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’ ;"the London. pow." as “ establishing and. to use a common

Quebec, St. John's and truth, investigating phrase, shewing men " fie. Would he imply. that such is not the case In glass Edward Island l that trutlt is relinquished, and that lb

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files colours, have been circulated to delude the public? * ms“, is a grave accusation, armed with the poison- eesarrow ofinsinustion, against the characters of some Is this consistent with the part this gentle- .en would assume? Beware, " W. 8,,” lest, in attack- ofa party, that which you have so will hear strict investigation; he- iu attacking, you- oblige us to defend our- selves. Disappointment to us will not make retaliation sweet; but bear in mind, that the softest particles, when brought into collision, can be made to sparkle. In what- ity you may stand, as dupo, under-snapper, volunteer or hireling, be cautious to have facts ready, to e our future assertions.

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Iity ashe doesthat of an individual; for, in fullou'i'“; up his letter. he concludes that we are rebels, because we employ—mind. Mr. Editor—a man, judged and con- donned by him alone. because we allow that man £l50 annual. and have refusedphe addition of £t000 ster-

and have voted a congratulatory Address to our youthful Queen. Is it , because we allow one individual £150 a-year, that we at £l000 sterling additional to the Governor’s This argument is like the general tenor ofthis worthy's letter, both futile and false; yet, Sir, this com- ;plimentary gentleman adduces this as an invective against the House of Assembly, for refusing to entail an addi— tioual expense on this already impoverished country. “ W. 8." must be aware, that the salary of the Gover- nor is larger, in proportion to the revenue, than those of theGovernors of the other Colonies; still he would wish £1000 l-year more to be expended for the maintenance of the Governor’s dignity. some member to brin in a Bill, for the House to pass, rendering any indivi ual liable to be sued, to recover damages, who should dare impugn the dignity of this or any other Governor of Prince Edward Island, rather than be guilty of such an extravagance. th'l “ argumentative little gentleman" whether the dif- ference between One or Two thousand Pounds will maintain the dignity or moral influence of any man, either as a public or a private character! tor, it will be his thoughts, words and deeds; as the for- met. his well:bestowcd patronage, his measures and his government; but should these not reflect credit on him, all the riches in'thu world will not make his character dignified. “ W. S.” terminates by quoting the words of Lord Brougham, thanking God that there still existed a House ofIsords; so thank I the Lord, that the old pro- ,. verb of “ what’s in print is not always true,” still re- ‘ mains correct and undenied.

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Sta; In reference to the Stanzas which have appeared in slate number of the Royal Gazrlfe, touching the “ memorable Wood Island expedition,” the gentleman to whom these elegant lines are meant to apply has much cause of gratitude to the Omniscieut, that the maguanimous and immaculate writer is not privy to all his misfortunes or his failings; otherwise he wnultl, doubt- less, have manifested the same liberal Spirit in making them known, for the edification ofthe public. He might, however, have well spared himselfthe trouble of his foot- note, to most people in this quarter were beforehand suficiently acquainted with the circumstance which he is at such laudable pains to explain. have been sadly at fault, when he was obliged to descend tosuch low personalities; and, truly, that must be a bad cause, which requires the aid of such wretched arou- nentsjor its support. °

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“The night is passed, and the day is at hand; let ut, therefore, cast ofl‘ he works of darkness, and put on the armour of light. Let us walk My.” inthe day, not in rioting and druiskemrrs:."—ST. PAUL.

" If a fellowia too lazy to work, he sticks his name over his door, and cells it a tavern; and, in nine cases not often, he makes the whole neigh- Wuflle uncles worthless as himself!”—Sal SLICK.

SII ;——Having lately seen the rapid progress that Temperance Societies have made throughout the Island, I deem it a duty I owe to my fellowcitizens, to throw what light I can on a subject that involves so much of the well-being of Society. And though it is a subject that has already engaged the ablest pens, and on which the moat touching eloquence of the philanthrOpist has been employed, yet, it"is a theme that is far from beino exhausted; 'and as the matter is comparatively noveal among us, and as the generality ofyour re ders may not have access to those sources of information to which I allude, I hope the remarks ofrme who has seen and y not be unacceptable to many how humble soevcr may be his abilities

