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No, 42, JTOE 1St, 1858.] to OUR READERS. SIR HENRY A single Copy of the British Workman sent post free for twelve months for two shillings ; or a Published for the Editor by Messrs. PARTRIDGE & Co, of Pour Copies, post free for four shillings, paid in advance. No, 42, JTOE 1st, 1858.] A. W. BBNNETT ; and W. TWEBDIE, London. packet THE LATE TO OUR READERS. SIR HENRY HAVELOCK. N consequence of the accounts we IN three short months, the name of HAVE- have received of the fearful ravages LOCK had become a " household word.' and which ARRACK and other strong when, two months later, tidings of his death drinks are making amongst the arrived, all England mourned as for a friend troops in India, and more particu­ departed. America united with us in this larly in Calcutta, we have felt it a grief, and for the first time since 1774, the matter of duty to devote the chief portion ships in New York harbour exhibited signs of this number to SOLDIERS. When it is of sorrow for the decease of a British sub­ borne in mind that upwards of fifty thousand ject. Havelock is dead, but he is not lost of our countrymen have left our shores for either to the army or the world. He still India,and that the " climate and drinking" speaks, and where is the British soldier who will, in all human probability, cut down will not listen with interest and deference many thousands of these, year after year, we to the lessons of his life? Some of these feel assured that we need offer no apology lessons relate to that personal piety, to our general readers for the course we which he cherished amid the routine of the have adopted. garrison, and the turmoil of the camp. It We jejoice to find that great efforts are is, however, his TEMPERANCE experience being made in the army, to wipe away the on which we purpose to dwell, as beauti­ reproach which has so long attached itself fully illustrative of his character, and as a to the British soldier. Not a few officers and legacy from which every one may profit. privates are settingthemselves to workingood He yet speaks we have said, and he does earnest, and God is evidently blessing their so most d3cisively upon the non-necessity and efforts. In one case, an active sergeant non-utility of intoxicating beverages in not gathered a group around him, and reasoned and trying climates. He early detected with them on "righteousness, temperance, the fallacy, at one time all but universal, that and a judgment to come." " Comrades! " under extremes of weather, and arduous said he, " is it your ambition to figure very labour, alcoholic liquors are indispensable, often in the guard-room and cells? DRINK or at least highly useful. India was his is the most speedy road to these unenviable home for upwards of thirty years; yet, " as places. Beware of the first step down the his rule, he drank neither wine, beer, nor hill." By persevering efforts, a temperance spirits;" and w e are further told, that" when society has been formed by this individual, at the commencement of the AfTghan war, comprising more than one-eighth of the he took a little wine, at the recommenda­ entire regiment! tion of his friends, and then had a sligbt at­ To such workers, we hope that No. 42 tack of fever, he ascribed it to his departure of the British Workman, will afford some from his ordinary practice, and immediately help and encouragement. Comrad&s ! Is it your ambition to figure very often in the CHUBD-BOOM and CELLS ? DBINK is the most speedy road to those unenviable plates* 166 T H E B RIT IS H W 0 R K M A N. June 1st, 1858. resumed his temperance :*b.abits, stating, as knows I have no opportunity among my LIEUT.-COL. SYtES, his deep ,conviction, "wi;Kp,:R is the best profane comrades, who have AN OLD SOLDIER'S ADVICE. THE WIDOW'S SON; become my Whose name is known throughout regiinenfor the soldier" enemies merely on account of my profession WE recently had the pleasure of meeting the wide OR, Havelock, be it noted, arrived at this con­ of religion." He went on to world, and .who was for many years a resi­ say t!-:at he had with George Godfrey, to whom most pleas­ dent in India, says: A NIGHT WITH THE WASHINGTONIANS. clusion, from personal experience .and ob­ made this defence on his trial, but the offi­ ing reference is made in the recently pub­ servation, though his acquaintance with cers thought it so improbable, lished Memoir " I never followed a farinaceous or vege­ (Continued ^rampage 162J that they paid of Sir H. Havelock. The table regimen myself in India, history may have helpe.d to confirm it. As no attention to it. " If your story be true," following testimony, will, nor do I re­ The duel had,,resulted in we trust, be of commend it to others; but I ate moderately the death of a student of the Bible^ he had learned that said the Marquis, " you have acquired service to the thousands who are now in Balford, who was shot down at the first fire, the strangest of warriors and men was considerable aptness .by and drank little; and I have strong convic­ an your exercise. India, or about to sail thither: tion that and died before he could be taken from the abstainer by express Divine command. He Kneel down, and let me hear you pray!" "At the age much of European disease in India of 21 years, on the 22nd of is traceable to over-stimulus, and would also, remember, that the Roman The poor trembling soldier fell on his knees, February, 1826, I enlisted into the 13th that the soldiers performed their amazing tasks with closed his eyes, clasped his hands, Light Infantry, mortality among the European troops will and then now called ''Prince Al­ not be lessened, no other beverage than posca, (vinegar and poured out his soul before God with such bert's," and joined my until the European soldier depot at Chatham, is improved in his habits, until he is water.) He was not ignorant, likewise, that solemnity, earnestness and power, pleading a few days after. Two years afterwards I made the Saracens, while rigidly abstaining from not only for himself but also was to understand that temperance is for the for his perse­ sent out to join my regiment in India, benefit of strong drink, vanquished half the world in cutors, that the Marquis took him by the stationed at Dinapore. his body, libraries for the benefit an i incredibly short space of time. hand, and said he was of his mind, exercise for the benefit of his satisfied that no man In 1831 the regiment marched to Agra, health, The example of General Havelock testifies could pray in that manner who did not which was considered and savings-banks for the benefit of a good station, and his purse." Journal of finally to the value of derision and firmness live in the habit of intercourse with his though, being only a short time in the country, the Statistical Society. in a good cause. It was not easy twenty God. He not only revoked the sentence, I noticed the terrible effects of drinking in the years ago, not so easy als now, for a soldier but received him into his special favour, regiment, and not being altogether free TESTIMONY OP in India to abstain; neither was it easier for placing him among his personal attendants, from the habit myself, I was led to think MAJOR-GENERAL DACRES. the officer than the private to do so; but once and giving him high promotion! seriously on the matter, and came to the convinced that abstinence was the right conclusion that I would never again take a THE following valuable testimony is from course, he was not diverted from it by per­ SPEECH OF SIR HENRY dram of spirits. ARKACK was the usual Major-General Dacres, who commanded suasion or persecution. He did what he beverage at the time. My resolution was the Royal Artillery during the Crimean war. felt to be his duty—did it courteously, but HAVELOCK. ; ';..' considered by many as a very rash act, and SIR, Feeling as I do the great importance conscientiously and consistently. WE have now before us a printed Report a thing that could hardly be carried out in of the temperance movement, a feeling Sir Henry Havelock's example inculcates dated "Serampore, 1838," of the "Tem­ such a hot country as India. It was new which increases every day of my life, any benevolent exertion. He lived for others. perance Society in Her Majesty's 13th to myself, but I looked to GOD for help, aid I can give you I shall be most happy to He did not preach temperance principles Light Infantry," from which we extract the and was encouraged, though there was only afford. Prom the horrible effects of intem­ and fail to practise them; nor, on the following speech by Sir H. Havelock (then one other man in the corps that abstained perance that I daily see, and read of in the other hand, did he practise them and re­ Captain H.) at a meeting held at Kurnaul at that time. He had carried it out for papers, I consider it my duty to do what main indifferent to their diffusion. He on the 4th September, 1837. Although some years, and did so till, his death; lie little I can to promote habits of sobriety.
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