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PAYMF,NT of PRIZES shawls on the 23d Day of Apt ii
It -
stant, being the SECOND DAY, of DRAWING the SE-
. COND LOTTERY tor the year 1822.
LOTTERY-OFFICE, SOMERSET-PLACE,
. .
May 3, 1823.
TR" COMMISSIONERS appointed for MA-
.. NAGING the LOTTERIES do hesseby give Notice,
That Numbers of TICKETS and SHARES thereof in all
preceding Lotteries may be examined at this Office every day
(,Sundays excepted), with their Registers of Benefits and
Blanks.
And the'COMMISSIONERS appointed to take in the BE-
NEFlT'nexus of thesSECOND LOTTERY for the year
13r!, do hereby give Notice, That they will attend at their
us Somerset-Place, on MONDAY, the 12th Instant,
front Ten o'clock in the Forenoon to One &Clock in the
Afternoon, to take in and enter the BENEFIT TICKETS
drawn on Wednesday, the 23d day of Apt it last, being the Se-
c"d PaY of drawing the same Lottery, to be exchanged for
Certificates purshant to the Act of Parliament in that behalf.
And for further dispatch thereof, the said COMMISSION-
ERS will take in and enter the TICKETS numbered from
1%41%,001 to No. 9,500 at one seat, and the Tickets numbered
from No. 9,501 to No. 14,000 at another seat, and the per-
sons possessed thereof are directed to bring with their Tickets
separate Lists thereof, marked A and B, formed in Humeri-
, cal order, adapted to each of the said seats, and at the hot-
-1" as of each List to write the name and proper additions of
the persists entitled to the value of the said Tickets.
And the said COMMISSIONERS' also give further notice,
That Certificates for the value of the said TicketsAxill be de-
livered out on THURSDAY,. the 15th day of May next, at
Noon, after which the said COMMISSIONERS will take in and
enter 'rickets its their usual Monthly entry; and all persons
are desired to observe they must bring duplicates of their
Lists when,they come for their Certificates.
The CONIMISSIONERS. also give further notice, That
a liond of indemnity must he entered into by two respectable,
11"t'keepers (to be approved by the said COMMISSIONERS)
together with the person entitled to the value of any Ticket
or Tickets which may have been lost, or to any Ticket or
Tickets the Checks of which may have been torn or destroyed,
before the Commissioners can grant Certificates for the same;
and that, in ease of a lost Ticket, an Affidavit must also be
made of the eirCumstances attending the loss of the same,
hifore one of the Honourable Barons of his Majesty's Ex.
chequer.

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION, for OPPOSING
the • PROGRESS of DISLOYAL and SEDITIOUS
PRINCIPLES.
PM:NIDE:XT.—Sir JOIIN SEWELL, LL.D. F.R.S.
II I'd CONS'FITU'rIONAL ASSOC"-
' "LION was formed in December 1820. Its establish-
ment was called for by the alarming infinence of a licentious
Press in disseminating Disloyal and Seditious Principles—an
evil which had become the general subject of complaint,in nu-
merous Loyal Addressea and'Resolutioi.s, throughout.all parts
of the kingdom.
Zealously attached to the Legal and Constitutional Libertynodf
the Press, the Association stood forth to uard tilt greatr this paUr-
invaluable privilege from perversion abuse;and and
POse it proposed to itself two especial objects—theo_ encourage-
meat of loyal and able writings in support of the Constitution ;
and the restraint of Seditious and Treasonable Libels.
The Association had soon the satisfaction to number among
its supporters persons of the highest rank and respectability in
tike State : Members of both Houses of Parliament, Aulnalgieisitnrafteers.,
• Cleigy, andothers whose names have been n p t
~ , .
?ITheisdvertisernents. The Committeerp, teoews hnfomthwe was entrusted
lie task of carrying into effect
, oe unceasingly devoted theirtheex.eprttliones to. thniesl harrrenawtedluetfyi—he
• r,b-eY have, in strict conformity with the original avowal _
.1.1,7_.
Principles of the Association, invariably abshtainednferi
Mg in the party politics of the day. They ethmermreigul-
nerated any work. in support of party principlaevse ;
nor have they
Pbtriets..telealey ted any libel on personal character, however elevated ;
have encouraged. attem to ate constituti.nal
d°eu-inea, and they have endeavoured toillust resrtrain publications
subversive of the respect due to the Soveleign, to.
