MILLER, Linus Wilson

Notes of an Exile to Van Dieman's Land...

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Printed by W. McKinstry & Co Fredonia, New York, 1846. Octavo, original cloth, some occasional spotting; in the original blind embossed dark cloth, neatly rebacked, original gilt-lettered spine laid down, very good. Only edition and scarce: 'A most vivid and interesting account of the convict system in Tasmania from within by a political prisoner, who publishes testimonials to his upright character and reliability from Tasmanian public men' (Ferguson).

Miller was transported to Van Diemen's Land after the 1837 "Patriotic Movement" of Canadian rebels, which was quickly and easily defeated. Miller, like many of the rebels, was actually a citizen of the United States, a fact that did him few favours in Australia. Of the central figures in the uprising 29 were executed, 8 deported to Bermuda and no less than 149 to Australia. Initially removed to the Hulks on the Thames, Miller was among the second group transported to Van Diemens Land, arriving in Hobart on the Canton in January 1840. Unlike the French-Canadians who ended up in the stockade near Concord in the west of Sydney, the rebels who were transported to Van Diemens Land were more harshly treated. Miller was finally pardoned and sailed from Hobart in September 1846.

No fewer than nine individual accounts of the Canadian exiles were published; Miller's is one of the scarcest.
Ferguson, 4349.

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