SOO Continuation of the Delusi 



by Dr. Bell and Mr. I,;)nc:istcT, offer 

 ©pportuDitics fur raising our national 

 cliaraoler as iiu iiik-llcclniil, moral, and 

 political peo|ilt!, 1 could not hut be anx- 

 ious to siiliinit to the readers of your 

 cxteiisively-circulalod nii.scellaiiy, my 

 sicntinicnts on a suljjcct so iinjiortant ; 

 and siiall hope to see, tiom some abler 

 hand, fuither remarks respecting the 

 gieatest possible advan(ao-c to be de- 

 xived from their plan of communicating- 

 fcuman knowiedj^e; or, in other words, 

 a stronger light thrown upon tiie very 

 important quesiion ol^ — Wiiat would be 

 tlie ptoperest system of tuition for the 

 «ijis of tVeemcn? Thos. Eusby. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



ON the Wednesday following my late 

 communication to you respecting 

 liotteries, there was a debate in the 

 House of Con)!uons, from which the 

 public may gatiier the follow ing imjior- 

 fciat facts: — tiiat this debisive system is 

 Jpractised on us six times in the year; 

 that it extracts liuni our pockets one 

 miliion of money ; that the [irocceds to 

 tlie treasury is only 5a8,240/. ; that it is 

 one of the sources of patronage by w'lich 

 ionv individuals, under the title of gene- 

 ral couiniissioiicrs, receive 6C0/. each, 

 *ix who receive 300/. and not less than 

 twenty-one who receive from 200?. to 

 150/. per annum eanh ; that it is a power- 

 ful means of making dupes of the poor; 

 aud, in this respect, it was said by one 

 ,«f the members to resemble the devil, 

 who seduces to sin, aud then punishes 

 the sinner. 



The following resolutions were moved 

 and seconded : — 



" 1st. That, by the estahlishiiipnt of state 

 Icttcjies, the goveinment of tliis country 

 J>as encouraged and provoked a spirit ot 

 gambling, wliich, degrading the character 

 of the people, and weakening their habits 

 of industry, niiut abate the mural stiengdi 

 of the slate, and ultimately diminish its 

 tiiianeial resources. 



"2ndly. That such lotteries have fiirllicr 

 l»een attended with peculiar evils, which 

 the severest ngiilatinns have failed to ex- 

 -tingnish, and which have been lepresscd 

 .only by laws whose provisions are arbitrary 

 and unconstitutional, and their enforce- 

 ment liable to the greatest abuse. 

 . "Sdly. That the House, tlieietbre,v'oidd 

 ,ro longer authorize the e«tab]ishinfiit of 

 state lotteries, under auy system of regula- 

 tion whatever." 



Excellent as these resolutipus arc, the 

 house deciiU;d, b^ a inajoiit^ of votes, 



re System of Lotteries. [Oct. 1 , 



against tlicm ; and thus, instead of abo- 

 lishing so shameful a system, lotteries 

 are contiiuied as usual, and arc likely to 

 be continued, until the House of Com- 

 mons is composed of different men, and 

 they adopt principles opposite to those 

 which have hitherto marked their ccm- 

 pliaid extravagant career. 



I have endeavouied to trace tliis sys- 

 tem to its sonice, and I cannot find one 

 feature that will recommend itany longer 

 to our favour; the pages of superstition 

 produce innumerable instances of things 

 being decided by lot, but, I believe, the 

 first application of it to the services of a 

 slate originated at Genoa ; from thence 

 it sf)rcad ail over Italy ; and, as the Popes 

 of Rome have never liesit;vted adopting 

 any measure by which they could the 

 more easily creep into t!ic pockets of 

 their people, they soon availed themselves 

 of it to increase their revenues. Tho 

 earliest mentioned in our history was 

 one in 15G9; it consisted of 400,000 lots, 

 at 10*. each lot ; the profits were to go 

 towards repairing the " havens" of this 

 kingdom ; there was another in the year 

 1612, for the plantation of English colo- 

 nies in Virginia: both these were drawn 

 at the west end of St. Paul's Cathedral. 



We have now three in a year, deter- 

 mined at six diflerent drawings ; the con- 

 tract prices have varied within the last 

 ten years fiom 14/. to 19/; and the sel- 

 ling price of a sixteenth from 28 shillings 

 to 40*. Thus a lottery of CO.OOO tickets 

 will realize to the vendors 60,000/. Np 

 one need wonder that every corner is 

 pasted with lottery pufl's, our hands 

 crammed during a street's walk with dc- 

 huivc schemes, and the most shameful 

 compliments of the most infamous mea- 

 sures continually offered to a confiding 

 and ignorant multitude. 



Market-place, Warwick; ■,,- ^ 



A,,' A \\. Goodman. 



•«• The number of criminals at our 

 Midsummer sessions was exactly lOO. 



Enuluin in my last. — For " heathen godaf 

 read " leathern gods," 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magasim. 



SIR, 



OE all the parts of the medical pro- 

 fession or practice, that of the 

 accoucheur must be considered the moat 

 sacred — the least fit to be subjected to 

 legislative meddlings or enactments. 

 Yet, intheSurgeon'sBill, intended toltc 

 introduced into Parliament in the next 

 session, it is jjioposed to be enacted, 

 " W-ljcieas siugica,! aid is frcquei>tly re- 

 quired 



