resides at Conadarque
we have reason to believe has great influence
among them, being lately in this City, we
have fully and freely confered with him on
the present concern and had the satisfaction to
find him thoroughly disposed to render his best
Services therein, in which we believe he may
be singularly useful.
The distresses and difficulties
which these poor people labour under
we believe
may in a great degree be attributed to their
pro-
pensity to the use of Spirituous Liquors introduced
among
them by Traders and Evil-minded men
who have been in the practice of
taking advan-
tage of this weekness and cheating them of
their
Skins and Furs, which instead of being applied to
the
purchase of Cloathing and necessary articles
are too generally
bartered for Rum and Whiskey
and thus through their attachment to
this de-
basing and destructive Enjine of Satan, they are
left
destitute and miserable, their morals corrupted and
as they
come to reflect with coolness their minds are