The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1816-07-26
From The Aurora.

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the design is mistaken upon every priD.
ciple of calculation whether oil utility,
diffusion of useful truth or profit A
prs sen, its utility rs confined to it
subsr, ibers, which do not exceed /;
thousand while every other paper j
the country is open 10 the Who'll. pcpU-
ialion, by the opportunity fextractine
into them, whs, may appear suitable
TO the taste or views o, the several
ditors, and thus extending its uselu
ness over tn" whole country. No p'
per could copy the whole oil Cobbet,'.
Register, though there IS not a sinfiS
number OF il which does not abou'
With matter the mos, seriously in
seresting 10 every man tie This country
who eutertains the least spark OF SIN
cere love, Tor virtue md for the tree
dom and indspend nee Of this republic
--or, indeed for the happiness OF the
human species. We find in the Dnb-
an Chronicle, Of May Esd, Cobbett's
XIII Letter 20 the PEOPLE IF the Unit
ed States, stared to be published IN bis
Register of the 18th, in London. The
Register published at New York on
,
we shall, therefore, copy the numbe'
from the Dublin paper, as 1t does no
interfere with tho copy right, and u
will ford specimen, though very
inadeeuate one, from the variety, and
miputeIess, and importance of the dis
cussions, which the paper altogether
embraces We do not hesitate to say
that there is more TO be iearaed oil prac-
tical usefulness from those papers OF
) Co6beft, than from the whole Tribe OF
English historians Hume, Smollet
Robertson, Coo,e Bisscls, or even Bel.
sham who give only the varnishec
skeletons of history. Goblet gives
the muscles and the nerves, and the
whole body animated.
FROM Co66eH's Political Register Of
May 10, 1916.
To the People of the u S of America
Letter XIII.
John Bats great Ioftery-John Butts
BuEvark, in Peaee---John RnUs
COunrerbuB.
Bofiey. Nay ts.
You have lotteries in your country.
and, think. il would be great dea
better for your morals il you had none
Qualify the thing how we please, be the
object what IT may, still i, is gaming /;
it Is, at the very best game at ha-
zard--it is an endeavor TO get money
out OF the pockets of others, by excit-
ing in those others hope which, upon
the whole, must OF necessity be false
and, there where is any man OF chara,
ter, who-would not be ashamed TO ac-
knowledge that he had wilfully and de
liberately excited false hope in sno.
sher for the purpose of getting money
from him But, l am now about to talk
90 yo, of lottery of different des-
eruption indeed Il is John Bulls grear
annual lottery. You have blanks as well
as prizes In all your lotteriesi and So
have we in some of ours. Those who
put into your lotteries purchase tickets,
or shares of tickets--so it is in some
of ours But, in John Bulls great ma
tional annual lottery, there are no
blanks, and the parties give nothing for
their tickets.
No, to keep you longerin suspense,
this is the nature of the thing. Just
after Easter Tuesday, the officers ofihe
several parishes hold a meeting. at
which, hy the way of lottery, they dis
tribute amongst the most able parish
ioners, young paupers to be kept by
the said parishioners and brought up
BY them in their own houses, or at any
rate maintained by them, clothed, fed,
lodged, and doctored at their own par
tIcular expence, until they grow up to
be men or women Luckily I have
Just lad prize drawn for me in this
lottery girl, Of about 10 or % years
Of age, So that besides about six hun
dred dollars year that pay towards
the keeping of the paupers in money, !
shall, IL live SO long, have this CIR
upou my hands for years! This is
big John BULBS great lottery la had
all my share Of paupers .quartered Up
OF me as this girl is, shoul have r.
bout twenty-eight Of all ages. Iris
number l maintain anti have maintsi-
ed for years, while, upon an average, 1
have not employed more than twcIv.
Iaborers, or thirteen at most, inc!udin,
garden and every thing In my own
house we are twelve altogether S.
that have more lhan one pauper To
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