Star. — 1817-03-19 (London, England)

WII.BERFORCE thought it very strange that the last speaker should have admitted that Lotteries destroyed religious and moral feelings; and yet maintain that they should .be kept up to raise 500 tnousand rends a-year for the service of the State. There .was no other species of vice or immorality which might not be defended on a similar principle. It was infinitely better to encourage the people to lay up a gradual. provision for old age in the Saving Bank:4o9u to hold out a false hope of sudden wealth to be derived from the Lottery. Lord CASTLEREAGH should have felt great satislaction, if they could have given up this Tax with justice to the larger interests of the State. The mo. dente use of Lotteries, like that of intoxicating spirits, would be voductive of 'no evil; it was only the inordinate use of them that was • pernicious. He wished to know, if the Honourable Gentleman who bad objected to Lotteries as a source of revenue, would agree to any new 'Fax to be imposed for the purpose of repairing the evil to be incurred by the abolition of tins branch of finance. Being convinced that we could not spare this part of our revenue, he shoold move the previous question on the Resat.' lotions of the Honourable Gentleman. Lord A. HAMILTON thought the evils arising fr sis the Lottery system had been sufficiently abeam fruwt the other side attic House to create as abhorreoce against tltf continuance of this tax. He thought the Noble Lord and his colleaguelought to tee} auasideraole hurnihation at having reduced  themselves to raise £500,000 a-rear out of the vices, and at the expense of the character of the people. Mr. B. MORELAND said, that the mischiefs arising from 'Lotteries were much greater in Paris than they ever acre in this country. A Lite traveller in France had asserted, that Lotteries produced ono hundred suicides a-year in Paris. In country villages and towns, while the Clerk of the Peace was reading the King's Proclamation asminst immorality and gaming out of doors, his Majesty's Postmaster of the place was exciting the people to gamlng by sellins shares of tickets in the Lottery. Mr. THOfsIPSON sheered, from the evidence of Mr. Dish, the great evils arising from the lowest or. dens of the people dealing in the Lottery, which, he maintained, WAS a perfect cheat on the public. Servants and Merchants' Clerks had frequently taken their masters' property to enable them to embark in the Lottery.  Mr. LyTlLErotsl, in reply, contended, that the whole system of the I.o:tery was contrary to sound principle and policy. At this time of public distress, it was par.icultrly unjust to cheat the King's subjects out of their money ; and the manner in which that was dome kd to the destruction of public murals, which always constituted a great part of the strength of every country. " if {said lie) you want to raise money, do it rather by borrowing' n you have doom before, than by swindling." • The House tben divided—For the original motion 76—Against it 73—Majority 47. Mr. LUSHINGTON brutight up the Report of the Ordnance Estimates in Supply, which was agreed to.—Also the Report of the Cummittte, returnmending the extrusion of the Eau India Aet to Malta and Gibraltar, which wail agreed to, and a Bill ordered to be brought in. Mr. ARISLITHNOT brought up an account of the vtablishmeat of the Part-rdike, as far as it related to the emoluments of Clerks. • Laid on the table and ordered to he printed.. •I lie Naval Stores Bill wits teported, and ordered to be read a ithird tinse to-morrow.  The bitten of the Madhouses Bill was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third emu- on I huriday neat. 1 be bill to amend the lush ►'ease Preservation Act was read a Brat time, and ordered to be reed a second time on Monday. bar S. ROMILLY moved the second reading of the Gagne Preservation hull, which Mr. Bankes wished should be pnt off tall Thursday, on which die House divided, sad there being only 31 Members present, the Hou+e atijouated.  zvtAING