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to an annual lottery, for fupply. Wherever you turn, in the vicinity 

 of Dublin, you meet the villas and equipages of the obfcene and dirty 

 harpies, who have kept lottery offices, and enriched themfelves, with 

 the plunder of the poor. In every Itreet, the fliops of vice and per- 

 dition are announced, by feftive illuminations, and pompous infcriptions. 

 — The Government Lottery Office, as by Law ejiablijhed. — The Military 

 Lottery Office. — The Lion's Office. — Good Luck at Home. — T\it Rcpojtt or y 

 of Crtzfus. — The Temple of Fortune. — See what fqualid, famiflied throngs, 

 are vomited forth from yon fplendid faloon ! It is a lottery office. — 

 What multitudes of infatuated creatures croud thefe receptables of folly 

 and defpair, forgetful of their families, and their country, relinquifhing 

 the means of honed fubfiftence, dilTipating the property, which is not 

 their own';' and qualifying themfelves, for an untimely end, by the 

 fword of avenging juftice. — IVIerciful God ! all this is done, not only 

 with the connivance, but even under the fanftion of government! In- 

 dividuals, who minifter, for hire, to the depravity, and vices of man- 

 kind are defervedly branded with infamy, and become objefts of con- 

 tempt ; but, what fliall we fay of the fyftem of finance, which pan- 

 ders for the corruption of individuals, and endeavours to deprave the 

 morals of the people, that it may make their very vices a fource of 

 revenue ! 



Ireland has been fated to faffer, not from prodigality alone, but, 

 alfo, from mifconduft. Almofi; all her fchemes and fpeculations, the 

 linen manufafture, excepted, have been mifconceived, mifcondufted, and 

 confequently, in fome meafure, have proved abortive. They have 

 too frequently originated in ignorance, and mifreprcfentation, been car* 

 ried on, by the very genius of peculation, prodigality, and incapacity ; 

 and ended, in difappointment, bankruptcy, and fliame. The commer- 

 cial hiftory of Ireland, (fays Toung) is but the hiftory of jobs ; turn 

 over the Journals of the Houfe of Commons, for notices of canals, 

 ports, piers, fiOieries, mines, and manufaflures ; and you ■will find party 

 fpirit, eager rapacity, and unblulhing knavery, going hand in hand, 



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