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The writer for the Gazette expounds on recent attempts to discover the identity of the person writing as 'Humanitas': 'To ascertain the author of the pamphlet signed 'Humanitas', we have had the fidelity of our compositors attempted--and since then, threats have been bountifully used to extort (as a protection for himself) the all-important secret of identity from another hired and confidential servant, to whom the writer was necessarily obliged to confide his name--that individual being now the manager of the printing department in this office.'
The Gazette's writer expresses the view that those who sought to identify 'Humanitas' 'doubtless thought that the writer would avow himself, in consequence of their puny threats towards a party whom, they think, is not able to protect himself'. That, however, has not been the case as the 'party' has friends who will protect him.
(A subsequent column in the Sydney Monitor indicates that Edward Smith Hall understands himself to be the person charged with being the alleged seeker of 'Humanitas's identity.)
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To the Joint-Editors of the Sydney Gazette
1834
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— Appears in: The Sydney Monitor , 15 April vol. 8 no. 681 1834; (p. 2)Edward Smith Hall vehemently denies the inference of the Sydney Gazette that he is the person who has sought, through underhand means, to uncover the identity of 'Humanitas'. Smith charges the 'joint editors' of the Gazette to 'produce your proofs; which, if you cannot do, then publish a confession of either your folly or your malice, as your consciences respectively may suggest.'
Hall goes on to lay his own charges against the editors of the Gazette. He challenges them to deny that they did not obtain pamphlets published by Hall and subsequently use, or cause to be used, said pamphlets in the writings of 'Humanitas'. Hall claims his work was 'surreptitiously obtained' from his bookbinder.
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To the Joint-Editors of the Sydney Gazette
1834
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Monitor , 15 April vol. 8 no. 681 1834; (p. 2)Edward Smith Hall vehemently denies the inference of the Sydney Gazette that he is the person who has sought, through underhand means, to uncover the identity of 'Humanitas'. Smith charges the 'joint editors' of the Gazette to 'produce your proofs; which, if you cannot do, then publish a confession of either your folly or your malice, as your consciences respectively may suggest.'
Hall goes on to lay his own charges against the editors of the Gazette. He challenges them to deny that they did not obtain pamphlets published by Hall and subsequently use, or cause to be used, said pamphlets in the writings of 'Humanitas'. Hall claims his work was 'surreptitiously obtained' from his bookbinder.
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 1803 newspaper (725 issues)
- The Sydney Monitor 1828 newspaper (284 issues)
- 1834
