THE

CURSE OF BRITAIN:

AN ESSAY

ON

THE EVILS, CAUSES, AND CURE

OF

INTEMPERANCE

BY THE REV. W. R. BAKER.

A NEW AND REVISED EDITION.

"All the crimes on the earth do not destroy so many of the human race,
nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."-LORD BACON.

"O madness! to think use of strongest wines,
And strongest drink, our chief support in health;

When God, with these forbidden, made choice to rear
His mighty champion, strong above compare,

Whose drink was only from the limpid brook." MILTON.

LONDON:

THOMAS WARD AND CO.,
27, PATERNOSTER ROW;

SOLD ALSO AT THE DEPOSITARY OF THE NEW BRITISH AND FOREIGN

TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, 14, TOKENHOUSE-YARD.

1840.
RK

No.......

TO

THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES,

IN

GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

This Essay

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR;

IN

THE EARNEST HOPE THAT IT MAY BE RENDERED,

BY THE

GREAT SOURCE OF TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS,

IN SOME MEASURE,

THE MEANS OF PROMOTING THE IMPORTANT OBJECT

TO WHICH

THEY ARE DEVOTED.