The Sydney Gazette

Its job was to oversee the various toll roads that were popping up around the colony and building infrastructure.

Governor Macquarie publicly announced three road trustees in the Sydney Gazette, the Reverend Marsden, Andrew Thompson and Simeon Lloyd.

The latter two were highly successful businessmen and widely respected, but they were also emancipists and so Marsden was appalled to be appointed to serve on a three-man board with two dirty emancipists.

Jesus, of course, was famous for hanging out with outcasts.

The relationship had started badly, got worse, and then this personal spat grew until it merged with the larger split in colonial society.

In late 1815, when Marsden was back from New Zealand, Ellis Bent's death at 32 shocked the colony, and as we saw last episode, Marsden preached a sermon claiming God had killed Ellis Bent in divine retribution for the colony attempting to admit emancipist solicitors.

From 1814, anonymous letters began appearing in the Sydney Gazette.

The charge was that Christian philanthropists in London had given books for a public library of religious works to be created in Sydney and that the boxes had gone to Marsden, who kept the books as a private collection.

After bearing the complicated hardships of want, weariness and pain, their feet blistered and bare, their hopes destroyed, their perseverance completely worn out, and their restless dispositions perfectly corrected into submission.

the art of printing had been gradually improving from the period of its establishment by the judicious care of governor hunter and its advantages became daily more and more obvious on the fifth of march the sydney gazette was instituted by authority for the more ready communication of events through the various settlements of the colony the utility and interest of such an establishment was speedily and universally acknowledged and its commencement was soon succeeded by the publication of an almanac and other words calculated to suit the general taste and increase the general stock of amusement the general orders were also issued through the medium of the press and a vigilant eye was kept upon it to prevent the appearance of anything which could tend to shake those principles of morality and subordination on the due preservation of which depended the individual happiness and the public security of the settlement and which could be in no danger of subversion until the press should become prostituted to base designs a period much and sincerely to be deprecated by every real friend to the colony in the month of august a most inhuman murder was committed on the body of joseph lucan a constable who after going off his watch at the government house was beset by some villains who still remain undiscovered and who buried the hilt of his own cutlass very deeply in his head i was the second person at the spot where the body of the unfortunate man was discovered and in attempting to turn the corpse my forefinger penetrated through a hole in the skull into the brains of the deceased every possible search was made to discover the vile perpetrators of this diabolical act but to no purpose the measures of escape had been too well planned to be thwarted even the governor himself attended and gave directions for the drums to beat to arms the military to stop all avenues leading from the town and different officers to search every house but although several were apprehended no conviction could be brought home Soon afterwards another murder was committed on the body of a man belonging to one of the colonial craft, named Boylan, it appeared that he had been in a part of the town called the rocks and had been struck with some heavy weapon on the head of which he immediately died upon this occasion i sat as foreman of the jury which was summoned soon after daylight and continued to sit until nearly one o'clock the next morning when two men and a woman were committed for trial and a third man in the progress of the investigation was sent to gaol for prevarication When the prisoners were arraigned at the bar, they all pleaded not guilty, and after an impartial trial, were acquitted.

The singularity and cruelty of this man's murder appeared to be equal to that of Lucan.

A third murder was committed nearly at the same time by a woman named Salmon on the body of her own child.

Yeah, yeah.

So the first recorded mention of Mosquito by British colonists appears in the Sydney Gazette in 1803.

And this is a story about ritual combat in which he apparently defended himself against 64 spears.

What was going on here?

After bearing the complicated hardships of want, weariness and pain, their feet blistered and bare, their hopes destroyed, their perseverance completely worn out, and their restless dispositions perfectly corrected into submission.

the art of printing had been gradually improving from the period of its establishment by the judicious care of governor hunter and its advantages became daily more and more obvious On the 5th of March, the Sydney Gazette was instituted by authority for the more ready communication of events through the various settlements of the colony.

The utility and interest of such an establishment was speedily and universally acknowledged, and its commencement was soon succeeded by the publication of an almanac, and other words calculated to suit the general taste and increase the general stock of amusement.

the general orders were also issued through the medium of the press and a vigilant eye was kept upon it to prevent the appearance of anything which could tend to shake those principles of morality and subordination on the due preservation of which depended the individual happiness and the public security of the settlement and which could be in no danger of subversion until the press should become prostituted to base designs a period much and sincerely to be deprecated by every real friend to the colony in the month of august a most inhuman murder was committed on the body of joseph lucan a constable who after going off his watch at the government house was beset by some villains who still remain undiscovered and who buried the hilt of his own cutlass very deeply in his head i was the second person at the spot where the body of the unfortunate man was discovered and in attempting to turn the corpse my forefinger penetrated through a hole in the skull into the brains of the deceased every possible search was made to discover the vile perpetrators of this diabolical act but to no purpose the measures of escape had been too well planned to be thwarted even the governor himself attended and gave directions for the drums to beat to arms the military to stop all avenues leading from the town and different officers to search every house but although several were apprehended no conviction could be brought home Soon afterwards another murder was committed on the body of a man belonging to one of the colonial craft, named Boylan, it appeared that he had been in a part of the town called the rocks and had been struck with some heavy weapon on the head of which he immediately died upon this occasion i sat as foreman of the jury which was summoned soon after daylight and continued to sit until nearly one o'clock the next morning when two men and a woman were committed for trial and a third man in the progress of the investigation was sent to gaol for prevarication When the prisoners were arraigned at the bar they all pleaded not guilty and after an impartial trial were acquitted.

He arrived back in Sydney on the 30th of September 1817.

News of his return after almost nine years was greeted with perfect silence by the government-owned Sydney Gazette.

Elizabeth had done a terrific job with the family's sheep business, which was by now absolutely booming.

Ship after ship was sailing from Sydney ports and packed with bales of valuable wool, much of it MacArthur wool.

Mm.

There's a reference to, in January 8, 1804, a brief paragraph in the Sydney Gazette about cricket.

Mm-hmm.

This is the...

[laughs]

No one from PETA saying, "This is outrageous." So, uh, people would watch.

The Sydney Gazette would provide coverage of the events.

Oh, okay.