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John Mitchel

 

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[n/a] : United Irishman

'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. The sixteenth and the last [italics] number. Read all the articles. Good Martin! Brave Reilly! but you will be swallowed, my fine fellows. "Government" has adopted the vigorous policy.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

William Shakespeare : Merry Wives of Windsor

'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Thank God for Shakespeare at any rate. Baron Lefroy cannot sentence Shakespeare to death, nor so much as mulct him for damages, though I am told he deserves it for defamation of character, in the case of Sir John Falstaff.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Richard Henry Dana : Two years before the mast

'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I must have been sleepily pouring over Dana's "Two Years before the Mast": a pleasant, rough kind of book, but with something too much hauling of ropes and "handing" of sails it in. ...I have been reading also "The Amber Witch", a most beautiful German story, translated into English, by Lady Duff Gordon.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Mary Schweidler : The Amber Witch

'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I must have been sleepily pouring over Dana's "Two Years before the Mast": a pleasant, rough kind of book, but with something too much hauling of ropes and "handing" of sails it in. ...I have been reading also "The Amber Witch", a most beautiful German story, translated into English, by Lady Duff Gordon.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Essays

'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, indeed, a type-reviewer - an authentic specimen-page of nineteenth century "literature". He has the right, omniscent tone, and air, and the true knac; of administering reverential flattery to British civilisation, British prowess, honour, enlightenment, and all that, especially to the great nineteenth century and its astounding civilisation, that is, to his readers. It is altogether a new thing in the history of mankind, this triumphant glorification of a current century upon being the century it is...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Thomas Babington Macaulay : Essays [on Bacon]

'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and began to read Macaulay's essay on Bacon - "the great English teacher", as the reviewer calls him. And to do the reviewer justice, he understands Bacon, knows what Bacon did, and what he did not; and therefore sets small store by that illustrious Chimera's new "method" of investigating truth...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : Morning Post

Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June: 'Our second lieutenant instantly boarded her as officer on guard, and brought back two or three papers; and as I had seen none later than the 26th of May, I was glad to get a glance even at the "Morning Post". The leading article is about "the convict Mitchel", who is pronounced by that authority to be not only a convict but a scoundrel...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

Livy : [unknown]

'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the "Tenedos" - for I have been ten days on board - when Dr Hall entered my cabin in a violent hurry, accompanied by a negro boatman.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Abyssinia]

'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with some Portuguese missionary, and the remainder of it with Salt, or somebody else: you are never sure of your travelling companion.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Russell (ed.) : [Palestine]

'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and find them to be of the same indigestible material.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Frazer (ed.) : [Persia]

'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have also read diligently, not without many wry faces - and find them to be of the same indigestible material.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Dean Swift : [Captain Crichton's autobiography]

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. Crichton was an old cavalry officer, an Irishman, who had served in Scotland under the bloodhound Dalzell, against the Covenanters: and as he could not tell his story decently himself, the Dean, while he was staying at Markethill, took down the facts from the old man and set them forth in his own words, but using the first person - Crichton loquente. The product is highly amusing: in every page you see a Dean of St Patrick's riding down the Whigamores, or a Sergeant Bothwell in canonicals thundering against Wood's Copper. But the best thing is that our admirable Dean makes Crichton (who did not care a button about the matter) deliver with bitter venom some of his, the Dean's, own Jonathan-Swiftean opinions about church government, and contradict and vituperate Bishop Burnet with an odium almost theological, and he a mere dragoon.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

William Gifford : [autobiography]

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... William Gifford's account of himself is somewhat conceited and pragmatical, yet natural and manful. I have a deep and secret sympathy with Gifford.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Thomas Elwood : [autobiography]

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... Elwood's, however, is by far the best of the three, and is indeed one of the most downright straightforward productions I have ever met with. What a book of books an autobiography might be made, if a man were found who would and could tell the whole truth and no more than the truth!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Homer : [unknown]

''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Alexandre Dumas : Three Mousequetaires

'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's "Marquis de Letoriere", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called "Windsor Castle", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled "St Giles and St James".

