234 TiMEHRI. 



" Nappy," we shall match any other four men in British 

 Guiana, not excepting old Temperance of the Chronicle. 

 I am, &c.," Old Stingo. 



" Sir, — I am at this moment one of six about to sit 

 down to a comfortable breakfast at the hospitable resi- 

 dence of the owner of Church Cottage, and strange to 

 say, our united time in this country amounts to one hun- 

 dred and seventy eight years. The company are not 

 Scotchmen^ but are from different parts of the world — 

 say one Englishman^ one Irishman^ one Scotchman, one 

 Dutchman, one Laplander y and a. Son 0/ Saint Quaco. 



" Those six veterans (tough as the British oak) beg 

 to challenge the six Scotchmen to a drinking match 

 either in champagne, brandy, wine, strong ale, or in 

 their own favourite drink, Peet Reek punch ; and JOHN 

 Bull in particular will endeavour to out-do any one of 

 them in eating plum pudding and roast beef, I am, &c., 



New Temperance. 



Dr. BoNYUN, in 1848, made out some tables of mor- 

 tality of business and professional men, shewing that in 

 the four previous years, one-third of the deaths had been 

 caused by intemperance, beside which a large proportion 

 of the remainder were no doubt accelerated by excessive 

 drinking. 



Freemasons also had their dinners, as may be seen 

 from the following in the Gazette of June 26th, 1819: — 



" The Grand Festival of St. JOHN the Baptist was 

 celebrated here on Thursday evening in a manner stri6lly 

 accordant with the designation of the Lodge '* UNION," 

 indeed with the compass in one hand and square in the 

 other, arranged everything it is said, with the skill of a 

 faster ; and hospitality suggesting the introduftion 



