and destroys their Lives, Resides the Fatall effects it has on
their Moralls and Religion, And among the Women (who
seem to be almost equally infected) it has this further effect,
by inflaming their bloud and stupifying their Sences to expose
them an easy prey to the attacks of vilious men, And yet many
of them are so blind to those dismal Consequences, that they
are often seen to give it to their young Children even to such
whom they carry in their Arms.

With Regard to their Families, this permitions Liquors is still more
Fatall, whilst the Husband, and perhaps his Wife also, are
drinking and spending their Money in Geneva Shopps, their
Children are starv'd and naked at house, without bread to eat,
or Clothes to put on, and either become a burden to their parishes,
or being suffered to ramble about the Streets, are forced to begg,
whilst they are Children, and learn, as they grow up, to pilfer
and Steal, which your Comittee conceive to be one of the Cheif
Causes of the vast increase of Theives and pilferers of all Kinds
notwithstanding the great numbers, who have been [..]
transported by Virtue of the excellent Law made for that
purpose. Under this head may also be added, the Comon practice
of pawning their own and childrens Heaths (which exposes
them to all the extortions of pawnbrokers) and running in debt
and cheating, by all the ways and means they can devise, to
get money to spend in this destructive Liquor, which generally
ends in the Husbands being thrown into a Goal, and his whole
Family on the parish, And this your Comittee conceives, to be
one of the principal Causes, of the great increase of beggars
and parish poor, not withstanding the high wages now given
to all sorts of Workmen and Servants.

And lastly with regard to Trade and the publick Wellfare, the
Consequences are yet more ruinous and distructive, It has
been allready observed, that the constant use of strong waters,
and particularly of Geneva, never fails to produce an invisible
aversion to work and Labour, this by necessary [..] consequence deprives
us of great numbers of usefull hands, which would other wife
be imployed to the advantage of the publick, and as to those