.the Consti..
toted Authoritiea of the State, to the public Administration of
t:ustice, and to the Civil and Religious Institutions of the Em-
'are.
a„, ,It was their desire, by encouraging writers of integFitey
--m• taient, to persuade rather than to punish. But, agalat tort
publications of mere invective and malevolence, directed no
atialedireloM,oneinnat, but to the baser passions of mankind, argument
are of no avail ; and it became necessary, pt se-
to.veral flagrant instances, to consign offenders of this description
the punishment of the law.
IlltThe ommittee, however, did not adopt this last measure
,hout great caution. Anxious to warn the ignorant, and un-
witting to proceed against any but wilful transgressors, they
tallaCti a short, buteear exposition of the Law of Libel to be
01/iinetneds
bannntlkdeiasntrtippu:iendtea;mon , the venders of Impious and Se..
and no prosecution was commenced
lima it-appeared that the warning thus given had been altoge-
slher ineffectual. In the same spirit of moderation they mu-
bwraaced every
ye a °lTlrt 11 n i t y of exercising lenity, where contrition
e
re 1 a -IV / anq security given, that the dffence would not is ceZ"fd. it
1Y
beproper to add, that the Committee pro-
indictmente`lY by the plain, legal, and constitutional course by
trw ; that they pseferred no bill but by the advice of
wilreiel7 Counsel ; that every publication prosecuted by them,
to ~.. _ m_ititherto come before a Court, has been pronounced
"I:(ltachfeel'in_dbteelurtbbY;l,nleatucidultete;dland that in no one instance has
travrsedPartoeves.rs of their operations the Committee have been
alone ' and 1.-Y steP. They will not allude to the personal
re.neiletir --- misrepresentation which they have so effectually
1i4,1 + nor to the alleged unlawfulness of measures which
,ore }!en since dechtred hy the highest judicial authorities to be
,ocuY legal ; hut the effect of the dexterity
v merasinittoiniiimtepodsleegrperaete
111,1Zi; Yeti on behalf of the accused to defeat the ends of justice,
a.. e. to
n„tteeea suchany management.
additionaleedin labour on the Corn-
Tient the expence of prosecution. and very greatly to
under Seven
subscribed to the present moment are considerably
01._
rvaeven Thousand Pounds, and it is scarcely necessary to
iZ,,•T e, that the services of the' Committee (all of whom are
eTributors to the funds of the Association) have been per-
tii,,lrgilltuitous. The disbursements have consisted in the rF-
thele auon of Loyal Writers, in the publication of Tracts, i,n. that ,47 exPenee of Advertisements and Printing, in fta-
l._ Ises or the numerous Prosecutions which the Committee.
Salaries
it their duty to institute or to defend, and in Rent,
~
ties to Clerks, and other • incidental payments, during a
l'etlo I of nearly two years and a half,
! ~.. ',oi r the success of their measurea, the Committee may refer
dies
diminished circulation of those Seditious Libels, which
ti Otiered the Association neeeasary ; and to the suppression of
p...451' odious prints which condense within the compass of at
"Dint the poison of a volume. The convictions obtained agains
1..4._e of the most' hardened and perseverini; violators of the
th!f. have operated as salutary examples to deter otherst and
to(c)!neficial effect on public morals and public tranquillity is
• 461P.Ited not to strike the most cursory observer. .
tr4di`tton and Disloyalty, however, though checked, are not
tecft,c,,4ted and it is with deep regret that the Committee have
,viri•Y seen
Too,l.eraded rank and perverted talent enlisted in this
,Iktee4ome. meet such -adversaries further exertion is still
•,i,$_,.):::::::4 and the Committee appeal to the Friends
4-c leesL!i e, rel 6 t in of the
etation, and to the Public in general, for additiownialinsitiepei ent that hey shall receive it from all those
the welfare of their country ; and who, ryl therd,.7
1,1 , are aensible of the danger to which its- Religion, its
1 44_, hiShalld its Constitution,. are still exposed.
1 uY order of the Committee,
f.,a' ~,,„,, CHARLES MURRAY, Honorary Secretary.
...'"lee-Itoom, 13, Salisbury-square,
May 1, 1023. . .