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Alexandre Dumas : Marquis de Letoriere

'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's "Marquis de Letoriere", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called "Windsor Castle", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled "St Giles and St James".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

William Harrison Ainsworth : Windsor Castle

'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's "Marquis de Letoriere", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called "Windsor Castle", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled "St Giles and St James".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Douglas Jerrold : St Giles and St James

'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find to weigh very heavy. Yet the "Three Mousquetaires" of Dumas is certainly the best novel that creature has made. How is it that the paltriest feuilletoniste in Paris can always turn out something at least readable (readable, I mean, by a person of ordinary taste and knowledge) and that the popular providers of that sort of thing in London - save only Dickens - are also so very stupid, ignorant and vicious a herd? Not but the feuilleton-men are vicious enough; but then vice wrapped decently in plenty of British cant, and brutified by cockney ignorance, is triply vicious. Dumas's "Marquis de Letoriere", too, is a pleasant enough little novelette: but I have tried twice, and tried in vain, to get through a mass of letterpress called "Windsor Castle", by Ainsworth; and another by one Douglas Jerrold, entitled "St Giles and St James".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : [London newspaper]

'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown from the door of my cell, and lighted at my feet. Picking up the object, I found it to be a London paper. The Halifax mail has arrived - I long for the hour when my cell is to be locked, and carefully hide my treasure till then. At last the chief mate has locked and bolted me up for the night. I light a candle, and with shaking hands spread forth my paper. Smith O'Brien has been found guilty, and sentenced to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and hanged. The other trials pending.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : Freeman's Journal

'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indicium. The "Freeman's Journal", one number of which I have seen, ventures as a piece of incredible daring, to print some words used by Whiteside in his speech for the prisoners - words deprecatory of the packing of juries, or something of that sort. The editor ventures no remarks of his own, and carefully quotes Whiteside's words as "used by counsel".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

Madame Pichler : [Siege of Vienna]

'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" (Sobieski's Siege - a grand page of history spun out into many hundred pages of pitiful romance, and interwoven with a love-story); a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[George] [Allan?] : [biography of Walter Scott]

'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, wherein the said advocate takes superior ground, looking down, as it were, ex cathedra, upon his subject, searching out the genesis, and tracing the development of this or the other power or faculty in that popular writer; and thus by philosophic histoire raisonnee, informing us how it fell out, to the best of his, the advocate's, knowledge that Walter Scott came to write the books he did, and at the times of his life, after the fashion he did... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid;...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Dr Memes [pseud?] : [Life of William Cowper]

'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have been reading these past months; chiefly because they are of such utter offal that there is no use in remembering so much as their names. Madame Pichler's "Siege of Vienna" ...; a life of Walter Scott, by one Allen, advocate, ... In truth the book is very presumptuous and very stupid; yet it is far excelled in both these respects by another I am reading now, a life of Cowper, by Dr Memes (bookseller's hack literator of that name). Not that the writer is without genius; for he has succeeded in making a book as repulsive as it is possible for a book giving anything like a narrative of Cowper's life to be.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Francois Rabelais : [unknown]

'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Crampton, of Dame Street - and has kept me in good wholesome laughter for a fortnight - laughter of the sort that agitates the shoulders, and shakes the diaphragm, and makes the blood tingle; than which no medicine can be more cordial to me - I have read the cause of his effects in Galen.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Claudius Galen : [unknown]

'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy of Rabelais, in four volumes, imprinted by Philip Crampton, of Dame Street - and has kept me in good wholesome laughter for a fortnight - laughter of the sort that agitates the shoulders, and shakes the diaphragm, and makes the blood tingle; than which no medicine can be more cordial to me - I have read the cause of his effects in Galen.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

William Shakespeare : [various titles]

