whom she now addressed, were the next week to be transported to Botany Bay. With increasing earnestness she recapitulated the instructions given during their previous intercourse, which must now never more be renewed. She exhorted them to an exemplary deportment during the long voyage that was before. them; to convince all with whom they should in future associate, that their teaching had not been in vain; to bear with patience the evils, and discharge with fidelity their duties, in a foreign land; fortifying their good resolutions by every hope drawn from this life and the next. Surely the spirit of that Master was with her, who wrote with his finger upon the ground, effacing the accuser's threat, and sparing to condemn the sinful soul, abashed at its own guilt. Nor were her appeals in vain. Sobs and moans, on every side, attested that hardened natures were becoming as wax before the flame. The stony-hearted and the fiery-eyed seemed ready to change, like Niobe, into a fountain of tears. A stronger contrast could scarcely be imagined, than the appearance of the audience at her entrance and her departure. May the hallowed counsels of their benefactress go with them over the far waters, and be to them, in the land of their banishment, as a voice turning many to righteousness.
After our departure from this scene, and during a drive in her own carriage, Mrs Fry inquired of me much respecting American prisons, and expressed great interest in the results of those systems of dis-
