y separately published work icon The Colonist newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1835... vol. 1 no. 31 30 July 1835 of The Colonist est. 1835 The Colonist
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The Colonist reports that William Watt has been committed to stand trial (for inciting and bribing a compositor in his employ to steal from the office of the Sydney Herald).

The Colonist congratulates itself that 'we have done our part of the work, in getting the Augean stable of the press cleaned in this colony. We are happy to find from the result of this case, which we think would scarcely have come to its present issue but for our interference in directing public attention to Master Watt, that we have not been working wholly in vain.' The writer concludes optimistically, 'we have not lost all hope of the colony yet'.

(p. 242)
Note: The item relating to William Watt appears in a column headed 'Petition to the Commons'.
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