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(Osuitzurd Yloriejsmellok Neer.)
Mr. R.! Lusts e.ramieed. •
What are )ou ?—1 ant a" silk inaeutacturer by
, tease. lam treasurer of the poor'ii rates of the
perish in which I live, which is in Wood-street,
Soul-field.; I have served the offices of overseer
and goyenior of the poor, and guardian, and indeed
every office of the kind.
How many years have you been employed in the
management of the poor 's rates, or the superin-
teielante of the poor ?-11'ken I first came into
office was in the year 1800, eight years ago. From
that time I have taken an active concern is the
parish affairs.
Are you, from your experience. enabled to give
the Committee any iuformstion of the evils arising
from the Lottery nu your parish among the lower
classes?—Yes, the information I give may he of a
gene: II nature ; but, had I had more ki.ure, I
could have got some particular facts, which would
have been more COlLLiaive. We frequently hare
instances of females coiniug into the workhouse,
and the wife will tell her story, that her husband
b..a left her ; she comes is with three or four child-
r. a, they are qui e distreissed. not a bed to lie nit ;
and, if we investigate the case closely, we frequerv-
ly find, that it is in co sequence of the Lotter),
sad that ske has. auknos n to her husband, kept
back the money she ought to have applied tithe
*Notaries of life. end. en Seethes, when he
rx ileCt* a clean oil at the pawnbroker's.
•••erVery afore they will tiosceal it ; I,ut, as a
silk mantifaciiirer. I dal.' by hints and by
some evideoce that they hare leen spending
money its insurance% or purehasieg tickets.—
insurances now go on, and to a• very greet ex-
tent ; but since the offices have hero put a stop to,
it is more private, and in its consequence inure de-
structive, because a woman. when she begins to in-
sure, is lender the necessity of keeping it secret.
She feels it is a crone, she is therefore obliged to
go step by step. and. as she proceeds, ehe will be
tetuptcNl lu purloin what she can. If she as a Nef-
f rant, she takes what she can out of the house.
They have been known to go to di:itaut pears,'
where rues would pawn the property of the Conde.
and then tear the duplicate, that it may net (t e
discovered. Instanees Vare occurred in Spiral-
of insurances lately to such au extent, thug
women. after piilasing all the furniture they had
that the puenbrokers would take, evert when us
reduced, they will club a peuny-a-piece, to raise
tae sum ore shilliug, to insure a itemiser for eddy.
I hare wade inquiries how it war earned on ; Burl
I hare been intaelearil that there are many who
go la ,ant with books emicenied. After their
biesiums, they go of a awaniing early, a.id they get
access 10 one wormed er one luau In a house. aad
tans pen'o m will get half • dozen iuore or a deter',
and the collector w I oilvtaps get a slmitl rag from
each, and in this war they will obtain 401. or Gel.
they then take it lip to the Licensed Lottery-
abet°, and will re..eise 7) per cent. upon the sum.
(Juleps it was known that these men, who act as
collectors, were i.m connection with soaie lattery-
office, the people would not be induced to trasard
speculations foe persona hare insured. owl :the
number has come up, and the persons trusted have
run ed. He ice now it hi gene.. ly kneel. that
these collectors are cootie( tell wdh Offices, and
such Offices will take care of them, and pay them
well while in prison for such illegal trnafilletlllll6.
I had an instance, about three years and a half
ago : a inais by his industry had rased enough to
purchase half a hundred is the consols, and he
went to the particular drawer where it was kept,
and to his surprise it was gone. Looking further,
his linen was gone; and when he questioned his
wife about, it, she was obliged to confess that she
I had lost a great part of it in the Lottery. The
money being gone, he went away. aid she was
turned off from her work. If we Mid our work-
people are dalthting in the Lottery, in shares and
insurences, we know the temptation is so m
faerriat,.
that we do not continue the ; for, let us as
careful as poosible, they ciao rob as of es. to ss. a-
day, and if we know they are guilty, we tune them
out of employ directly. If I was to go to tweedy
or thirty of my people, they would deny the cir-
cumstance, although they do it. There is sot
conclusive piece of evidence respecting the Lottery.
Spital-fields is more shut out than any whet place
in the Metropolis. The butchers, the barker,. and
k other tradesmen, dealing in the nectoseries of life,
who depend fur their subsistence on the money
which is laid out by the labouring poet, this order
of persons take lees money every week during the
time that the Lottery is drawing, including one
week before it begins, and two or three weeks af-
terwards, sad even the publicans find this. A
butcher with whom I hal some conversation this
morning, who deals with these people, tells me.
that he finds a great difference as to the money lie
takes among the labouring poor. These butchers
sell mud, small meat, particularly out Saturday.
lie told toe of a eosin whose wife had a jeitifuse et'
501 a-year, and ware lost all.the property they
hail in the Lottery, and owe this butcher iboL-er
This was discovered a day or two hack.
Do you perceive much difference since the Lot-
tery has been put on the footing on which it was
placed in 190 i ?—Before it was upon the new fool-
ing, there were regular rooms opened for the histii-
nem. Perhaps a Lottery-Olkee Clerk would ensue
and my, " If you will *pen your room, and keep a
book, I will giveyon tau guineas, and, at the enpi-
' ration of the Lottery, ten guineas more."
When you first became acqoainted with the si-
tuation of` the poor, about 11101. did you tied inure
of these evils prevailing than you ilo now?—Not mo
much then. Soon after I nuns into office. the
quarteni loaf rose greatly, and the poor people were
actually starviug. They had it not in their pewee
to follow the Lottery. That scarcity coutiiiiied
until 1902, and it was, in its ill effects, felt far a
year or two after.

