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Serialised in the Sydney Times in two instalments between 15 August and 22 August 1834. The first instalment is reprinted on 19 August 1834.

Editor's note: 'The friends of morality, in common with the lovers of literature, and all persons capable of appreciating the excellence of composition, and the wit, and the strength, and classic beauty of satire, will find a treat in our Poet's Corner. We are assured that our talented contributor, who has so obligingly anticipated our invocation to the Muses and Bards of Australia in the first number, adds the extraordinary merit of rapidity of composition, almost incredible, to qualities which our wits and our literati will estimate as they deserve - most highly; this Satire and "Moral Poem" containing nearly 300 lines, being the produce of three or four evening's amusement, and written expressly for THE TIMES since its announcement on the 1st inst. It contains some masterly strokes, and the bold writer who thus dare "To lash the vices of an imperious age," will we trow cause some of the more sensitive of our Gentry to bite their lips and "chew a cud of gall." Let none whose "deeds are dark," hug themselves too soon, as having escaped the ordeal of being dragged into light, as the 200 lines in this number of THE TIMES is but a portion of a series of Colonial Satires promised to us by the gifted author.' The Sydney Times (15 August, 1834), p.2.