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The editor of the Sydney Gazette vents his spleen against Edward Smith Hall, calling him (among other things) 'a cowardly libeller', 'a political poltroon' and 'a sugar-candy sucker and a tea-drinking biped'. The Gazette's editorial responds to Hall's column in the Sydney Monitor ('Humanitas', 26 July 1834) firstly on the issue of the divide between 'native born' and free settlers versus convicts, ex-convicts and ticket-of-leave holders.
The Gazette then notes Hall's charges that William Watt is one of the authors who go by the name of 'Humanitas'. The Gazette's writer says: 'As an act of justice to the writer and at his urgent request, we have inserted the letter from Mr. Watt, which will be found in another column... Mr. Watt is nothing to us - he may have written the pamphlet which goes under the name of that terrible fellow Humanitas ... for all we know. He superintends the printing department in the Gazette Office, and discharges his duty with diligence and fidelity. But if he really be Humanitas and his object was to create a sensation, he is a lucky fellow, for he certainly has done so.'
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Humanitas and the Editors of the Prisoners' Journal
1834
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— Appears in: The Sydney Monitor , 2 August vol. 9 no. 712 1834; (p. 2)Edward Smith Hall, chooses not to reply directly to the Sydney Gazette's editorial of 31 July 1834. He does, however, take up the comments made by William Watt in a letter published in the Gazette on the same day. Hall provides a differing version of events to that proposed by Watt in regard to their falling out over Watt's employment at the Monitor. Hall also argues the that letter, written by him and quoted by Watt in the Gazette, shows him in a favourable and honorable light. He explains that he was deceived by early advice regarding Watt's character and details what he now knows of Watt's background.
Hall also announces his decision to pursue Watt and the Gazette's editor, Edward O'Shaughnessey, through legal avenues.
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Humanitas and the Editors of the Prisoners' Journal
1834
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Monitor , 2 August vol. 9 no. 712 1834; (p. 2)Edward Smith Hall, chooses not to reply directly to the Sydney Gazette's editorial of 31 July 1834. He does, however, take up the comments made by William Watt in a letter published in the Gazette on the same day. Hall provides a differing version of events to that proposed by Watt in regard to their falling out over Watt's employment at the Monitor. Hall also argues the that letter, written by him and quoted by Watt in the Gazette, shows him in a favourable and honorable light. He explains that he was deceived by early advice regarding Watt's character and details what he now knows of Watt's background.
Hall also announces his decision to pursue Watt and the Gazette's editor, Edward O'Shaughnessey, through legal avenues.
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