Yes, and elsewhere in that same edition of that newspaper, there is a report of a sermon with that text as it's theme,
that had been preached that very week
by Rev Erskine, a Wesleyan Missionary.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2181456 1821 ... Howe ... publishers of the Gazette were staunch Wesleyans
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/howe-robert-2252 he experienced a spiritual awakening and, in his own words, was 'wonderfully and mercifully visited by God and snatched from infamy in this world and Hell in the next'. He joined the group of Methodists who were working in Sydney and their influence, particularly that of Rev. Ralph Mansfield, was apparent when he published The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence, the first periodical to appear in Australia. The first number appeared in May 1821 and the publication continued until September 1822
It is likely that if there's any innuendo in the cutting re Thomas Rushton's death that it is editorial. The report of the inquest out at Cumberland may not have reached the Gazette office in Sydney in time for publication on 22 November, 1822. The usual way to reach Parramatta in 1822 was via the river rather than by the deteriorating road on horse
JM (some of my ancestors were Wesleyans in Sydney in that era).
