AustLit

The Sydney Monitor remarks that the 'opposition' of Swan River Guardian 'appears to be of a very injudicious kind'. The editor's 'whole talk is about his own paper, and his own concerns so opposed to the Government'. The Monitor suggests that the Guardian become 'less pert'. The Sydney-based newspaper believes the Guardian's editor is 'an attorney of the name of Clarke' who 'seems quite unfledged, not only as an editor, but as a man. We judge him to be a very young man, who has just served his apprenticeship as a copyer of wills and deeds. He will ruin himself, and do the Colony no good'.