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<p n="267">and destroys their Lives, Resides the Fatall effects it has on<lb></lb>
their Moralls and Religion, And among the Women (who<lb></lb>
seem to be almost equally infected) it has this further effect,<lb></lb>
by inflaming their bloud and stupifying their Sences to expose<lb></lb>
them an easy prey to the attacks of vilious men, And yet many<lb></lb>
of them are so blind to those dismal Consequences, that they<lb></lb>
are often seen to give it to their young Children even to such<lb></lb>
whom they carry in their Arms.</p>
<p n="268">With Regard to their Families, this permitions Liquors is still more<lb></lb>
Fatall, whilst the Husband, and perhaps his Wife also, are<lb></lb>
drinking and spending their Money in Geneva Shopps, their<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ380">Children</rs>
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are starv'd and naked at house, without bread to eat,<lb></lb>
or Clothes to put on, and either become a burden to their parishes,<lb></lb>
or being suffered to ramble about the Streets, are forced to begg,<lb></lb>
whilst they are Children, and learn, as they grow up, to pilfer<lb></lb>
and Steal, which your Comittee conceive to be one of the Cheif<lb></lb>
Causes of the vast increase of Theives and pilferers of all Kinds<lb></lb>
notwithstanding the great numbers, who have been<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
transported by Virtue of the excellent Law made for that<lb></lb>
purpose. Under this head may also be added, the Comon practice<lb></lb>
of pawning their own and childrens Heaths (which exposes<lb></lb>
them to all the extortions of pawnbrokers) and running in debt<lb></lb>
and cheating, by all the ways and means they can devise, to<lb></lb>
get money to spend in this destructive Liquor, which generally<lb></lb>
ends in the Husbands being thrown into a Goal, and his whole<lb></lb>
Family on the parish, And this your Comittee conceives, to be<lb></lb>
one of the principal Causes, of the great increase of beggars<lb></lb>
and parish poor, not withstanding the high wages now given<lb></lb>
to all sorts of Workmen and Servants.</p>
<p n="269">And lastly with regard to Trade and the publick Wellfare, the<lb></lb>
Consequences are yet more ruinous and distructive, It has<lb></lb>
been allready observed, that the constant use of strong waters,<lb></lb>
and particularly of Geneva, never fails to produce an invisible<lb></lb>
aversion to work and Labour, this by necessary<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
consequence deprives<lb></lb>
us of great numbers of usefull hands, which would other wife<lb></lb>
be imployed to the advantage of the publick, and as to those</p>
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