Excerpt from a letter from ROBERT TANNAHILL to JAMES KING.

—Ramsay, page xxxvi.

PAISLEY, 12th, November, 1809.

“When at any time I have been led into it I never felt so unhappy, so truly miserable in all my life; a social night passed in moderation is life to me, but the bestial roar of inebriation, I never could, nor ever shall be able to bear.”