 Brisbane's "The Moreton Bay Courier" (reprinted from Dublin's "The Nation") found that the journal "will show how severely the tyrannical government of England visited the offences of the Ballingarry cabbage-tree heroes.The studies of Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher (afterwards O'), and O'Donoghoe, will amuse the reader".While in Van Diemen's Land, the "Launceston Examiner" reprinted London's "The Examiner"s view that "a singularly large amount of mercy has been shown to those grown-up children who made the escapade from Dublin to raise the standard of Irish rebellion at Ballingarry.