Only 16 editions of "The United Irishman" had been produced when Mitchel was arrested, and the paper suppressed. Mitchel concluded his last article in "The United Irishman", from Newgate prison, entitled "A Letter to Farmers", gallant Confederates ... have marched past my prison windows to let me know that there are ten thousand fighting men in Dublin— 'felons' in heart and soul. I thank God for it. The game is afoot, at last. The liberty of Ireland may come sooner or come later, by peaceful negotiation or bloody conflict— but it is sure; and wherever between the poles I may chance to be, I will hear the crash of the down fall of the thrice-accursed British Empire."