The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History

The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History – is a work which was published in 1898 and written by James Francis Hogan. He was an Irish history professor at University College Cork. This book is one of Hogan’s works on the Irish colonization of Australia. No single biographer within the framework of a regular book could possibly do justice to Mr. Gladstone's wonderful and multifaceted career. Statesman, orator, colonial administrator, theologian, essayist, polemicist, philanthropist, Homeric student, an interesting and instructive volume could be written about Mr. Gladstone in each of these qualities. Thus, in this book, the author has attempted to provide a complete and comprehensive overview of Mr. Gladstone's political connection with the colonies. For the first time, a complete and detailed account is given of Mr. Gladstone's most interesting experiment as Secretary of State for the Colonies, namely his attempt to create a new colony, which will be called Northern Australia, just fifty years ago. This colony did not manage to secure a permanent place on the map, but its supposed metropolis - the site of the camps of the pioneer settlers of Mr. Gladstone - was successfully founded and continues to bear the name of Mr. Gladstone to this day. This beautifully located city with its spacious harbor next to Sydney Harbor, the finest on the coast of Australia, has an unusually interesting and varied history, and now is the time to write and publish it. In a few months, Gladstone will become the terminus of the Australian transcontinental rail system. He will take a position on the Australian side of the Pacific, similar to that of Vancouver and San Francisco on the American side, and will not need the special gift of prophecy to realize that in the not too distant future he is destined to develop his future, importance and prosperity, such as in similar circumstances. , have reliably reached the terminal ports of the American transcontinental rail systems. In addition to providing a complete and accurate account of the incidents and circumstances surrounding Mr. Gladstone's efforts to found a new colony in Northern Australia, as well as a historical outline of the subsequent rise, progress and vicissitudes of Gladstone, the author devotes a little space to Mr. Gladstone's ideas on the problem of the treatment and re-education of prisoners transported from the British Isles to penal colonies - a subject that, as the Minister of Colonial Affairs, took the deepest interest in him and which was the main impetus and inspiration for the new colony he was trying to establish. As a fitting complement and to show the gradual development of Mr. Gladstone's views and ideas regarding Great Britain beyond the seas, his main and invariably interesting statements about colonial and imperial politics are given in chronological order and regularly in sequence. The author hoped that the book would thus be a complete and comprehensive, vivid and accurate account of the colonial side of the career of the greatest English statesman of the century.