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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBEI

Fry. sod she heard, with many expressious of
admiration mud delight, the plant pursued, and
the good effects produced by this fellow-la.
barterer in her humbler and unostentatious sphere.
The appearance too of the women justified the re-
port she heard of them. They were clean. modest
in their looks, and respectful in their demeanour.
Several of them had so eft:tit:illy availed them.
selves of the inst. uction offered to them while in
prill4lll. that they had learned to read ; and at Mrs.
Fry's request they went thorough the 4th chapter of
the epistle to the Eistiestana in a very satisfactory
manner. Whet' they hail cretiellieled. Mrs. Fry
addressed them. with a look, mainter. sod voice.
most kind, affectionate, soothing. staid encoursg•
ing. She MI111141(41 them of the evil of sit,. as it af-
ferted both their present happiness and their future
hopes; entre lied them to mead themselves of this tem-
porary abeluctioti from the world and its temptations.
IN a season of ireuiterice ; besought them, by the Lowe
of Christ and the mercy of God, to be reconciled to
that hieing whom they had so greatly offended ; laid
before them the encouragement's which were afforded
in the Gospel to reformation sod renewed obedienoe ;
assured them of the assistance which they would ex-
perience- fr the Frther of mercies in their homble
sod sincere purposes of holiness ; and exhorted
them, above all things, not to dunk that they would
be entitled to the pryer of peinteuts, unless they
should evidence their reformation by their *mks of
piety and righteousness.
Advertin4 to the chapter which they bad read,
she dwelt upon the latter van of it us peruliarly
suited to their circumstances, and read those verses
which she wished them particularly to remember,
with comments on their ineasiiiig, which will effec-
tually prevent their being forgot. either by the pri.
bliPiler4, or any who had the privilege of beano
them. While she spoke, in her mild but persuasive
maner. the silent tears flowed freely down the
cheeks of those to whom she addressed herself ; and
at the conclusion of her very feeling observations to
them, they I ;;lit their Bibles to tier, that she
might mark, for their subsequent perusal, the pas-
sages to which she liail drawee their attention.
Gratifying as these symptoms no doubt were to
all who witnessed awn), yet Mrs. Fry knew too well
the transient statute of even the best impressions to
expect much beilefit from them, utiless they are re-
newed front time to time, and deepened till they
contort be effaced : she therefore availed herself of
the kind and generous sympathy which she saw in
the ladies around her, to suggest, that a few of them
should font. themselves into a Committee to follow
up the benevolent design which hail already been
acted upon with so much success, by the indivi-
dual, whom it would be a pleasure here to name,
did we t.ot fair to 'sound her delicacy. Fey thus
initkiog public what she has perhaps to studiously
concealed.

We have rrason to hope that. with the concur-
feller of the Magostrachand, the wor_thitChaplain
ell* riot 'hi, will fie acconinfisted, stain Pildi
a now, the jutlici,oli, rational, impressive, and of-
fectionate moole of address, adopted by AIN. Fry,
will, au doubt, he a model for their imitation,
whenever they undertake the delicate office of in.
structing the prisoners.—Before leaving this side of
the Gaol Mrs. Fry pai.l some well-deserved compli-
ments to Airs. Falun, for her valuable attention to
the wants and welfare of the unhappy beings ler
confinement ; particularly in finding wink fur them.
And litre it may with great propriety be suggested
to the public. that the difficulty of dispososig of
the work, occusiooally done in the geol. is a great
evil felt by both Mr. and Mrs. Eaton. Surely
when the importance of this subject .ball be duly
considered, the purchase of the prisoners work sill
be regarded as one of the duties of benevolence.
Leaving the apartments of the women, Mrs. Fry
visited the other parts of the gaol, said in the day-
room on the felons side was go wired to see so many
;Nov delinquents associating with older and more
practised crionistsls. The wretched inmates Writ%
collected shout her, she could not resist (though
contrary to her previous • !unity.) making such
uharrralt~ns !n them as their situation seemed to re.
quire. To them also she spoke of the heinous
nature of vice, and the etwootragements to forsake
the evil of their ways, whether its the coutempla..
Lion of their renewed intercourse with the world.
or the dreadful alternative of being (loomed to
expiate their offences on the scaffold.

To the young pointed out the progressive na-
ture of vice, from its commencement in little things,
to its aggravated character as witnersril in its termi-
nation ; front its hessig only like a cloud the size of
a nn tea until, w its coverm,g the heavens with black.
tiers. She fixed the attention of tier silent hearero,
by her recit of instances which had come inkier
her own obi/creation, of the ref►rmat of most do.
proved characters. extmplifird in the intercourses of
life. and in the awful hour of death. !laving con-
cluded her Address she took leave of them, bear-
ing away oath her their benedictions, and the grate-
ful oiltatrotiou of all those who hail taken, with her,
this walk of charity, so seldom trodden. yet
portant in the various excursions of benevolence.

PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 9.
[EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER I

Lust night arrived in Cowes Roads the American
ship Bengal, D 5 days from the Straits of Sunda:
she left lyilig its !immuring roads the ships Claudine
rod ithilulnir, fur Europe. the letter to sail about
the middle of August. The country ship Geo►-
giaaa. IVorthingtou, left Tangier for the Isle of
France and Liverpool, the '2.1 August. The
Dutch Expedition against Palembang left Batavia
315 t July, consisting of one 74 nixie, one 60-gun
ship, three frigates, nine ship-►loop., übout 100
gins-vessels, and a large proportion of flat boats, to
disembark troops—a number of British, and other
vessels. had been taken up to tran►port troops.
stores, &c. The Dutch baring betu twice before
defeated, doubts were entertained et Batavia of
their success, particularly as it rrn well-known the