grandfather was already transported with several branches of his
family, as being coiners. The old woman's face was full of
depravity. We next crossed the airing-yard, where many persons were
industriously engaged at slop-work, for which they are paid, and
after receiving what they require, the rest is kept for them by the
Committee, who have a receipt-book, where their earning and their
expenditure may be seen at any time, by the day or week. On
entering the untried wards we found the women very different from
those we had just left. They were quarrelling and very disorderly,
neither knowing their future fate, nor anything like subordination
among one another. It resembles the state of the women on the tried
side before the formation of the Visitors' Association. Not a hand
was employed, except in mischief. One bold creature was ushered in
for committing highway robbery. Many convicts were arriving, just
remanded from the Sessions House, and their dark associates
received them with applause--such is the unhallowed friendship of
sin. We left this revolting scene and proceeded to the school-room,
situated on the untried side of the prison for want of room on the
tried. The quiet decency of this apartment was quite a relief, for
about twenty young women arose on our entrance, and stood with
their eyes cast on the ground.

Another extract from the diary of this lady will be found to describe,
in graphic terms, the visit to the prison recorded in the Corporation
minutes. As one reads the simple and truth-like story, the scene rises
before the mind's eye:--the party of gentlemen upon their semi-official
visit; the awe-stricken prisoners, scarcely comprehending whether this
visit boded ill or well to them; and the little company of quiet, godly,
unfashionable Quaker ladies, who were thus "laying hands" upon the lost
of their sex, in order to reclaim them. Such a picture might well be