The Sydney gazette and New South Wales advertiser

“ Still we must think that no persons connected with the Press should venture, upon the unauthenticated statements of a stranger, to denounce whole communities,–especially when they appertain to the Colonies. ”

“ Some, perhaps, may imagine, that, in thus acting, we are imbuing this impostor with more importance, than is necessary; but we think differently; because the channels, which he has selected, and most miraculously obtained, for the circulation of his slanders, are neither mean nor obscure, and it is, on this account, that we shall devote a short space to the uncloaking of this bad-hearted man, that the British public may know to what extent his statements may be credited, and relied upon. ”