Author: Anon [G. D.]

Publication: Loyal Reformers' Gazette

Published: 17 March 1832

Place of publication: Glasgow, Scotland

Publication type: Newspaper/Periodical

No full copy of this poem is available.

Archive/Library: Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Classmark(s): Reel Number: 3089; Pressmark: SNMU 175/98
Pages(s): 244

Like, 'The General Fast', this is another poem (published in the same month) which reveals the Loyal Reformers' Gazette's sectarian dimensions.  The poem associates Catholics with pomp, luxury and the Tories, and it casts priests as 'sordid' and 'perverting truth'.  A note is included 'St Rollox, March, 1832' - presumably where and when the poem was written.  St Rollox was once the name for the Woodside area in Glasgow.