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 respectability to abstinence from distilled spirits affords the most honourable excuse and secure refuge for the reformation of the penitent drunkard, and for his protection against the persecutions of the moderate.

7th. The conscientious abstinence of the temperate from distilled spirits, and their discountenance of the causes and practices of intemperance, will put an effective restraint on all classes of tipplers, muddlers, and drunkards ; and the destruction of prejudices, falsehoods, and tempting practices with regard to distilled spirits will greatly diminish the consumption of all intoxicating liquors.

The Temperance Reformation is advancing steadily and with astonishing rapidity; and though it is not much above a year old in the British Isles, nearly 60,000 persons in Scotland and Ireland alone, have enrolled their names on the list of Temperance Societies, and there are already more than twenty societies in England.

ADVERTISEMENT.

One Thousand Guineas Reward -- Run away from the subscriber, within a few years, his whole estate, consisting of houses, lands. &c. They gradually and almost imperceptibly stole away, after being put hi motion by the magic art of one named Intemperance, who lived in the family. Any person who will put me in re-possession of said estate, shall be entitled to the above reward.

TOPER.

Elizabeth Town, 28th May, 1788.

N. B - All persons are cautioned to beware of said Intemperance, who, as I am informed, has established in this town one or two place of rendezvous, where numbers of the incautious are daily seduced.