66 expressed no uneasiness that Mr. Buxton had published their proceedings; they manifested no concern at Mr. Gurney's proposed publication of their labours; their only uneasiness was at the publication of the account" as coming from them;" for not only these very words, but even the italics are Mr. Gurney's. There is something so calculating, so sly, so truly quaker like in this distinction, that it calls to mind the observations which have been reported to us, of some Quaker gentlemen upon the subject of our Review of their principles; who, after expressing their perfect horror at its contents, agreed to think it would be very desirable that the same should be answered-provided the answer were one not implicating their body in the contest-provided, in fact, it were an answer not as coming from them.” Having now, as we think, brought home the case to the perfect satisfaction, we may hope, of our friend J. F., we cannot avoid noticing some of the lower manoeuvres-the lesser arts-by which this party have sought to arrest the attention, and catch the admiration of the thoughtless and the ignorant. Friend Gurney's Notes on Prisons, though a very small, was also a very dear book, and as such inaccessible to the poor; there was, therefore, issued by the party about this time, a little tract, price sixpence, entitled "AN HOUR IN NEWGATE." This little tract is, in every way, to our purpose; for not only did its contents present an artful, and but too successful an endeavour at puffing the Newgate reformers; but there was actually given in the title page, an admirably executed, and truly characteristic wood cut of Mrs. Fry and her sisterhood, exhibiting their "silent and unassuming endeavours" in Newgate, before the Sheriff of London, and a numerous company of visiters. We have been so much amused with this little cut, and it so clearly evidences the objects of the parties whom it represents, that we have engaged an eminent artist to take a copy of the same upon a scale suited to our work. at the picture, gentle reader-look at the picture! Yes! there is Mrs. Fry, and an admirable likeness it is; there is Mrs. Fry, performing her part before her Newgate auditory; and there are the likenesses of two gentlemen, who were present on the occasion, and who ought to have been present on the occasion-the one to record her piety, and the other to enforce her cant. Assuredly those whom it most concerns cannot but own themselves indebted to us, for thus contributing in their own way, to extend their celebrity. Look |