1779. Revisited all the counties of England and Wales, and travelled into Scotland and Ireland. Acted as supervisor of the Penitentiary Houses. 1780. Printed his first Appendix. 1781. Travelled into Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Germany, and Holland. 1782. Again surveyed all the English prisons, and went into Scotland and Ireland. 1783. Visited Portugal, Spain, France, Flanders, and Holland; also Scotland and Ireland, and viewed several English prisons. 1784. Printed the second Appendix, and a new edition of the whole works. 1785.{ From the close of the first of these years to the beginning of the last, on 1786.{ his tour through Holland, France, Italy, Malta, Turkey, and Germany. 1787.{ Afterwards went to Scotland and Ireland. 1788. Revisited Ireland; and, during this and the former year, travelled over all England. 1789. Printed his work on Lazarettos, &c. Travelled through Holland, Germany, Prussia, and Livonia, to Russia, and Lesser Tartary. 1790. January 20. Died at Cherson. These long, incessant, and often repeated journeys--were they necessary, some will be tempted to ask, for the object he had in view? Surely a few instances, well reasoned on, would have been sufficient to put us on the right track for the reformation of our prisons. But it should be considered, in the first place, that Howard was teaching a people pre-eminently practical in their intellectual character, a people who require to be taught by example and precedent. The most philosophical reasoning, the most eloquent diatribe, would not have availed half so much to stir the public mind, as, on the one hand, these details which Howard threw before it, fact upon fact, unsparingly, repeatedly--details of cruelty and injustice perpetrated or permitted by our own laws; and, on the other hand, this plain statement, brought from abroad, that in Ghent, that in Amsterdam, that even in Paris, many of the evils which we suffered to remain as incurable, _were_ cured, or had never been allowed to exist. It was much to tell the citizen of London that in Flanders, and in Holland, there were prisons and bridewells that ought to put him to the blush.