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allowed the expression, the whole body politic of the colony has at length become completely saturated with intoxicating liquors, and the entire mass of its humours completely corrupted.

The present consumption of ardent spirits in New South Wales, and the progressive increase of consumption during the last ten years, will appear from the following Return of the Quantity of Spirits on which duty has been paid in the colony during that period, with the amount of the duty."

Year.Gallons.Duty.
£.s.d.
1826149,902½ 43,6551211
1827139,085 41,555 010
1828168,328 52,67118 9
1829186,114½ 61,59217 8
1830202,773¾ 67,49818 8
1831223,900 74,6341110
1832247,295 82,62716 7
1833287,782 95,535 4 9
1834273,841½107,955 9 1
1835291,138117,161 811

The population of the colony at the close of Sir Thomas Brisbane's administration, in October, 1825, was 36,336; and at the end of the year 1835 it was in all likelihood not less than 80,000,

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