THE LONDON TEE-TOTAL MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MISCELLANY. "Take, if ye can, ye careless and supine, COWPER. LONDON: GEORGE WIGHTMAN, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW; SOLD BY THE NEW BRITISH AND FOREIGN TEMPERANCÈ SOCIETY, BULL HEAD COURT, NEW GATE STREET; AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. MDCCCXL. PREFACE. In bringing our labours to a close, and presenting our work in a complete form to the Temperance Public, we feel it a duty to address a few words of acknowledgment and explanation to our Correspondents and Readers. We are truly grateful for that measure of support and encouragement which has been afforded us in our arduous undertaking. Sufficient sympathy with our struggles into literary existence-approbation of "the even tenour of our way"—and evidences of our usefulness in the great cause to which we have devoted ourselves, have been manifested, to reward us for our mental toils, and console us for those disappointments, to which the best conceived, and most honestly executed, plans are alike liable. All persons acquainted with literary undertakings must be aware, that our work, humble as it is, was a very considerable effort in Temperance Literature for an individual to make, unsustained, though, certainly, not wholly unassisted, by a society. Indeed, so great has been the expence incurred, that though the most disinterested spirit has been manifested by the regular contributors to this Magazine, the proprietor is compelled, after a great pecuniary loss, reluctantly to bring this periodical to a close (as a distinct work) with this, the first volume. It is, however, highly gratifying, to all parties concerned in this work, to know, that they have been pioneers in a path of usefulness, and that some liberal friends of the New British and Foreign Temperance Society intend, with the New Year, to bring out a work similar in character and intention to this, entitled "THE NEW BRITISH TEMPERANCE MAGAZINE, AND MONTHLY CHRONICLE," which will |