Ten years in exile : comprising a true and faithful narrative of my illegal arrest, imprisonment, trial, condemnation, and exile without judge, or jury, justice or law, together with eighty-two American citizens: who, with myself were tried at Kingston and London, Upper Canada, for rebellion and tra

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Ten years in exile : comprising a true and faithful narrative of my illegal arrest, imprisonment, trial, condemnation, and exile without judge, or jury, justice or law, together with eighty-two American citizens: who, with myself were tried at Kingston and London, Upper Canada, for rebellion and transported to Van Dieman's Land in December 1838, also, a minute and graphic description of our eleven months in Upper Canada, and four months of horrible suffering in a transport ship on the ocean: With a strict and impartial history of our cruel and unparalleled treatment during six years of of the most unmitigated cruelty, barbarity, insult, oppression, and abuse on that forlorn and detestable prison island, and concluding with a concise account of my visit to Australia for the purpose of procuring funds to return to my native land, giving an account of the islands and their inhabitants 'Give me libery or give me death" / by William Gates. ca. 1849.

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