 (This office fell to George Gawler from 17 October 1838).Robert Gouger, who had edited Edward Gibbon Wakefield's "Letter from Sydney" (1829), had led a campaign to persuade the British government to help to bring about Wakefield's colonisation scheme.In 1831 the South Australian Land Company (SALC), which lobbied for a Royal Charter to establish a colony in Australia which would be administered by those who were developing the land in the colony, with the sales of the land financing assistance to certain categories of emigrants to the colony.