave, J. E. (fl. 1838) , single work short story (p. 67-69)
Everlasting Fire in Persia, James Mounsey , extract correspondence

Edited version of 'The Extract of a Letter from Dr. James Mounsey, Physician of the Czarina's Army, to Henry Baker F. R. S. Concerning the Everlasting Fire in Persia'. The extract was first published in the magazine Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 45, no. 487 (1748).

 (p. 70-71)
Star of Australiai"Queen of the south! by flashing waves surrounded,", Epsilon (fl. 1836-1838) , single work poetry

'Optimistic prediction of future prosperity and greatness.' (Webby)

 (p. 71)
Note: Attributed to Epsilon in this source with a composition date of 18 December 1837.
The Soldier's Toasti"Fill me a draught ; but before 'tis tasted,", single work poetry
'To "dear woman"' (Webby)
 (p. 72)
Note: Unattributed
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