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nality; and some malignant persons 
accused him of having interwoven 
into his own volumes the compositions 
of ether writers of the day. This very 
difference of sentiment, however, is 
sufficient to demonstrate that his Fables 
were matter of general notoriety and 
discussion,—a fact which might, in- 
deed, be inferred from the frequent 
appeals made by the author to his 
readers, as well as from the cenfident 
hope which he often expresses of 
passing with honour and reputation to 
posterity. 
In modern times, the favourable 
judgment of the Fables of Phadrus 
has been almost universal, among 
those best qualified to form a correct 
decision on the subject. Scriverius 
is diffuse in his eulogium, both upon 
the plan and execution of his work; 
and Tanaquil Faber ranks him next to 
Terence, for sweetness and simplicity 
of diction. His Latinity is eminently 
pure, and his style peculiarly neat and 
elegant, bearing evidence of a writer 
from his early years embued and fami- 
liarised with the beauties of the lan- 
guage in which he wrote. His moral 
character is entitled to every praise: 
he appears invariably the staunch 
defender and unshrinking advocate 
of virtue; and his prudence, in the 
midst of his satirical allusions, was, as 
we have already remarked, very con- 
spicuous, though insufficient to shicld 
him from the enmity of the vicious and 
powerful in the depraved period at 
which he lived. 
Among the best editions of Phaedrus 
may be mentioned, those of Hoog- 
straten, 410. Amst. 1701; and of 
Burman, 4to. Leyden, 1727. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
NOTES on @ VOYAGE in the HINDOSTAN 
CONVICT-SHIP (0 NEW SOUTH WALES 
tn 1821, 
(Continued from our last Volume.) 
O give a better idea of their ma- 
nagement, the usual routine of a 
-day duying the passage, within the 
tropics, may be mentioned. About 
Voyage in a Convict-Ship to New South Wales. 
15 
this meal is half an hour, or three 
quarters, according to circumstances. 
When finished, they are again ordered 
to the booms, while the main process 
of the purification of the prison begins, 
by scrubbing, swabbing, washing, and 
additional ventilation, with the further 
comfort in moist weather, or when the 
decks are thoroughly washed, of a 
large stove, which, by means of an 
extensive range of iron funnel, carries 
the heat into every corner. Every 
day is the same assiduous cleanliness 
practised, except that the stove is not 
so often wanted. At twelve o’clock 
they descend again from the booms to 
dinner, and remain till one, when they 
resume their station as belore on the 
booms, and continue till four, five, and 
six, o’clock, when they re-descend for 
the night, till the return of morning 
calls for the same course of humane 
superintendance. Thus they are in 
the open air during the whole'of the 
day whenever the weather permits; 
while the prison, by being kept empty, 
becomes cool, is preserved perfectly 
clean, and has a pure atmosphere to 
receive them at night. The latter is 
an essential benefit, the full effecis of 
which are not so much known in our 
shipping as they ought. Men-of-war, 
indeed, commonly know and practise 
the plan of keeping the ’tween-decks, 
where the crew sleep, clear of incum- 
brance in the day-time ; but even with 
them the custom is not universal. To 
many of the convicts, this constant 
airing was an exercise with which they 
would gladly have dispensed. Some, 
indeed, considered it a punishment. 
Indolent from nature and from habit, 
they would not perhaps have stirred 
once in a week from the prison, had 
they not been compelled to do so; and 
many would feign excuses in order to 
accomplish their own scheme of com- 
fort and ease. Many of these unhappy 
people care not for their lives, and 
others cannot understand the true na- 
ture of the precautions taken to pre- 
serve them. 
It may be imagined by many, that 
_ six q@clock in the morning they were 
» roused from bed, sometimes a little 
it after, and, their bed-clothes being 
a rolled up, the greater part went on 
deck to their usual rendezvous on the 
it was running considerable risk to 
admit them all on deck at once; but, 
with very moderate precaution, there 
is no cause whatever for apprehension, 
The quarter-deck, where the, officers 
booms, that is, the space between the 
main and fore masts; while others put 
‘the place in order for breakfast, at 
which they all assembled precisely at 
eight o’clock, The time allowed for 
remain, is separated from the waist, or 
booms, by a very strong barricade, five 
feet high, with a thick netting, extend- 
ing two feet higher, on the top of it. 
A door on each side, through the bul- 
‘ wark, 