that we may It is ac-

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is prepared those nonrishing jurces that en‘hbltiqlg’: 5130:: to supply the natural waste of the bOdl- ’mnd evident, thItJn! 'hlng "If?" lmo "' lhmfloes '10:" ,0 to promote .this wise provision ofnature, Is 907153:l syn _ the design ofour Creator; {Ind when it recelve I 9 con. stance that, instead of nourishing the body. on l ' {Pro- trary, tends to defeat thecall-tvtse arrangement 0]) ho]

vidence, it' is obviously sinful-jand .such is a co h ; however small the quantity. l‘mw, It IS Willem! ll:

if ",5 may“ be polluted, so Will the stream; and {to of us that has had the misfortune to take ardent 5pm 7 at any time to excess, but knows: that this impoflflgs organ is the first that suffers by ll. Its terrder‘coalma

become irritated-hence; rt rerSes to receive “5 custo- mary alintent; an overflow of bile is the consequence-— nausea ensues; and from the sympathy between We stomach and the brain, and consequently with the nerves, a general debility, head-ache, dolor tremens, wakefulness, disturbed imagination, tvtth numerous other evils, follow, as the natural consequence: It IS: in $5- tablisbed fact, that alcohol no more unites wrth tJe blood, in the manner of nutritive alrments, than Wale" does with oil or mercury; but that it is carried offby perspiration, and other evacuations, that expel what is injurious to the health of the subject; "0" '5 he 9"" free from its deleteroius effects, until the last partlcle has exuded from the pores of the body. I advance no- thing here but what is dictated by reason and expert- ence, without appealing to Holy Writ. '

We shall next consider the pecuniary loss occastoned by drinking ardent, spirits. Besides the time_actua.lly wasted, while attending the unhallowed orgles 0f: l"- temperance, there is the money to be paid for It, \l‘thh. at the present exorbitant price at which liquors are sold, amounts to a very considerable sum annually, even when what is termed moderate drinking only has been In- dulged in. And for what purpose is this waste offline and money ’! Solely, by gratifying a depraved and vitiated appetite, to disqualify the besotted victim of m- temperance from pursuing any laudable or useful avoca- lion, so long as he continues under its baneful Influ- ence. And mark the evils which follow in its train, like cause and effect, and as closely connected as the links of a chain. Duties to God and society neglected— tvires and families left to pine in misery and wretched- ness—the labour necessary for their maintenance either wholly abandoned, or performed as an almost insur- mountable task—the wreck of property that remains sacrificed to satisfy the demands ofthe insatiate and ruthless grog-srllcr—the natural order of society re- versed—the ties ofalfection rent asunder—the bonds of sacred friendship dissolved, or suffered only to exist in name, while sippingthe maddening draught—a phantom that vanishes before the first gust of passion, raised by the cursed stimulus that first formed it—a friendship often extinguished in the blood of one ofthe inebriates l How often have many of us spent the “ mid-night oil ” while around the festive board, listening to the voice of hilarity and mirth, and in the delirium ofpleasure, in ' which sober reason was lulled to sleep, we imagined our friendships more closely cemented; ya. that our very souls were united with those whom, before, we but merely esteemed. But the morning sunhin dissipating the fumes of liquor, dissolves also those waking dreams --dispels the ideal visions which, the night before, ab? sorbed our whole being. Willi how many bitter regrets are many such nights succeeded on the folywing morn- ingsl How many promises must be vio ated, or per- formed at a serious loss! How many secrets are divul- ged, which else had remained locked up in'the recesses of the heart! I only speak of the convivial parties of the better orders of society. , '*

