stigmatizing opium fiercely, appears to have been of
that school of reformers who

" Compound for sins they are inclined to
By damning tliose they have no mind to :"

the second Abbas, on entering upon a campaign
against the Khan of Tartary, issued an army-regula-
tion which denounced slitting of the nose to any
soldier who should be caught using tobacco ; and
this failing the offender was to be roasted. Michael"
Feodorovitch Grand Duke of Moscovia th'reatened
the bastinado, to be followed for repeated offenses by
lopping -off the nose or else by death. Selim II.
decreed beating and a fine; Mahomet IV., equally
severe as a man but more reasonable as a ruler,
placed his objection on hygeienic grounds, an im-
paired virility consequent upon the use.
