TRANSLATION.

"The Society of St. Petersburg, for the improvement of Prisons, have raised this monument to the Memory of their beloved co-labourer, WALTER VENNING, co-patriot of Howard, and founder of the Prison Institutions of this country. He was born in November, 1781, and died in the Lord Jesus Christ, on the 10th of January, 1821.

The annexed engraving is an exact resemblance of the Monument.

It is probable that most of the readers of this little volume may have no monumental pillar raised over their sleeping dust, but every faithful servant of Christ will have that which is infinitely better the approbation of The Eternal: and will unite with angels, and archangels, and all the glorious company of heaven in ascribing glory and honour, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and power, and might unto Him that sitteth on the throne, and to the Lamb for ever. Amen.