246 The Prevalency of Example in Tea- drinking. 
hints, it is not my fault : but if you treat them with the refpedt 
they deferve, I will employ all my intereft to have a ftatue 
eredted to your memory, not of gold or silver, for I fancy 
we fhall want thefe metals for other purpofes, but of brass or 
marble, which will laft as long. It fhall be infcribed : 
M.DCC, LV. 
To 
the remembrance 
of the fair guardian fpirits of 
BRITAIN, 
Whofe influence and example 
abolifhed the ufe of 
a Chinese drug called 
TEA; 
the infuflon of which had been for many years drank 
in thefe realms and dominions, 
injuring the health, 
obftru dting the induftry, 
wafting the fortunes, 
and exporting the riches, 
of his majesty’s liege fubjedts : 
&c. &c. 
You may now laugh if you pleafe ; I will laugh with you, 
provided you will alfo think ferioufly upon the fubjedh If you 
pretend to any love for your country, you must think feri- 
oufly. 
