. Ireland in London. where he lived during the remainder ofhis life, dying on November 18th, 1834, aged is only right to add that the French Revolu-tion, with its attendant horrors, of which ha hadbeen a witness, caused the great change in his mindwhich we have described. Turning down by Wood-street and proceedingalong by Grosve-nor-road to theRiver Thames,and skirting itsbrown current,we soon comewithin view ofMi l lbajtkPrison or Peni-tentiary. Thisprison held within its wallsfor various periods duringthe years 1866-7-8 a famousbatch of Fenian penitents,notable among them being Mulcali
. Ireland in London. where he lived during the remainder ofhis life, dying on November 18th, 1834, aged is only right to add that the French Revolu-tion, with its attendant horrors, of which ha hadbeen a witness, caused the great change in his mindwhich we have described. Turning down by Wood-street and proceedingalong by Grosve-nor-road to theRiver Thames,and skirting itsbrown current,we soon comewithin view ofMi l lbajtkPrison or Peni-tentiary. Thisprison held within its wallsfor various periods duringthe years 1866-7-8 a famousbatch of Fenian penitents,notable among them being Mulcaliy, Rossa,Costello, Richard Burke, John Devoy, StephenJoseph Meaney, Edward Duffy, and XavierOBrien. ODonovan Rossa, who was imprisoned here fortwelve months and two days, gives in his IrishRebels in English Prisons a graphic account ofhis prison life and of the treatment to which hewas subjected—treatment which goes far to explainhis subsequent notorious and virulent animosityagainst England and all things EDWARD DUFFS. He was Ireland in London. 77 subjected, without chance of redress, to the mostpersistent and mean annoyances at the hands ofwarders, was gradually deprived of every ordinaryprivilege, stripped naked and submitted to anignominious search several times a day, for weekstogether, punished for not obeying contradictoryorders, for doing his work too soon, or for resent-ing insolence; and persecuted, in fact, in everyway possible. Although he came to Millbankfrom Portland. Prison a mere skeleton, with theflesh rotting off his hands, he was put on starvation<liet for petty breaches of discipline. He was thelast thirty-two days in Millbank on bread andwater (one of these days being Christmas Day),and 158 days on penal class diet in a darkened the most degrading punishmentinflicted on him in this prison (for he was des-tined to receive worse later on at Chatham) was hisbeing immured two days and nights in an under-ground cell, destitute of mean
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