Jackson's Oxford Journal 8 November 1800

Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick has, for the first time introduced his fumigating lamps into the Earl Cornwallis convict ship, which dropped down from Portsmouth to Cowes some days ago, with 294 male and female convicts on board, for New South Wales. These lamps are of the greatest importance to the prisoners, as they are calculated to prevent that destruction caused by candles and other lights, of the oxygen or vital principle of the air, which is so essential to animation.