had for some time been in
disgrace with the king, now came forward with a proposal to conquer the
English and put an end to the war, provided an army was raised on a new
plan. His offers were accepted, and he was clothed with full powers. He
was a man of talent and enterprise, and a violent enemy to foreigners.
The missionaries feared everything from his malignancy; and their fears
were but too well founded.

They had been in their comfortable hut but a few days, when Mrs. J. was
suddenly summoned before the governor, and detained by trifling pretexts
for some time, in order--as she afterwards found--to spare her the
dreadful scene that was enacted at the prison in her absence. On leaving
him she met a servant running to tell her that all the white prisoners
were carried away he knew not whither. She ran from street to street
inquiring for them, until at length she was informed they were carried
to Amarapoora. She hastened to the governor, who professed his
ignorance, but promised to send off a man to inquire their fate; and
said significantly, "You can do nothing more for your husband; _take
care of yourself_." She returned to her room, and sank down almost in
despair. This was the most insupportable day she had passed. She
resolved to go to Amarapoora; packed up some valuables in trunks to
leave with the governor; and took leave of Ava, as she supposed,
forever. She obtained a pass for herself and infant, her two Burman
girls and cook, and got on board a boat, which conveyed them within two
miles of Amarapoora. There she procured a cart, but the heat and dust,
with the fatigue of carrying her infant, almost deprived her of reason.
But on reaching the court-house, her distress was further aggravated, by
finding that she must go four miles farther to a place called
Oung-pen-la. There in an old shattered building, without a roof, under
the burning sun, sat the poor prisoners, chained two and two, and almost
in a dying condition. She prevailed on the jailer to give her a shelter
in a wretched little room half filled with grain, and in that filthy
place, without bed, chair, table, or any other comfort, she spent the
next _six months_ of wretchedness.

The account given her by Mr. Judson of his sufferings since she had seen
him was almost too dreadful to repeat. Dragged from the prison, and
stripped of their clothing, they were driven under a broiling sun, over
the hot sand and gravel until their naked feet were all one wo