The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1809-05-13 (London, England)

PIRCETA.I. said, that the question, whether there should be a lottery or not, was not now sahuutred to the ; when it was, he hoped that :railemen would torn in their minds, whether all the iticonvenience which had been so eloquently deso tilted that night, was not to attributer, to insurance, mid not to the lottery itself, He proposed to do away the insurance, by limitiog the th•uwing to one day. The Rouse should consider well, before it resolved to alashab one of.iti resources. Mr. Wttneaeoece said, that if his Right Honourable Friend had originally laid in his chino to a future discussion, he would have been willing to acquiesce ; however, as the subject was toroth', ed. he would offer a few words upon it. Ilis Right Honorable Friend seemed confident thaa.he would put a stop to the evils of insuraticet but he (Mr. W.) would beg to inculcate on his mind some distrust of his success, In what so many had • attempted with little success, lie thought it could not be remedied ; it was impossible to Violate the great moral principlts of the world, anvil by th• applietttivil of paillations and ipillideations remedy the evils that most result. lit &Ailed that it Seas merely from insurance the evils arose, the system of dividing tickets into small shares Was also injurious. The tins 717 unit vice produced upon society were not to be compensated lay any pee's'shay advantage. But even the pecuniary adventta4e lie denied ; industry was ruined, and the money that would be applied to munufailining purposes, drawn into a less productive fund. Sir T. TuaToe thought that illy grant of public money to Austria war useless now. Ile &sap"proved of the nianner.iis which the loan seas ctisposed. Mr. Ilusettsoe defended it. Sir S. Rossi thy said, that he would not go at lunge into the subject. lie wail surprise.' and illsappointed that the lottery should he again brought in among the number of their resources as • matter of eourse, without even any notice beitig taken of the report of a Committee upon that It hail [well said that the lottery was one of the axed resources of the country; that it was adopted in former administrations, and therefore might in this: that it was adopted in former wlanuistrations, was true; but, then, former administrations had not the tame experienciraii the present of the evils resulting Rom it. Theffenupe stood in the same situation with .resPeef to this, as it was souse time ago with.respect to the Shiest Trade, it was a source or misery •tel unsehief to the lower orders of society ; it deetrayed industry, counteracted enter, and   . _ . ,----_ . lhodgist toady unhappy victims to apt igoominious death. Ili* light ;too, Friend proposed to abolisli insurance; ii, his own opisiuwi.his Right /tom Friend flattered himself very much, but tyro if he did succeed, the evils produced by small share* would he innumerable, so thit the merit to which he aspired, Wall thnt of doing less miseli:ef, not of doing ally good. Some would• still be driven to rain, some to transportation, and bowie to suicide ; but all would not be resiuued from such terrible disasters. Ile 'Sir S. H.) had eisdestioured. some tune, ago to call the atteadion of the House to the criminal law ; the object of that WAS to prevent the commisoion of crimes, but what were they now about ? They were about to mike a law, whose opt.. ratio.s would be to ',support them. The evils en. tonal by the Lottery were not merely confined to the vice of gaining ; the evil was, the great nunsber of iuslustrions agents it call: d into action, to *edger, by advertisements and other means, the dupes of this artifice into destruction. Those evils existed to a greater. degree now than ever.— Formerly, Lotterie. were confined to the metropolis, hut sins they found their may into the cairntry,, whore they brought with them s ,rent 111 WIS of evil. lie was of °Minot' that the report would be lunch better sad attended to at alb than attended to in the way which his Right lion. Friend proposed : Whir reguletion was adopted, ass iinpression • would be made that something wits dune; the remeinbramis of the repeat would die away in at few years, anal the.evds of Site Lottery world return.' Mr. Yeagevsh arnd, that no new fact was brought td. light by the Committee. Other Adinirsistratious knew the disadvantages of the sestet's u. well us.the present. When be ass a member of the Admiuistnition over which LeactSidniouth I pre. sided, much had been done to rente:dy the client, vs, uteges. Mr.