If so, Stockbridge Library can help you!
But, before you seek out help, you need to acknowledge that you have a problem. The realisation for me came when I discovered I had three copies of the same edition of the Sunday Times Magazine. As a New Year’s resolution, I’ve committed to substantially reducing my stockpile. The magazines I have broadly fall into three categories:
The article below, apparently written on Christmas Day 1790, appeared in the Caledonian Mercury on 1 January 1791.
It is possible that the subject matter appealed to some Presbyterian editor sucking in his cheeks at the celebration of a Rome-ish mass south of the Border. But it is more probable that the Editor enjoyed the deadpan humour of a supposed 'member of the Church of England' urging abstemiousness in terms that would have struck many disapproving or hypocritical Scots as excessive.