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Edward Hall Smith proposes the sale of the copy right of the Sydney Monitor following his conviction for libel against Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott, minister at St James', King's Street and archdeacon of New South Wales. (The libel related to opinions published by Smith in the Monitor on 5 July 1828.)
Smith was ordered to pay a fine of twenty shillings to the king and was further ordered 'to enter into own recognizance in the sum of Five hundred pounds, to be of good behaviour during twelve months'.
Smith states that he would 'sooner lay down his pen altogether, than cease to write independently'. Consequently, he plans to protect himself against possible imprisonment by disposing of the Monitor's copy right and taking up the 'less hazardous and less patriotic pursuits of trade'.
Smith was ordered to pay a fine of twenty shillings to the king and was further ordered 'to enter into own recognizance in the sum of Five hundred pounds, to be of good behaviour during twelve months'.
Smith states that he would 'sooner lay down his pen altogether, than cease to write independently'. Consequently, he plans to protect himself against possible imprisonment by disposing of the Monitor's copy right and taking up the 'less hazardous and less patriotic pursuits of trade'.
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The full judgement of Judge Dowling is reproduced in the Sydney Monitor on 12 January 1829.
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