Now, let us take a view of those receptacles of vice, nick-named “ lnvcrns," licensed by Government, to retail what they are pleased to call Spirituous Liquors. Can any accurate observer, in his sober senses, who has had occasion to stop at them, say that, in nine cases out of ten, they are not a public nuisance—that to en- courage them, is not a fraud practised on the commu- nity? The ostensible object of a tavern is to afford proper accommodation 'to the traveller. Is this the case with a large majority of our taverns? Far from it. The. applicant for a tavern license finds a pair ofpliant magistrates, who, on inspecting a couple of beds (one of which is often borrowed for the occasion, and the‘ other. that of “ mine host"), grant the necessary cer- tificate—a licence is obtained—a puncheoti of some adulterated trash is procured—and our landlord opens, forthwith, his school of vice in legulfiirm, and, in Sam Slick's phrase, makes such of his visitors as honour him with their custom, as idle and as worthless as him- self,” save and except those whom his deadly droughts poison outright, or who fall victims to the t'nclcntcncy of our rigid winters, or some other equally fatal casu- alty. Am. I delineating an ideal scene? Alas! the fearful reality 18 but too true; and every returning year adds a fresh manicure to the long, dark registry Ofthe hapless Victims of tntemperancell Shame on those who, by their purse and presence, countenance the Infernal traffic! With heartfelt sorrow I confess, I, too, have been a liberal contributor to it. How many dawning talents, fitted to ornam‘ent society, have been doomed to set for ever, ere they attained their meridian splendour, m the sombre gloom of those unhallowed caverns! How many bereaved widows and orphans may Justly call down the vengeance ofheaven onthe guilty heads of some of those keepers of licensed and unlicensed [tells l—and their cry is generally heard, for the drunkard’s fate often awaits them and their families; and the pangs ofa guilty conscience, soon or late, will

ofhuman blood and widow’s tears,) very bitter. ,To have a practical illustration of the evils of intem-

ship commanded by a tippling captain, and manned by a drunken and insubordinate crew ; the roaring break- ers close beneath your lee; your tattered and abandon- ed bark hastening, with every succeeding wave to certain destruction. Then contrast this with a. sdher captain and a temperate, obedient crew, and you will set a Jllsl value on the blessings of temperance. How

surface with mangled corses and the merchants’ hopes have been occastoncd by inebriatton l The melanchol’

:rltul'tohngcles of such disasters bear a fearful record of this

. We are told that the spread of tent ra

myure the Revenue. All governmentsplatavl'tlflllbe‘t’evri’[iiii strtuted for the goodofsociety; and that government that cannot subsist, except at the price Ofthe peo le’s degradation, ts worse than no government. I bar: no inclination here to allude to the present mede of ex- pending the pubhc money; but Would it not be more patriotic to tax the people in a direct way to the amount necessary to meet It Just public expenditure than to sanction by law the importation and sale of’a worse

prrance.

render the acquisition of their ill-gotten gains, (the price

parance, imagine yourself at sea in a tempest; your

many of those wrecks, that have strewed the ocean’s;

than the most extravagant

their purse, ten limeslénozey ' annual expenditure mm lled to announce to errmg

Render, have you [fefffe c(airlespell Take to-the home!

his owliliowledge of the efficacy. or

in studying the connection and all the delicate an

who so ill defends _ weary years in acquiring a the [Valeria Merlwa, and

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' the nerves, fine“ ' arl'ments helmet?" or the human frame, and the . k- w mlnule organs “ms, Take to dram-dun 11,,

at deranoe their four: I . . gird you will find few patients willp {his of their health to one so prodtga 0 IV and your 00“- belona to the senate? Drink large}, Beehes instead stitueiits will receive frothy vapourlng sipt thouéhts ab- of wholesome laws. Are your .rmrlnlg g. I feel of ‘ rbed by mercantile speculations? Drmt r.” Ymn '° enable your clerk to c use your a I i tor of the so" the

‘Profit and Loss. Are you a cu trva. I, er liirsbund of a contented and happy Wife, atnt‘lhtehet:::l‘ln’ or afhnpefu" growmg f"am‘lrltyflburli‘srliai‘ifigeltlzrop loftborns and-you will soon perceive waved its

'5 es where the ripening corn once ' :2lloiiruhliad. Instead of the cheerful bearlhrthgtiscw): wont to greet your return, you. Will percctlve a let and solate, sorrowing wifje,]_mpurnmg hgir‘zp :56“ (hing,

er he lecte Itte ones. '

hl‘illtiitfrnd willinut, and you behold the evrdent mark:l of neolect and desolation: the stock that once grace

a “ I ' d our dairy With plenty, your [)ilaltII’ES, and supplle y H ‘ our sold, one after another, to pay the grog-5e ler,]yl of mortgaged form will soon pass into the lasts ‘ another; and your helpless family he‘scattered at. out o serve as menials for a miserable subsrstence, while yet; are fast hastening to a premature “grave, unpitted an unwept, leaving the once cheering companion of‘your bosom to drag on a few more sorrowful years in misery and neglect. Such are some of the fruits of Intem-

lg to/submit the care own. Do you

SOPHBOSUNE. Georgetown, April lst, 1841. ,

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To THE EDITOR OF THE COLONIAL HERALD.

