The convict ship, and England's exiles : in two parts / by Colin Arrott Browning.

  • Browning, Colin Arrott, 1791-1856.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The convict ship, and England's exiles : in two parts / by Colin Arrott Browning. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    under the Divine blessing, during my sixth voyage,—surpassing in some respects, those I experienced during the five preceding ones. My chief object in first publishing ^^ England's Exiles'' was, the hope that it might be useful to officers engaging in the service to v^hich it refers. When I entered upon my first appointment, I should have been exceedingly glad to have been furnished with such a system; and to those placed in similar circumstances, it may at least supply some useful hints. To several individuals, experienced in the Christian instruction and training of the neglected masses of our population, it has appeared that the same system is calculated to be useful, not only in convict ships, but, with suitable modifications, in emigrant ships, as well as in our country prisons and houses of correction ; perhaps also in large manufactories. We hear much in our days of the separate., solitary, and silent systems of prison discipline; but unless the Christian system be brought to bear, v/ith Divine power, on the understandings and consciences of criminals, every other system which professedly contemplates their reformation, must, to the disappointment and confusion of its projectors, prove an utter failure. If we would see an efficient system of moral discipline in ope- ration in our prisons, penitentiaries, and convict hulks, we must provide for the effectual instruc- tion of their inmates in the great facts and doc- A 2