for their behaviour. Well,' he would say to them, 'now that you have lived in the bush, do you think the change you made was for the better? Are you sorry for what you have done?' 'Yes, sir.' And will you promise never to go away again?' 'Never, sir.' 'Go to the storekeeper, then,' the benevolent Collins would say, 'and get a suit of slops, and your week's ration, and then go to the overseer, and attend your work. I give you my pardon, but remember that I expect you will keep your promise to me.'" All this was genuine kindness, and the result was peculiarly pleasing and excellent. "I have been assured," says Mr. Holt, "that there was less crime, and much fewer faults committed among the people under Governor Collins, than in any other settlement; which I think is a clear proof that mercy and humanity are the best policy."

Another instance of the extraordinary influence of interest in the welfare of prisoners, and the exercise of kindness towards them, is found in the conduct of Mrs. Tatnall, wife of the governor of Warwick gaol. At the age of twenty-four, and on the 3rd of March 1803, she was married, and on the same day went to her husband's abode. But the wretchedness of the gaol, and the misery seen in it, made greater by the contrast with the quiet home which she had left, so filled her with despair, that on one occasion, when her husband was