'The case of Maria Manning is not one which it can be in any measure satisfactory to dwell upon ... Manning requested to see the visitor who had attended her in Newgate on the day before that fixed for her execution, and a strange contrast was exhibited by the heartless mob that thronged every avenue to the prison and the quiet demeanour of the culprit seated in her lonely cell. The Chaplain entered with the visitor, and at the prisoner's request read the fifty-first Psalm, and then engaged in prayer with deep solemnity; but on his leaving the two together, there was no attempt at confession - no evidence of repentance; and we fear we must conclude the wretched woman to have been shut up to a proud and haughty spirit, which scorned to acknowledge she merited the abhorrence her dark crime had called forth'