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comfort of the prisoners, as also to es¬ 
tablish a system of good order, decency, 
and religious conduct during the voy¬ 
age, the Surgeon Superintendent has 
drawn up the following regulations, 
which must he most strictly observed. 
1. The care and management of each 
mess shall be intrusted to a Monitor, 
who will be held responsible for any 
irregularities committed by those under 
her direction : it is expected that every 
one will behave respectfully, and be 
obedient to the Monitor of her particu¬ 
lar mess. 
2. Cursing and swearing,—obscene 
and indecent language,—fighting and 
quarrelling,—as such practices tend to 
dishonour God’s holy name, and cor¬ 
rupt good manners, will incur the dis¬ 
pleasure of the Surgeon Superintendent, 
and be visited with punishment and 
disgrace. 
3. Cleanliness being essentially ne¬ 
cessary to the health, comfort, and well¬ 
being of every person on board, it is 
desired that the most scrupulous atten¬ 
tion in this respect shall be observed 
on every occasion. 
4. The Monitors are particularly en¬ 
joined the utmost vigilance in taking 
care that nothing disorderly shall ap¬ 
pear among the members of their re¬ 
spective messes. 
5. Any one convicted of disturbing 
others whilst engaged in reading the 
holy Scriptures, or other religious ex¬ 
ercise, will incur special animadver¬ 
sion, and such misconduct will be en¬ 
tered in the journal. 
6. A proper reserve towards the 
sailors will be held indispensable, and 
all intercourse with them must be 
avoided as much as possible. 
7. A daily account will be kept, and 
a faithful report made to His Excel¬ 
lency the Governor of New South 
Wales of the conduct of each individual 
during the voyage, and those who be¬ 
have well, though they may have come 
here with bad characters, will be re¬ 
presented favourably: the Surgeon Su¬ 
perintendent pledges to use his utmost 
effort to get every one settled in a com¬ 
fortable manner whose behaviour shall 
merit such friendly interference. 
N.B. Any breach of the above regu¬ 
lations, or any attempt to deface or de¬ 
stroy this paper, will be punished 
severely; and the person so offending 
must not expect to be recommended to 
the kind notice of the Governor of New 
South Wales. 
Several of those ill-fated creatures 
had been capitally respited; twenty* 
three were sentenced to transportation 
for life ; fifty for fourteen, and forty- 
eight for seven years. 
A LIBERAL ACT. 
At 11 A.M. Mrs. Pryor and Mrs. Co¬ 
ventry, accompanied by the solicitor to 
the Bank of England, came on board. 
The Solicitor was commissioned by the 
Bank Company to make a present of five 
pounds to every woman who had been 
convicted of uttering forged notes . or 
of having them in possession. The 
amount of the money thus gratuitously 
expended iu favour of the unhappy 
women, was two hundred and five 
pounds sterling, there being forty-one 
persons at this time sent out of the 
country for that offence alone. 
This donation to the female convicts, 
—for it is not given to males in the 
same predicament,—has, I am informed, 
existed for a considerable time, and 
doubtless originated in worthy feelings, 
—to alleviate in some degree the dis¬ 
tresses and want brought upon them 
by their prosecution. 
LANDING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Four days elapsed before the wind 
became favourable for conveying the 
remaining women to Parramatta, a 
water passage of about twenty miles, 
where I took occasion to visit them at 
the Factory on the morning after their 
arrival. It would indeed be a difficult 
task to give an adequate notion of the 
miserable state in which I found them. 
They all collected around me, and for 
several minutes not one of them could 
utter a word ; but their streaming eyes 
and deep sobs sufficiently expressed the 
state of their feelings. Some of them 
gave a shocking account of the manner 
in which the last night had been spent. 
On their arrival the preceding evening 
they had not got within the Factory be¬ 
fore they were surrounded by hordes of 
idle fellows, convicts, who came pro¬ 
vided with bottles of spirits some, and 
others with provisions, for the purpose 
of forming a banquet according to cus¬ 
tom, which they assured themselves of 
enjoying without interruption, as a pre¬ 
lude to excesses w T hich decency forbids 
to mention. They calculated, it seems, 
on this security, in consequence of a 
guilty understanding between them¬ 
selves and the constables, whom they 
found little difficulty of reconciling to 
remissness on such an occasion. 
At first I was unwdlling to credit the 
account which these women gave of this 
strangeand disorderly visit of the con¬ 
victs; 