Sir; Reading the Eighteenth Chapter of the_lst Book ofSamuel—wherein is an account of gentle maidens res- ponding to each other, in their songs, the praises of two great warriors—I Was led to meditate on the miseries of desolatiug war, and sigh for the commencement and consummation of that long longed’ofor, blissful period of general, confirmed, durable peace, predicted in the Secorfll and Eleventh Chapters of Isaiah. From contemplating a less, transition to the con‘stde- ration of a greater, evil was natural and easy; and all the horrors of Internperance stood before me, in awful, direful, dreadful, disgustful array; when there intruded into my mind the following meagre lines; and I involun- tarily exclaimed—“ Happy, thrice happy Teetotalers l”

Though thousands fell by cruel Saul,

Ten thousands by the shepherd boy, There is a tyrant worse than all; And rub! it gives my soul no joy

To tell how cursed Satanic Rum has sent Her millions into hopeless banishment, , With kindred spirits in the gnlfto lave, Ofsud perdition, midst the blazing wave: Then slay this sin, and cheerfully engage To take the pledge, and stay Heaven‘s righteous rage; - For who can dwell with everlasting burnings! And qual’l'tbo beverage oftheir own earnings!

Yours, L.

0? Would it not aid the cause of Temperance, were medals struck off, with suitable inscriptions, and given to any persons who, on taking the pledge, might desire them, at costs and charges, and a small advance, to aid the cause? These might be worn suspended on the I bosom, or hung up in the sitting-room, as constant mo- nitors of the important obligations of the pledged.

Dr. Cheyne, a [very celebratedphysician, who prac- ' tised about the close of the seventeenth century, states, in his Treatise on preserving Health and prolonging Life, that, although some recommend to break-off habits of uttemperauce gradually, there is no danger in abandon- ing the alcoholic poison at once, and illustrates his Idea, by asking whether a person fallen into the fire would desire to lie there for fear of too sudden a removal.

rable quantities of ardent spirits must cause a great change in a person’s general habit, it appears stranoe that no directions have been given, by any tenlperaute‘ medical man, as to the best. mode in which the recently lutemperate may conduct their general diet, &c., and particularly for those who, having passer] the meridian of life, are fast descending into the vale of years, which,

very comm-only, is only another name for the “ valley of weeping.”

[FOR THE COLONIAL HERALD.]i

T0 HYLAX.

(In last Tuesday's Gaze.‘te.) 0b! who is he that pours out sic abuse Upon a Member ufour Senate House, That be refused on good roast beefto dine Or why a cup u',C. Fitz Roy’s good wine? There‘s many a sturdy, staunch auld fart-ant chiel Been fed on brose, and porridge 0’ oatmeal;

brlosnphers do sometimes live on scanty grub .togenes himself, be long liv’d in a tub. ’

Sic men as these will seldom tak abribe Unllke the grasping hireling lawyer tribb. If Sawney lost his teeth, sue-bonny white He lost the power but not the will to bite; Though toothless he, L—d keep my crooked thumbs When he a 1n wrath, line out attveen his gums." ' The day may come, but oh! it will be sad. To sup his porridge Hanx will be glad ’I And like an aged hound, lick out a cog r And rue the day he signed} h'i'mselfa d'o’g.

April 16, 184i. 0-

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TESTIMONY OF THE Savory A-ND‘ Ex

onoEnLhABSEINPENCE.—ML Thom-as- P‘urdr‘ififLabszrnZ: no mo ' ‘ '

writes :_ n emtenttary, in the United States, thus

.“ After an experience of twefit Richmond Penitentiary, d 20,000 persons were com proportion of whom were ofone solitary instance of being at once cut ofl‘from The contrary is the fact In health from being drib

‘ y years, as governor of uring which period at least mttted to the prison, a great for drunkenness, I never knew an individual suffering from any thing stronger than milk. that they invariably improve

Fthan useless drug, that taxes

their health, their time and L

erred the use of any into'xi.

eating liquor.”

300 g 350 gallons Old Jamaica Spirits, v

300 lbs. Coffee, fresh Cuba. 800 lbs. Fresh Carolina Rice, 150 lbs. fresh Zante burrnnts.

500 lbs. Candles—Moulds, short ii

But, as the sudden abstaining from the use of conside- .