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. The Lieutenant Governor visits the ship, 207. A
police magistrate and military guard sent on board, 208. Farewell
admonition, 210. Humane attention of the Lieutenant Governor to
the convicts, 238. Fifty convicts landed, 239. Lieutenant
Governor’s certificate, 240. Seven women sent on board the Morley
to be conveyed to the Factory at Parramatta on account of bad
conduct, 241. Departure from Hobart-Town, 242. The seven females
behave well, and receive encouragement, 243. Arrival at Sydney,
245. His Excellency the GOVERNOR and the Honourable COMMISSIONER
OF INQUIRY visit the Morley, and inspect the convicts, 246.
Convicts are mustered, 247. Progress of the school on board, 248.

CHAPTER IV.

MANNER OF DISPOSING OF CONVICTS.

The principal Superintendent takes charge of the prisoners, 251.
His extensive knowledge, 252. The manner in which the duties of
his office are discharged, 253. Convicts readily form connections,
254. Persons of indifferent character chosen to act as turnkeys,
256. Public-houses too numerous, 257. Convicts’ reception at the
Factory, 258. Want of order in that establishment, 259. Two women
sent back to England, being too bad to remain in the colony, 262.
Proposed marriage of a female, 264. Reduced number of
public-houses, 266. Little hope of reformation, 268. Manner of
disposing of male convicts, and their general condition, 270. Want
of regulation in the barrack, 273. Convicts purchase their liberty
from their masters, 275. Punishment, 276.

CHAPTER V.

SITUATION AND DUTIES OF THE SURGEON SUPERINTENDENT.

Government contract for the conveyance of convicts, 278. Former
manner compared with the present, 281. Difficulty of managing
convicts, 283. Surgeon Superintendent unsupported, 284. His
numerous duties, 285. Obstacles opposed to his return after
landing the convicts, 287. Character of the commanders and medical
men in convict ships, 289. The Surgeon Superintendent not allowed
a servant, 290. Liability to disagreement between him, the Master,
and military officer, 291.

CHAPTER VI.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

Proposed alteration in prisons, 294. Other opinions, 295. Moral
instruction hitherto neglected, 296. State of female prisons
further considered: possibility of reformation contended for, 299.
Behaviour of the prisoners in the colony, who went out in the
Neptune, 301. Employment recommended, 303. Check to population,
304. Proportion of males to females, 305. Unhappy connexions often
formed, 306. The assertion that women from Newgate behave worse
than those from other prisons, examined, 307. State of the rising
generation, 311. Formation of Bible and other useful Institutions,
313. Cursory view of the French revolution, 314. Early education
recommended, 316. Devotedness of Governor MACQUARIE to the welfare
of the colony, 317. Inaptitude of the Factory establishment to the
reformation of its wretched tenants, 318. Alterations suggested,
319. CONCLUSION, 320.