be God! I find it so. I trust you do; you a greater blessing. I cannot wish "To my deep regret (and I attribute my downfall to this cause), I was not diligent in the use of all the means of grace, especially watchfulness and prayer, and have been wisely permitted to feel and to suffer the sure consequences of my own conduct. Once more,- -it may be for the last time,-let me entreat all who profess to believe in, and follow Christ, to value private and public means of grace. Though there is an inexhaustible fulness of grace and blessing treasured up in Christ for all who hunger and thirst after righteousness, yet we often, like Hagar in the wilderness, sit weeping near the well of consolation, and will not lift up our eyes to see, nor raise our hands to receive from the Fountain of Life the waters of comfort, to the joy and refreshing of our souls May you, dear, draw from Him by faith, who is the fount of every blessing, daily supplies; and the water he will give you shall be in you a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. So prays your truly affectionate, It is impossible to tell with what trying severity transportation, though rendered by Divine grace subservient to the soul's everlasting welfare, operates on all convicts, and especially upon such men as the writer of the above letter,-a letter which is calculated at once to shew the sustaining power of vital Christianity under such an overwhelming and agonising chastisement, and to warn every man and woman in Great Britain and Ireland against violating in any way the laws of the land, thus voluntarily subjecting themselves to a punishment, the nature and tendency of which so few persons seem fully to understand, but which is, in every respect, so terrible, and so likely, in ordinary circumstances, to prove disastrous to the soul, that it ought ever to be regarded with the utmost dread! INSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT. CHAPTER IX. Embarkation-First address. IMMEDIATELY after the embarkation of the prisoners, or as soon after as possible, the whole body being assembled on the quarter-deck, and the guard drawn up on the poop, the following, or some other suitable address, is delivered :— Address to the Prisoners immediately on their embarkation, and before they are permitted to quit the quarter-deck. This day commences a new era in your existence. The moment you set your feet on the decks you now occupy, you came under the operation, and I trust will speedily come under the influence, of a system which contemplates you as intellectual and moral beings; as beings who necessarily exert an incal |