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JAIL JOURNAL;

OR,

FIVE YEARS IN BRITISH PRISONS.

COMMENCED ON BOARD THE SHEARWATER STEAMER, IN DUBLIN BAY, CONTINUED AT SPIKE
ISLAND ON BOARD THE SCOURGE WAR STEAMER-ON BOARD THE "DROMEDARY"
HULK, BERMUDA-ON BOARD THE NEPTUNE CONVICT SHIP-AT PERNAMBUCO
-AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (DURING THE ANTI-CONVICT REBELLION)
-AT VAN DIEMEN'S LAND-AT SYDNEY-AT TAHITI-AT SAN

FRANCISCO-AT GREYTOWN-AND CONCLUDED AT

NO. 8 PIER, NORTH RIVER, NEW YORK.

BY JOHN MITCHEL.

—Οὔτ ̓ ἐν τοῖς φθιμένοις
Οὔτ ̓ ἐν ζῶσιν ἀριθμουμένος.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF THE "CITIZEN,"

No. 3 SPRUCE STREET.

BUDLEJAN

31 JUL 1981

P

LIBRARY

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

JOHN MITCHEL,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

W. H. TINSON, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, 24 Beekman Street.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY.

Irish History belongs to England-How she tells it-Another Version-Ireland

finally subdued five times-The Penal Laws-Irish Industry, how fostered-Agri-

culture Our Forefathers' Famines-Berkeley-Swift's "Proposal" for a Relief

Measure-Eighteen years-Ireland unprotected and unameliorated-The Volun-

teers-Project of the Union-Union carried-Famines in 1817 and '22-The

O'Connell Agitations-"Emancipation "-Extermination-Devon Commission-

Campaign against the Celts-Slaughter-The Last Famine-British Law helps

the Famine-The Famine helps British Law-Utter Desolation-Project for

Resistance at last-Clubs-Pikes-United Irishman-Lord Clarendon-Birch,

Privy Counsellor to the Viceroy-Treason Felony-O'Brien and Meagher-Trial

by one's Country-British Providence works out his wise Dispensations

CHAPTER I.

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Newgate-Travelling Toilet-Drive to the North Wall-" No Disturbance "-Hospi

talities of the Shearwater-Capt. Hall of the "Dragon"-Not Basil Hall-Self-

Interrogation--My fellow-Felons-Spike Island-Edward Walsh-Order for

removal to Bermuda--The "Scourge" War Steamer-At Sea .

CHAPTER II.

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Yachting in the "Scourge "-Two Years before the Mast-Review of an Edin-

burgh Reviewer-The Nineteenth Century-Bombarding the Moon-Macaulay

on Bacon-The New Philosophy-Chasing our own Shadows-Good

Nineteenth Century !-Bermuda-" Ireland Island"

CHAPTER III.

Night,

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An English Steamer-The Morning Post-Edmund Burke Roche-The "Irish

Felon "-Handed over to a Man in Blue-Receipt taken-Hospitalities of the

"Dromedary "-Genesis and Growth of the Bermudas-Description of my Cell

-Precautions against Mutiny-Removed to an Hospital-ship for ten days-Back

again-The Devil's Acre, or Cemetery of Cut-throats-Sympathy in New York-

Precautions at Bermuda against an American Squadron-Prison Biography--

Suicide, pro and contra-The 42d Highlanders-Discipline-Letter from Ire-

land.

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