What! In favor of temperance, and advocating the raising of grapes and the production of wine? Wonder if the writer is a friend of temperance. Yes, sir; and one of its earliest advocates, too.

We profess a high regard for public morals, and talk about improving the condition of the common people; yet, in typhus, which ravages England so fearfully, wine, the main remedy, is shut out from the poor while its liberal administration is necessary. Thus the people are encouraged to drink ardent spirit in consequence; but then the revenue profits.

During an extensive practice in the medical professions, of more than twenty-five years, I have frequently found it important to employ wine, and other diffusible stimulants as medicines.

President Jefferson said, No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage.

The grape is so delicious, so salutary diluting the blood, and causing it to flow easily through the veins, and there is nothing equal to it for old age. No disease of the liver, no dyspepsia, are found among those who freely eat the grape. Persons, who are sickly in grape countries, are made well when grapes are ripe, and this result is familiarly called the grape cure.