The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-02 00:00:00

TO THE PUBLIC.

! the present moment, when so many articles,
Loceesary to the comforts of the poorer classes, are more
'to
bah to taxation, it may surely be a queation, whether the
,eOl of Lotteries, by which the
. State was a gainer of
143 half a million per annum, be, or be not a wise mea-

Tie true, that, as they were forinerly conducted, the system
,c 5,11 fraught with some evil. Insurances were allowed upon the
se
of numbers through protracted drawings, and as the in-
Prances could be effected for very small sums, those who could
afford loss imbibed a spirit for gambling, which the Legisla-
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" varY wisely most effectually prevented, by adopting, in the
4ir 1809, they
resent improved mode of deciding the whole Lot-
pry in one
It •
ut 18 at present conducted, the Lottery is a voluntary tax,
rib to only by those who tan afford it, and collected with-
"uble or expence; _one, by which many branches of the
f.vinue are considerably aided, and by means of which hundreds
14"1"a find employment. The wisdom of those who at this
riligu the income produced by it, and add to the number of
unemployed, may, as I have observed in filmier address,
°Y be questioned. •
ryVitt whose ability in matter* of financial arrangement few
l igue"iont and whose morality was proverbial, would not, I
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to say, have yielded to an outcry against a tax, the con-
i4u ,oltm of which Would have enabled him to let the labourer drink
uuble beverage at a reduced price, or the industrious artisan
I,,u:''N his occupation by a cheaper light. But we live in other
fa th
, age of improvement!--To stake patrimonial estates
r Ecutte in the purlins of St-11111061$ is merely
14
.:I"ut., but to purchase a Ticket in the Lottery, by means of
man may, gain an estate at a trifling risk, is—immoral !
°,l 74thin a few hours of the time I write, were not many
0
Nobility and Senators, some of whom 1 dare say voted
'" Lotteries, assembled betting thousands upon a Horse

ru NkYing so much it may be thought that I am somewhat pre-
Inlptueus_, Or that I take a partial view of the ease. It is, how-
,,ere ray honeat opinion, abstracted from personal considerations,
the rilsaattra of abolishing Lotteries is an unwise oue, and as
lei' I give it to that Public, of whom I have been for many
us the highly favoured servant, and for whose patronage, though
otteries cease, to gratitude will ever continue.
AR mut of
.ffie tart Contraitors, I have assisted in arranging a
ileme, the approval of which by the plimie is hourly testified
the increasing demand fur Tickets and Shares. It containo,
,1 fur the first time that a Scheme ever did, SIX Grand Prises
f:iiitiry THOUSAND POUNDS, all Sterling Money.
't the. au to of Capitals of that amount my Offices have long been
teed, for the,'e were sold the First, the Last, and more than
'0 of all that NIT ever been drawn. For the sale of other
411itals my offices are too well known to make it requisite for
to enumerate, or make any remark, beyond a g,eneral one, that
re invariably auceetsfui, and of that' the Public are fully
bY the continued preference I have received for many
Arc

ottery being, as Parlianient has resolved,
to THE -LAST THAT EVER WILL BE DRAWN,
Ih he decided all in One Day, 18th of Jul.'s.
it former Address I apprized the Public, that the- price of
,eked
Shares would rise after the 27th inst.: it has riven,
14-74, and will continue to rise as the Drawing approaches.
I haie the honour to be your devoted Servant,
220, Bi S
sit, tock-Broker
- may, low,T. t 9,, (,'haring-Crofs.