Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's LandReid, Thomas
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Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
Reid, Thomas
Exiles -- Australia -- New South Wales; Exiles -- Australia -- Tasmania
Governor MACQUARIE’S opinion of the voyage, 80.
Observations in the colony, 81. Departure with dispatches, 82.
Loss sustained by a hurricane, 83. Return to England,—letter to
Navy Board, 84.
CHAPTER III.
VOYAGE IN THE MORLEY.
Mrs. FRY’S exertions, 93. Visit to the Morley, 94. Arrangements
for a school, 95. Religious books liberally supplied, 96.
Regulations, 98. Crimes, 100. Characters, 101. Sentence, 102.
Address, 103. Mrs. PRYOR visits the convicts, 116. Application to
the Secretary of State to permit a convict’s child, above the
regular age, to be embarked; which is granted, 118. Convicts
appear too familiar with the sailors, 119. Some of the convicts
behave ill, 120. Captain YOUNG visits the ship, 122. Mr. CAPPER’S
visit, 123. Bank Solicitor gives five pounds to every woman under
sentence for forged notes, 124. The Keeper of Newgate gives half a
crown to each convict from that prison, 126. Mrs. FRY visits the
ship, and admonishes the prisoners, 127. Improved behaviour of the
prisoners, 128. Two ladies and a gentleman visit a young prisoner,
to whom they give good advice, 129. Their perilous situation after
leaving the ship, 130. Three invalid females removed by order of
the Navy Board, 131. Dispatches and sailing-orders arrive; riotous
behaviour of some of the convicts, 132. Morley sails, 133. Arrives
in the Downs, where the pilot leaves her, 134. Boisterous weather,
135. Address to the convicts after leaving their native country,
138. They request permission to copy it, 156. Death and interment
of two convicts’ children, 157. Feelings of the convicts during a
violent squall, 159. Inflammatory fever appears among the
prisoners, 164. A quarrel, 165. Death of a convict’s child, 166.
Great improvement in a convict, produced by employment, 168. Two
old enemies become reconciled, 171. Sailors attempt to break into
the prison, 172. They threaten to murder one of the women, 173.
Captain BROWN remonstrates with them, 174. They make another
effort to communicate with the women, 175. First prize won, 177.
Continued impropriety of the sailors, 179. Second and third prizes
won, 182. A violent quarrel between two women, 184. The sailors
open a passage into the prison, 187. Exertions of Captain BROWN to
discover and defeat their purpose, 189. They behave with more
caution, 190. Conduct of the chief officer, 191. Capt. BROWN
musters the refractory sailors, and admonishes them, 193. Effects
of keeping watch in the prison, 195. Cooking prevented by rough
weather, 196. Conduct of the prisoners from Newgate, 198. A
letter, 199. Injury done to the prison, 201. A sermon read by the
Rev. Mr. REDDALL, 203. A letter from the convicts, 204. Arrival at
Van Diemen’s Land, 205. The sailors get four females out of the
prison, 207.
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