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cxceflcs ought by every pofTible mean^ to be dif- 

 couraged. But to the difgrace of our police, the 

 law which inflids penalties on drunkennefs, inftead 

 of being flridlly executed, is generally fufFered to 

 rennain a dead letter. Meanwhile, I fear it will be 

 in vain to admonifh thefe thorough-paced foakers— 

 ot attempt to deter thofe brutes in human fhape 

 from purfuing the high road to ruin ! In vain fliall 

 wc drive to convince them that a habit of drinking 

 learnt in youth, is not eafily abandoned in riper 

 years, and that a continued abufe of evert the mod 

 innocent fermented liquor, will, in the long run, 

 infallibly prove a flow, but fatal poifon! 



Article XXXIV. 



On the Poifon of Leady with Cautions to the Heads of 

 Families concerning the various unfufpe5fed Means 

 by which that irftdious enemy may find Admiffion 

 into the Human Body, 



[By the Same.] 



nine dira tormina! — HInc genae pendube, tremulaequc manus! 



Plim. 



T^O call forth latent abilities, and to promote a 



-*• generous emulation amongtt our hufl^and- 



mcn, manufadurers, and artizans, is the profefled 



obje(fl of the Bath Society, But while we thus 



endeavour 



