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Show PITT'S FONDNESS FOR PORT. Great Statesman's Health Ruined by Over-indulgence. Tho ruin of Pitt's health was attributed attri-buted to his physicians, who mado him tako port In large quantities In his youth, ho that ho could not do without it later. I.ord Grenvlllo has seen him swallow a bottle of port In tumborfuls beforo going to tho House. His hands shook so much that when ho helped himself to salt he was obliged to support tho right hand with the left. Stothard, tho painter, happened hap-pened to be one evening at an Inn on tho Kent road when Pitt and Dundas put up there on their way to Walmer. Next morning tho 'waltor said to Stothard: "How much wlno do you suppose they drank last night? Seven bottles, sir!" Rogers' Tablo Talk. |