'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a junior sophister. The "Politeia", indeed, as a gentle exercise of my mind, I am writing out in literal bald English; which I do chiefly with a view to compel myself to read Greek accurately, and not to gobble it, bones and all.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Plato : Dialogues

'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a junior sophister. The "Politeia", indeed, as a gentle exercise of my mind, I am writing out in literal bald English; which I do chiefly with a view to compel myself to read Greek accurately, and not to gobble it, bones and all.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Aristotle? : Politeia

'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a junior sophister. The "Politeia", indeed, as a gentle exercise of my mind, I am writing out in literal bald English; which I do chiefly with a view to compel myself to read Greek accurately, and not to gobble it, bones and all.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Sir Alexander Burnes : [Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus]

'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus". And, not to speak of the intrinsic merits of the work as a narrative of travel, which merits are moderate, it has become remarkable on account of events which have befallen since its publication. This Burnes was sent to those countries (in plain English) as a spy, to make observations and get intelligence which should be available to the Anglo-Indian government, in the project they had of invading, civilising, plundering, clothing in cotton, and finally subduing Lahore and Cabool.' [diary entry includes extracts from the book]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the "Blackwood's" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the "Blackwood's" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

William Shakespeare : Antony and Cleopatra

'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Aristotle? : Politeia

'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and strength to go through with it. On some days I have hardly strength to mend my pen, or strength of will to do so much as determine upon that important measure.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Thomas Keightley : History of the War of Independence in Greece

'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full enough of incident certainly; for the author seems to give different versions of the same event as so many different transactions, and he ruthlessly kills more Greeks in the course of this war than there have been in all Greece at one time since the days of Philopoemen not to speak of incredible multitudes of Turks, whom he generally slays at least thrice.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : Saturday Magazine

'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the worthy chaplain has lent me. There are six double volumes of this astounding rubbish; or more properly six strata - a huge deposit of pudding-stone, rubble, detritus and scoriae in six thick stratifications; containing great veins of fossil balderdash, and whole regions of what the Germans call "loss" and "trass"; amongst which, however, sometimes glances up a fragment of pure ore that has no business there, or a gleaming splinter of diamond illuminating the foul opacity. After an hour's digging and shovelling, I meet perhaps with an authentic piece of "noster" Thomas himself - there are two of those in the whole six beds - and once I turned up what made my heart leap - "The Forging of the Anchor" - which I straight away rolled forth till the tweak timbers rang. There are a great many not intolerable wood engravings in the volumes, and some readable topographical description: but on the whole the thing is of very base material - "Amusements in Science" - "Recreations in Religion" - no, but "Easy Lessons on Christian Evidences" - much apocryphol anecdotage of history, but, above all, abundant illustrations of British generosity, valour, humanity...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Walter Scott : Ivanhoe

'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about the fifth time) "Ivanhoe" and "The Heart of the Mid-Lothian". My blessing on the memory of Walter Scott!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

Walter Scott : The Heart of the Mid-Lothian

'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about the fifth time) "Ivanhoe" and "The Heart of the Mid-Lothian". My blessing on the memory of Walter Scott!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[uknown] : Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's History of England]

'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a "History of England". "Tait" gives copious extracts from which I easily perceive that the book is a piece of authentic Edinburgh Reviewing, declamatory in style, meagre in narrative, thoroughly corrupt in principle, as from all this man's essays on subjects of British history must have been expected.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Thomas Babington Macaulay : History of England

'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a "History of England".' 'NB: Bothwell, V.D.L. 4 August 1851 - I have read the book itself here; for, having become one of the most popular books in the world, it is even in the village library of Bothwell. Mem. - It is a clever, base, ingenious, able and shallow political pamphlet in two volumes. This writer has the rare art of colouring a whole narrative by an apparently unstudied adjective or two, and telling stories of frightful falsehoods by one of the most graceful of adverbs. What is worse, the fellow believes in no human virtue - proves Penn a pimping parasite, because he hated penal laws; and makes a sort of Bromwicham hero out of the dull Dutch Deliverer'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other things, a signal defeat of the enemy in the Punjab, at the hands of the gallant Sikhs.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : Daily News

