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number, and of rare occurrence. As it is imprac- 

 ticable to prevent fuch excefTes altogether, I would 

 wifh to fuggeft, that, if they muft take place, malt 

 liquor is found by experience to be much lefs inju- 

 rious to the health and constitution than diftilled 

 fpirits, however diluted with water. I have been 

 informed that a principle of ceconomy has induced 

 many farmers to treat their fervants, and thofe with 

 whom they are connected, with fpirits and water, 

 inftead of malt liquor ; but fuch a practice is by all 

 means to be difcouraged, as fpirits are much more 

 inflammatory than malt drinks, and produce more 

 readily obfhuctions and inflammatory diforders, 

 efpecially of the liver and mefentery. The tempo- 

 rary delirium of intoxication that they produce, is 

 faid to be much more violent and outrageous, and 

 of courfe more dangerous, than what follows from 

 taking too large a quantity of malt liquor. The 

 deftructive effects of fpirituous liquors were fo ob- 

 fervable fome years ago, as to produce the mod 

 ferious apprehenfions in a national view, and to at- 

 tract the notice of the legiflature. — The baptifms 

 of London alone are faid to have been reduced 

 from twenty thoufand annually to fourteen thou- 

 fand, which was with reafon afcribed to the ufe of 

 this pernicious beverage: — This fact is equivalent 



to a thoufand arguments ! On this fubject I 



would 