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to roar manufactory, during the whole bine the
Lotteries coatinue, are ywu able to grt hp work
dose f—We do not get so much work done; but
we cannot judge now, foi thy poor are three-fourths
of them unemployed. In common times we get
less work done. If you were to go to SpitaWelds,
and to appear as a stranger. said ask the hutches
and bakers why trade is bad with them the reply
would be, its such times, that it is the Lottery sea.
sou. But if I employ a winder, a woman who

takes a great quantity of work. and who does so
touch wo.k by emnplo mg half a dozen under
1 frequently find she cannot get the work none oil
account et the Lottery. If you were to take a
walk leading to the places where the Lottery is
drawing, you would - .e them lined with,hundreds
of wretched people of the deacrititiou 1 hale al-
lud d ti..

liar, you had oreasion to discharge many Orr-
sous fiem your employment, on account tif their
having cnosarked i. iiisurances in the Lottery
have Irequeutly ha..i occasion to discharge these
people ; and whets I narrewty nispeeted them, they
have confessed that they lost money iu the Lottery.
A. to the Lottery beiiii; the real native of their
distress, have you soy doubt ?—No doubt ; but
you will never remedy that, without &mug away
the Lottery entirely.
Do you believe that there is such a propensity to
gambling among the lower classes of the people of
this country, with which you are acquainted, as to
lead yon to suppose, that if the Lottery were en-
tirely done away. they would have recourse to some
other mode of gaining I—By no means; the la-
bouring poor will go to a public-house, where they
may have a game at howls, and play for a half-
penny or a penny a.game ; but they elo not lose lid.
a-night. But the insurance has been much more
destructive Ulll9/1; the women ; they have oppor-
tunities of doing it privately, so that the husbands
can get on Iscawledge of st ; and when they are
embarked. their poverty will be dtscovered ; and
they are tempted to go further to bring back what
they have lost.
Hai e you heard of little-goes, in the neighbour-
hood of Spital-fields ?—No, I have not.
Do ye' apprehend there are any there ?—I
should suppose not.
Has at come to your knowledge, that there are
other suedes of gaming your ueighbotirLood, by
width your work-people have been reduced to the
same sort of distress as by ginibling in the Lot-
tery ; sf I might give my opinion of the
elects of th- Lottery. of the infloeuce it has is
corroptiug the people, and if I might form it-,t
opinion from the appearances in Spital-ariels, I
should be led to conclude, that there is e• cirri:sus-
storti7e which conduces so much as the Lottery to
n e the lower orders of the people bad wivesshad
husbands, bad childrea, and bad aCINBII9I. 1 know
ins one tiling which has been productive of so many
evils. and of se much I,llCides as the Lottery.
Cap you mention any instances of suicide from
the effects of the Lottery ?—1 have heard it fre-
quently spoken of; there is hardly :t year hot one
or snore have hung themselves, or cut their throat,
from gambling in the Lottery.
Do you Bail the collectiou of the poor's rates
more difficult during the time the Lottery is draw-
ing ?—Yes; a great deal. I know the circum-
stance of a woman no..v with two children, who
pawned every thing, and had oat a bed to lie on,
.froiu insurances in the last Lottery.

The Ref. BROWN LOW Foust, examinmi.
What is your situation ?-1 am the ()military of
N witate.
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yon give the Committee any information of
the evils arising out of the Lot.,ry in its present
state ?+l have known a great marts.
Of late years ?-0f late years. 1 have been Or-
dimary of Newgate for teu years, and this is the
cause of isaily crimes, Ems that source, eekniog
to my kuowledge.
Will you give any particular instances of such
crimes committed ?-1 recollect many instance. 01
death.; and malefactors have told me. that the
were driven to distress for the sake of insursog
the Lottery, or buying tickets. That is all I can
say collectively. Individually I had gathered iii-
(mulattos ; but findiag no istteistioa paid to it, I
did not yoeser•e the particulars. I gave Lord
ham a plan for drawing the Lottery ; and his ord-
ship said, he approved of all I recorlineniled. and
that he bad laid it before Mr. Addington. When
I have put the question to mall factors, What
first drove you to crime ?" the atria er luta hecti,
It was the poverty from buying and Mewl.% i.l
the Lottery."
Were yi;u induced to deliver to Lord Pelham the
paper you mentioned, by frequent instances of
crime from the Lottery- ?—They occurred so fre-
quently, that I cast about to know what plan I could
devise to alter the mode of drawing, to prevent in-
surances. The plan sap, thaythere should be no
blanks drawn, and that it should go ou and be con-
cluded in ooe day. If they wanted clerks, to re-
lieve each other, let them take them by two and
two. Alyideit was, that it would stop the in►u-
rances. I sin of opinion now, that if the offices
were not carried on as they are, scattered about in
holes and corners, it would ►e a much better
scheme. Really. in the prevent system of thing',
the Lottery-offices cannot pay their clerks, mine
few iialivicluals may beuefit themselves ; but among
those who take tickets on their own chance, sixteen
out of twenty are la-era. If there were public, or
royal offices, it would be much better. I have
know,, people set up is this way, without a *W-
hoa' ; take homes at 1001. or 1501. a-year rent.
'nil engage llve or six clerk* - Haw ess thrf pay
If there is money to be got by such means, let at
lighten the expenses of Government.
To be osotiewee.)