Prospectus: To preach the doctrine of 'Convict
Mitchel.' This journal was suppressed, as were The Nation and Irish Tribune. A
first issue editorial was addressed "To the Englishman calling himself
George William Frederick, Earl of Clorendon, Her Majesty's chief legal murderer
and jury-packer general of Ireland."
The paper was a response to John Mitchel's
imprisonment and a continuation of his paper's anti-British stance, but [Proprietor] John Martin
was soon arrested and subsequently sentenced (in August 1848) to ten years in
Van Diemen's Land. While there, he shared a cottage with Mitchel. Pardoned in
1854, he eventually returned to Ireland to become the first Home Rule MP.
(Barker, Martin, John (1812-1875), in DNB).
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