The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-10

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 ANATOMY ON DRUNKENNESS. The last number of LITTELL's MUsE- UNI contains review, from BLACKwooD's s MAGAZINE, of pr. MAcNrsH's ANATOMY OF DRUNKENNESS, which judging from the specimens, we are, inclined to think one of the most curious books lately pulp liShed. The Reviewer is admirably suit ed to his author, and both seem to under stand their subject thoroughly. The lat ter has probably acquired his knowledge by observation. The former would, per- haps, boast that his is derived from expe- rience. ~ An extract or two may not be uuaccept- able to our readers-x-not for their own use, as we are aware that no tippler would read so sober paper as ours--but to strengthen them in the admonition of those who may need it.
 Some of the Doctors remarks on the ! cause of drunkenness we have heard a thousand times-for example:
 "Some become drunkards from excess of indulgence in youth. There are pa- rents who lave common custom of trea- ting their children to wine, ,punch and otll- CT intoxicating liquors.--This in reality is regularly bringing them up in an appren- ticesh;p to drunkenness.
 Men who are good singers are very apt to become drunkards, and in truth, most of | them are so, more or less, especially if they have naturally much joviality or warmth of temperament. A fine voice to such men is fatal accomplishment" To the first of these opinions the re- viewer expresses his hearty assent. It is worth giving in his own words: @ What more loathsome than to see a lout and loblolly of schoolboy, probably booby of his class, standingbchind bis pa- pas chair, in eager expectation of the customary rummer of punch? The old fool asks him for toast too; and with an apoplectc laugh shakes his sides at the long conned and oft-repeated extempdfa- neous effusion of hereditary wit. The younger brats meanwhile keep sucking a. way at the shoppers of the decanters." As to the other, he makes distinction, which we sincerely trust is we'll founded:
 "Good singers dooccasionally go wrong in this way, but not nearlyso often as bad ones. We cannot at this blessed moment charge our memory with one first-rate gen. tleman singer, who is not a perfect para gon of sobriety. We defy drunkard to sing to any effect "A Bumper at parting, or 'The ewin wi the Crooked Horn,' or any truly delightful Scottish, Irish, or Ital- ian melody. To sing well you must keep lsober-every fine singer knows anu feels that--indulge in drinking and the voice is broken, the ear uDtuned, the soul of music sacrificed at it's very source; and instead of the cry of encore, there is disappoint- ed silence the uplifting of hand and eyes, and many silent soliloquies over the obse- quies of those sounds that once set the ta- ble in hush, and dirnmed the sparkling of fair eyes with the irresistible beauty of tears."
 The Doctors description of the pleas ures of intoxication is so lively, that we should feel scruples of conscience against aiding its circulation, but for the convic- ! tiOA WHlSu WC AoVO OAPiCSoCus suO ] Chronicle falls into none but sober hands. Besides, the horrors of the conclusion are more than sufficient to counterbal- ance the temptations of the commence nlent.
 l <" The consequences of drunkness are dreadful, but the pleasures of getting drunk are certainly ecstatic. While the illusion lasts, happiness is complete; care and melancholy are thrown to the wind, and Elysium, with all its glories, descends up- on the dazzled imagination of the drin- ker.
 "Some Authors have spoken of the pleasure of being completely drunk: this. however, is not the most exquisite period. The time is when person is neither drunken nor sober, but neighbor to both, as Bishop Andrews says in his sEx--ale -tation of Ale.' The moment is when the etherial emanations begin to float a. round the brain-when the soul is com mencing to expand it's wings and rise from the earth--when the tongue feels itself somewhat loosened in the mouth, and breaks the previous taciturnity, if any such existed. .
 "What are the sensations of incipient drunkenness {! First an unusual serenity prevails oyer the mind, and the soul of n l.