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From: "Jill Jackson" <>
Subject: RE: [PJ] Guy Fawkes Day 5th Nov.
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:46:03 +1100
In-Reply-To: <OGEELKEHANIHLMOJNLCJIEEMJLAA.ckennedy@bigpond.net.au>


Thanks Lesley for this item, I remember your posting, similar to this,
some time ago, it is good to have a reminder to day.

Typical George Howe text in the Gazette :)

Regards,

Jill J


Sydney Gazette
11 November 1804

The detestation in which the memory of the incendiary whose name must
render
remarkable the 5th of November, was here strongly marked on Monday last,
and
was, we believe the first Australian Fête in commemoration of his
impiety. A
patriot crowd composed of boys from three to seven years or more, formed
a
cavalcade to exhibit and assist in the execution of Guy Vaux’s
representative;
but with such aversion did the little multitude regard the object of
disgust,
that, impatient of his crimes, and irritated by the unmoved muscles of
the
culprit’s countenance, a hundred willing hands were offered to rid the
world of
such a hardened, unrepenting sinner. Vengeance, unable longer to brook
delay,
the whole procession before dark closed at once upon the criminal, who
in an
instant was torn limb from limb, and thus expiated his offence.


Lesley Uebel



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