Van Diemen's Land temperance herald : for domestic and foreign intelligence

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Launceston, Tas. : Henry Dowling, 1845-
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No. 18 (December 1846)
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VAN DIEMEN’S LAND  

TEMPERANCE HERALD  

FOR  

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  

PUBLISHED UNDEE THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF COMMITTEE.  

It is good neither to eatjesh, nor to drink wine nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth  

or is offended or is made weak. —Rom. xiv. 21.  

No. XVIII.  

DECEMBER, 1846.  

Price 4d.  

CONTENTS  

Testimony in favour of Temperance, by J. Greaves, Esq. 265  

Itechabitism 267  

Temperance Tales—“ Well enough for the vulgar” .. 269  

Domestic News—  

Hobart Town 271  

Launceston .. .. .. 274  

Longford 274  

Perth .. .. .. .. 274  

New Norfolk .. .. .. .. 275  

Foreign—  

England—Leeds 276  

North Wales .. 277  

Amerca—New York 277  

Canada 278  

East Indies—BUrmah 278  

Jamaica—Germany—Prussia—Sweden .. 278  

Poetry—“ Who is my Brother” .. .. .. 279  

Advertisements, Notices of Meetings, &c 280  

TESTIMONY IN FAVOUR OF TEMPERANCE AND THE COLD  

WATER CURE. — BY JOHN GREAVES, ESQ.*  

Wishing to caution young men against the  

habits of intemperance, and to afford conso-  

lation and encouragement to others who may  

suffer, as have done, from dyspepsia, disease  

of the heart, and dropsy, with their conco-  

mitants, prostration of bodily strength and  

mental distress, publish the following nar-  

rative of my case.  

am in the seventy-second year of my  

age. When at school, drank, as other  

boys did, small beer at dinner and supper.  

When returned home, was allowed  

little ale, and sometimes, by way of treat,  

glass of wine; and dare say never  

refused my glass. At the age of twenty-  

one, or thereabouts, took ale, spirit and  

water, or wine, as pleased. Business led  

me into inns, and inclination into company,  

so that had early training, and the other  

common temptations to drink deep. Yet  

never did so. invariably abstained from  

drinking before dinner—l scarcely ever  

tasted neat spirit, and was never intoxicated  

but twice. The last time was at an early  

age, in party at Dublin, when com-  

pletely lost my senses. Upon finding them  

again the next morning, was so mortified  

at my folly, and so unwell, that resolved  

never to do the like again. For many years  

usually took four or five glasses of wine at  

dinner, and frequently pint, which seldom  

exceeded. took in addition glass or two  

of ale or porter, and sometimes glass of  

brandy and water at night.  

Such, confess, has been my practice as  

to drinking; and now let me state what was  

the result. find that, for the sake of  

daily stimulus, always followed and coun-  

terbalanced by depression, have purchased,  

at the cost of £3,000, days and weeks of  

misery.  

Upon calculation, cannot have spent less  

than Is. 6d. per day in drink—say ten shil-  

lings per week—this, improved at per  

cent., compound interest, for forty-four  

years, amounts to £3,000, which sum,  

have reason to believe, might have made  

of it.  

Moreover the money paid for medical  

advice, and for medicine, which was to  

large amount, should be added to the direct  

pecuniary loss. But all these combined,  

serious as they are, are trifling compefied with  

the losses have sustained in physical and  

moral sense; for who can calculate'the worth  

of health and happiness They are beyond  

all price had seldom been well long  

together; having been subject to dyspepsia,  

and fits of palpitation of the heart, which,  

as increased in years became more frequent,  

Mr. Greaves, who resides at Radford House, near Leamington, published this paper as pamphlet for gratuitous circula-  

tion. We are enabled to transfer it to our pages by his friend, Joseph Archer, Esq., Panshanger, in this >lony.—Ed T.Il.  

PART VI., VOL. If.  

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