TWO VOYAGES
 
TO
 
NEW SOUTH WALES
 
AND
 
VAN DIEMEN’S LAND,
 
WITH
 
A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THAT INTERESTING COLONY:
 
INCLUDING
 
FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE STATE AND MANAGEMENT
 
OF
 
CONVICTS OF BOTH SEXES.
 
ALSO
 
REFLECTIONS ON SEDUCTION
 
AND
 
ITS GENERAL CONSEQUENCES.

“He who thinks he sees many around him, whom he esteems and loves, labouringunder a fatal error, must have a cold heart, or a most confined notion of benevolence,if he could withhold his endeavours to set them right, from an apprehension of incurringthe imputation of officiousness.”-—Wilberforce.

My late voyage in the Morley, female convict ship,having been undertaken chiefly at your instance; anaccount of it could not with propriety, in my opinion,be addressed to any person but yourself. A faithfulrelation of every circumstance connected with thevoyage has rendered occasional mention of your nameunavoidable, for which I have to entreat your indulgence.In soliciting your protection to the followingpages, I am anxious to secure for them an attentionand respect which, perhaps, their own intrinsicmerit could not justly claim: of their object feware better qualified to judge than you are, and certainlynone will feel a livelier interest in promotingit.

ivMuch of your valuable time has been devoted tothe cause of humanity; and the results of your efforts,with those of your amiable coadjutors, need noassistance from the journalist or historian to givethem durability; they live in the grateful hearts ofthose who were blest with your salutary instructions:and from the solicitude evinced by many of those unfortunatepersons, as I have often seen, to impressthis feeling on the pliant minds of their children, itis not, I think, presuming too much to say that itwill be cultivated and cherished, in distant parts ofthe world, by generations yet unborn.

To appreciate duly the benevolent and happy laboursof the Ladies’ Committee, one must havewitnessed human misery in its pitiable extremes; inall the pollution and loathsomeness of the licentiousgaol; and patiently contemplated the benign influenceof moral precept, meliorating such condition, asreflected in the melt