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21 brothers could be made to stand as sentinels over the safety of their sisters and those that associated with them. It may be worthy here of remark that with regard to the scandalous treatment experienced by the unprotected female orphans from Dublin, and the gross indignities offered to other friendless young women on board some other vessels, that those girls who had their parents, brothers, &c. on board were not subjected to such insults, for brutality and cowardice generally go together. Friendless young lads might in like manner be placed under family protection. In the arrangements of the fitting out of the ship, I would recommend that the poop cabins should be reserved for small respectable capitalists, paying £18. each for their passage; this class might afford additional security to the rest of the passengers, and they might, like the others, take charge of respectable females who paid their own passage. This grouping of families, this system of guardianship is not with me an idea of the day, but I have been working it out on a miniature scale during the last two years, by getting emigrant families to meet at my own residence, making them acquainted with each other, and placing often under their charge single females proceeding to the Colonies. Indeed, I consider family colonization to be the only safe and respectable system by which female emigration can be carried on. There is something in any other mode that does not harmonize with a woman's feelings. I feel female pauper emigration as an insult to the women of England. A gentleman has just told me that as he was passing through one of the largest thoroughfares in London the other day, he saw placarded up on a church, "Female Emigration, inquire in the Vestry, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays." There is something in this