'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its contents - political]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : Freeman's Journal

'27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most reverentially, gave me some fine language, and very probably took notes of me. NB: So they did. I have just read in the Dublin "Freeman's Journal", the account which these worthy skippers gave of their interview. Bothwell, V.D.L., 12 August 1850.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying to some inquiries about me on the 3rd of April, spoke as follows...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-convict associations within that time.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11th August. [describes political news in great detail]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : Quarterly Review

'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously, in American Art, and "Progress", and so forth - but is mainly solicitous that the Americans should - for their own sake, fo course - stay at peace. "For", says the generous reviewer, "As the future of America, to be a glorious future, must be a future of peace, so we would hope that it may be fruitful in all which embellishes and occupies and glorifies peace." - Most balmy language!'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[Duffy] : Nation

'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter loathing" of those who will say now that Ireland can win her rights by force. I thought so. The "Times" praises the new "Nation", and calls its first article "a symptom of returning sense in Ireland".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[n/a] : The Times

'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter loathing" of those who will say now that Ireland can win her rights by force. I thought so. The "Times" praises the new "Nation", and calls its first article "a symptom of returning sense in Ireland".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[Barry] : Southern Reporter

'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels with Mr Duffy for keeping the independence of Ireland before men's eyes even as an ultimate and far-distant object; he is for "putting it in abeyance", that is, dropping it altogether... These poor creatures will soon have few readers among the country people.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

Joseph Brennan (ed) : Irishman

'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the editor is Joseph Brennan. This appears to be the true representative of the old "Nation"; but they have not a proper staff of competent writers for it. The "Irishman" professes to preach the doctrines of me, J.M. If I am their prophet and guide, I am like to lead my votaries and catechumens on a cruise to the Southern Ocean...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[n/a] : Commercial Advertiser

'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation thereupon, formed part of the business of the [Anti-Convict] Association at its last meeting.' [copy of letters]

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : [Newspapers]

'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, and MacManus, in the "Swift", and Martin and O'Doherty in the "Elphinstone", all arrived at Hobart Town about the same time - that they have been allowed to live at large, but each within a limited district, [italics] and no two of them nearer than thirty or forty miles [close italics].'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : The Times [and other English newspapers]

'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - not to speak of the savage inhumanity of refusing victuals to the public services and to the poor sea-beaten convicts... I can find in these papers hardly anything relating to Ireland...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South African press...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : [newspapers]

'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate territory, about twelve miles in length... By the advertisements I see there at present no fewer than five ships at present laid on for California from the two ports, Hobart Town, south, and Launceston, north. There is now a brisk trade between Van Diemen's Land and San Francisco...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

Patrick O'Donohue (editor) : Irish Exile

'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a newspaper called the "Irish Exile", enclosing me a copy of the last number, and proposing that [italics] I should join him [close italics] in the concern. ...The thing is a hideous absurdity altogether: but I am glad to learn that none of my friends takes anything to do with it; though I suppose it assumes to be a sort of "organ" for them.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[n/a] : Colonial Times

'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "Colonial Times", a well-conducted Hobart Town paper, which warmly urged that meetings should be held, and petitions adopted by all the colonists, both of Van Diemen's Land and Australia, praying for the "pardon" of all those gentlemen known as the "Irish State Prisoners". When I saw the article this morning, I immediately wrote a short letter to the "Times", commencing thus - I suppose - it will be accounted another act of "contempt"...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

  

[n/a] : [newspaper]

'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the "Government" for their indulgence and clemency to the Irish prisoners. Now, the truth is, the exceptions which are made in our case to the ordinary treatment of real convicts, are all exceptions against [italics] us.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Newspaper

 

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