enjoy the
poor consolation of meeting in that miserable place. In vain I pleaded
the order of the governor for my admittance; they again harshly
repeated, 'Depart, or we will pull you out.'" The same evening all the
foreigners succeeded, by the payment of money, in being removed from the
common prison to an open shed, where Mrs. Judson was allowed to send
them food, and mats to sleep on, but for some days was not permitted to
see them.

Nothing but her own eloquent words can do justice to the transactions
that followed. We copy as before from her letter, written two years
subsequent to these events, to her brother-in-law, Dr. Judson.

"My next object was to get a petition presented to the queen, but no
person being admitted into the palace who was in disgrace with his
majesty, I sought to present it through the medium of her brother's
wife. I had visited her in better days, and received particular marks of
her favor. But now, times were altered, Mr. Judson was in prison, and I
in distress, which was a sufficient reason for giving me a cold
reception. I took a present of considerable value. She was lolling on
her carpet as I entered, with her attendants around her. I waited not
for the usual question to a suppliant, 'What do you want?' but in a
bold, earnest yet respectful manner, stated our distresses and our
wrongs, and begged her assistance. She partly raised her head, opened
the present I had brought, and coolly replied, 'Your case is not
singular; all the foreigners are treated alike.' But it _is_ singular,
said I, the teachers are Americans; they are ministers of religion, have
nothing to do with war or politics, and came to Ava in obedience to the
king's command. They have never done anything to deserve such treatment;
and is it right they should be treated thus? 'The king does as he
pleases,' said she, 'I am not the king, what can I do?' You can state
their case to the queen and obtain their release, replied I. Place
yourself in my situation--were you in America, your husband, innocent of
crime, thrown into prison, in irons, and you a solitary, unprotected
female--what would you do? With a slight degree of feeling, she said, 'I
will present your petition; come again to-morrow. I returned to the
house, with considerable hope that the speedy release of the
missionaries was at hand. But the next day, the property of Mr. Gouger,
(one of the Englishmen,) amounting to 25,000 dollars, was seized and
carried to the pa