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New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 543, 28 June 1851, Page 2

younger females formed a ciicle a'tween docks, and sung two nieiry songs — ''The Gay Cavalier," and a parody on it called "The Cay Coulheaver." fllis. Dyei said the songs were objectionable, and 100 masculine, and c.dled on the .Doctor to punish the delinquents. The Doctor enquiied who led (.ho song? Mis. Dyer said that it was Ann Woodliouse. Fanny ISanacluir came fonvaid, like a generous-minded a;iil, and said not to charge any young woman fdsely — that if thsre was anything offensive in tho song it was slio who sung it. The Doctor then oidoicd the Captain to »ag Kanny. He instantly did so, and in so violent a'j mannei, that when the gag was removed she fainted; and the other giils weio so shocked at the cruelty of the tieatment she loceived, that many of us were seized with sudden and sennits illness. Now Sir, we a«.k the public if a helpless and unpro- J teeted young gnl deserved such usage for a thoughtless breach ol discipline m struggling fora dunk of water under such cncumstinces, — or for singing a frivolous but harmless song, at a time when, comparatively speaking, we weie entering another world, and in all likelihood, bidding adieu for ever loall our relations and old fi iends, and to the very half of the globe from which we diew out existence. And we also appeal to that public amongst whom tho majority of us, in all probability, will spend the remainder of our lives, whetliei it was not uncliaiitable of the Editor of any public newspaper to stigmatize our characters generally, and hold us all up to public view as only deaeiving to be treated as convicts, and that too only upon the one-sided testimony of the Captain or Doctor's log, the latter of which, as appeared in the court, was not very impartially kept. We wonder if tins Editor had evei a daughter of Ins own — if he has, « c only ti ust that she may be always scieened from such treatment as we have lately been subjected to. Hoping that you will pardon us for what may appear a forwaidness on our part in addressing tin* letter to you, and ti listing that the good people of this place will not condemn us on account of what has been so unfeelingly but groundlessly laid to our charge, wo beg to subscube ourselves (on our own behalf and that i of others of the young women who have not had an opportunity ol signing our letter), Your most obedient humble seivants: Fif/AiiLiii A. Gmaqvl, Saiiaii Bevan, Sarah A. Win 1 noun, jMadoaiilt Connolly, lUaryanni. Wiitir, IMary Ginnihy, Ann Woomiovsu, Caiihiunl Sutt.ivan, Ei iza I'm si on, Elizaisi-iii A. Davis.