I dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner. At home all day and very little to do. In the afternoon about 5:30 died Mr French of this parish after a long and lingering illness, which, it’s to be doubted, was first brought on by the too frequent use of spirituous liquors and particularly gin.
If it was possible to make any estimate of the quantity he drank for several years past, I should think he could not drink less on a moderate computation than 20 gallons a year. Let me, from such instances, fly the habit of drinking and think upon the final consequence.