The writer for the Sydney Monitor discusses the authorship of Party Politics Exposed in a Letter Addressed to the Right Honorable, the Secretary of State for the Colonies: Containing Comments on Convict Discipline in New South Wales by an Emigrant of 1821. The 'Emigrant of 1821' is also known as 'Humanitas'. The Monitor's writer identifies one of those who make up the pseudonymous 'Humanitas' as William Watt, assistant editor of the Sydney Gazette.
The writer states: 'We believe [the pamphlet] to have been written by Mr. Watt, who holds a ticket-of-leave, and is joint Editor of the Sydney Gazette along with Mr.O'Shaughnessy, who became free by servitude about four years ago. Another contributor to this paper is an Emigrant, who himself has been twice convicted of offences in this Colony, for one of which he was transported to a Penal Settlement for two or three years.'
The writer further contents that 'Mr. Watt wrote Humanitas in the Office of the Sydney Monitor, in February last [1834], unknown to us at the time; and it was not until he left our service that we discovered that he had employed himself during the last month he was with us, in this connection.(Party Politics Exposed quotes a publication that was being printed at the Monitor's offices during the time in which Watt was superintendent of printing, giving him access to all correspondence.)
