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