The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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secretary, and seemed hardly to feel the want of slee)p;
yet he sustained the unparalleled fatigue without having
recourse to any stimulant stronger than lemonade." Napoleon's great rival, the Dztke of Twe/7!n;/e, was accus
tonled to a very careful diet, and took but little wine for
years preceding his death. The gallant General Bead was
urged at the close of life to take a little wine. "Not a
drop!" he said; there are things enough in the world
to send the blood to the head. without strong drink."
Barons Larrey, the eminent French surgeon under Napoleon, states that in the retreat from Moscow those soldiers who indulged in ardent spirits first fell victims to
the cold; and the Coozznl de Lzze/zil/e, one of the few
officers who survived, ascribed his escape to his having
drunk water and not spirits during that disastrous march.
Marshal Groitc'y ascribed his escape to his use of coffee
instead of spirits. The illustrious ltavelock took a warm
interest in the promotion of temperance among the English soldiers in India from the time when he was a captain
in the I3th Light Infantry. In his "Narrative of the War ixAfghanistan," he relates the noble conduct of the troops
engaged in the storming of Ghuznee, which he states
may in "a great degree be attributed to the fact of the
European soldiers having received no spirit ration since
the 8th of July (the place was captured on the 23d), and
having found no intoxicating liquor among the plunder
of Ghuznee. Since then it has been found that troops
can make forced marches of fifty miles, and storml a fortress in seventy-five minutes, without the aid of rum,
behaving after success with a forbearance and humanity
unparalleled in history. Let it not henceforth be argued
that distilled spirits are an indispensable portion of a
soldier's ration." Havelock continued to maintain his
temperance principles, and though in the advance upon
Cawnpore he ordered porter to be served to the troops
after an exhausting march and long fast, and in the pres
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