f seeing you at the accustomed
time, which we have always been taught to look for--we mean Friday
last. We are fearful that your health was the cause of our being
deprived of that heartfelt joy which your presence always diffuses
through the prison; but we hope, through the mercies of God, we
shall be able personally to return you the grateful acknowledgments
of our hearts, before we leave our country forever, for all the
past and present favors so benevolently bestowed upon what has been
termed the "most unfortunate of society," until cheered by your
benevolence, kindness and charity: and hoping that your health,
which is so dear to such a number of unfortunates, will be fully
re-established before we go, so that after our departure from our
native land, those who are so unfortunate as to fall into our
situation may enjoy the same blessing, both temporally and
spiritually, that we have done before them. And may our minds be
impressed with a due sense of the many comforts we have enjoyed
whilst under your kind protection. Honored and worthy Madam, we
hope we shall be pardoned for our presumption in addressing you at
this time, but our fears of not seeing you before the time of our
departure induce us to entreat your acceptance of our prayers for
your restoration to your family; and may the prayers and
supplications of the unfortunate prisoners ascend to Heaven for the
prolonging of that life which is so dear to the most wretched of
the English nation. Honored Madam, we beg leave to subscribe
ourselves, with humble respect, your most grateful and devoted,

THE PRISONERS OF NEWGATE.

The following letter was from a convict at Paramatta, New South Wales,
some time after her banishment to that colony:--

HONORED MADAM,--The duty I owe to you, likewise to the benevolent
society to which you have the honor to belong, compels me to take
up my pen to return you my most sincere thanks for the heavenly
instruction I derived from you, and the dear friends, during my
confinement in Newgate.

In the month of April, 1817, that blessed prayer of yours sank deep
into my heart; and as you said, so I have found it, that when no
eyes see and no ears hear, God both sees and hears, and then it was
that the arrow of conviction entered my h