Mrs. Fry’s exertions, [93]. Visit to the Morley, [94]. Arrangements for a school, [95]. Religious books liberally supplied, [96]. Regulations, [98]. Crimes, [100]. Characters, [101]. Sentence, [102]. Address, [103]. Mrs. Pryor visits the convicts, [116]. Application to the Secretary of State to permit a convict’s child, above the regular age, to be embarked; which is granted, [118]. Convicts appear too familiar with the sailors, [119]. Some of the convicts behave ill, [120]. Captain Young visits the ship, [122]. Mr. Capper’s visit, [123]. Bank Solicitor gives five pounds to every woman under sentence for forged notes, [124]. The Keeper of Newgate gives half a crown to each convict from that prison, [126]. Mrs. Fry visits the ship, and admonishes the prisoners, [127]. Improved behaviour of the prisoners, [128]. Two ladies and a gentleman visit a young prisoner, to whom they give good advice, [129]. Their perilous situation after leaving the ship, [130]. Three invalid females removed by order of the Navy Board, [131]. Dispatches and sailing-orders arrive; riotous behaviour of some of the convicts, [132]. Morley sails, [133]. Arrives in the Downs, where the pilot leaves her, [134]. Boisterous weather, [135]. Address to the convicts after leaving their native country, [138]. They request permission to copy it, [156]. Death and interment of two convicts’ children, [157]. Feelings of the convicts during a violent squall, [159]. Inflammatory fever appears among the prisoners, [164]. A quarrel, [165]. Death of a convict’s child, [166]. Great improvement in a convict, produced by employment, [168]. Two old enemies become reconciled, [171]. Sailors attempt to break into the prison, [172]. They threaten to murder one of the women, [173]. Captain Brown remonstrates with them, [174]. They make another effort to communicate with the women, [175]. First prize won, [177]. Continued impropriety of the sailors, [179]. Second and third prizes won, [182]. A violent quarrel between two women, [184]. The sailors open a passage into the prison, [187]. Exertions of Captain Brown to discover and defeat their purpose, [189]. They behave with more caution, [190]. Conduct of the chief officer, [191]. Capt. Brown musters the refractory sailors, and admonishes them, [193]. Effects of keeping watch in the prison, [195]. Cooking prevented by rough weather, [196]. Conduct of the prisoners from Newgate, [198]. A letter, [199]. Injury done to the prison, [201]. A sermon read by the Rev. Mr. Reddall, [203]. A letter from the convicts, [204]. Arrival at Van Diemen’s Land, [205]. The sailors get four females out of the prison, [207]. The Lieutenant Governor visits the ship, [207]. A police magistrate and military guard sent on board, [208]. Farewell admonition, [210]. Humane attention of the Lieutenant Governor to the convicts, [238]. Fifty convicts landed, [239]. Lieutenant Governor’s certificate, [240]. Seven women sent on board the Morley to be conveyed to the Factory at Parramatta on account of bad conduct, [241]. Departure from Hobart-Town, [242]. The seven females behave well, and receive encouragement, [243]. Arrival at Sydney, [245]. His Excellency the Governor and the Honourable Commissioner of Inquiry visit the Morley, and inspect the convicts, [246]. Convicts are mustered, [247]. Progress of the school on board, [248].
CHAPTER IV.
MANNER OF DISPOSING OF CONVICTS.
The principal Superintendent takes charge of the prisoners, [251]. His extensive knowledge, [252]. The manner in which the duties of his office are discharged, [253]. Convicts readily form connections, [254]. Persons of indifferent character chosen to act as turnkeys, [256]. Public-houses too numerous, [257]. Convicts’ reception at the Factory, [258]. Want of order in that establishment, [259]. Two women sent back to England, being too bad to remain in the colony, [262]. Proposed marriage of a female, [264]. Reduced number of public-houses, [266]. Little hope of reformation, [268]. Manner of disposing of male convicts, and their general condition, [270]. Want of regulation in the barrack, [273]. Convicts purchase their liberty from their masters, [275]. Punishment, [276].
CHAPTER V.
SITUATION AND DUTIES OF THE SURGEON SUPERINTENDENT.
Government contract for the conveyance of convicts, [278]. Former manner compared with the present, [281]. Difficulty of managing convicts, [283]. Surgeon Superintendent unsupported, [284]. His numerous duties, [285]. Obstacles opposed to his return after landing the convicts, [287]. Character of the commanders and medical men in convict ships, [289]. The Surgeon Superintendent not allowed a servant, [290]. Liability to disagreement between him, the Master, and military officer, [291].
CHAPTER VI.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
Proposed alteration in prisons, [294]. Other opinions, [295]. Moral instruction hitherto neglected, [296]. State of female prisons further considered: possibility of reformation contended for, [299]. Behaviour of the prisoners in the colony, who went out in the Neptune, [301]. Employment recommended, [303]. Check to population, [304]. Proportion of males to females, [305]. Unhappy connexions often formed, [306]. The assertion that women from Newgate behave worse than those from other prisons, examined, [307]. State of the rising generation, [311]. Formation of Bible and other useful Institutions, [313]. Cursory view of the French revolution, [314]. Early education recommended, [316]. Devotedness of Governor Macquarie to the welfare of the colony, [317]. Inaptitude of the Factory establishment to the reformation of its wretched tenants, [318]. Alterations suggested, [319]. Conclusion, [320].