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This issue reprints a short paragraph from the Colonial Times stating, in part, that the 'Theatre [Royal, Hobart] has closed for the season, and most of the performers have betaken themselves to Sydney, under an engagement to some managers there.'
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Most of the correspondence in this issue is in defence of the Launceston port officer, Matthew Curling Friend. It includes replies by the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, William Lushington Goodwin. The two men were in a long running feud that escalated in 1838.
Contents
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The Courier's Hellish Plot Against the Public,
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In the latter half of this attack on the [Hobart Town] Courier newspaper, the writer (probably the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle William Lushington Goodwin), in response to a request by a gentlemen 'to forward to him the Chronicle, "as he intends giving up the Courier - there being nothing in it"' gives his thoughts on newspapers: 'In all newspapers - there is subject enough to amuse and to instruct. It is the honesty of a Newspaper in its political principles that gives it influence, and entitles it to public support ... Newspapers are the mirrors in which are reflected, the people's habit and character, as truly as the Editor's articles and the communications of correspondents, shew the political character of a people, so do the advertising columns shew their mercantile and commercial character - and, indeed, their moral character. The newspapers furnish an unerring standard of the character of a community, and as they point it out, so they form it ... we desire not that any person should withdraw his patronage from another Journal in our favor, merely because he can find nothing in it to read.'
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Vulgar Pronunciation,
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column
A piece about the pronunciation of the English language.
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Sir Walter Scott's Monument,
single work
column
A brief paragraph probably taken from an English newspaper or magazine.
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Compositors Wanted,
single work
advertisement
An advertisement for two compositors for the Cornwall Chronicle.
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Compositor Wanted,
single work
advertisement
An advertisement for a compositor 'to work upon the Melbourne Advertiser'. Applicants were asked to apply to the [Cornwall] Chronicle Office. The advertisement is dated 10 February 1838.
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Reporter Wanted,
single work
advertisement
An advertisement for a reporter for the Cornwall Chronicle. The advertisement is dated 3 March 1838.
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The Cornwall Almanack,
single work
advertisement
An advertisement for the 1838 edition of the Cornwall Almanack.