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"Well,―a Lottery he's plann'd, with an union

rare,

Where money and wine each come in for a share ;

There are three thirty thousands to gratify you; And the twelve pipes of wine, sirs, for BACCHUS will do.''

Says BACCHUS to PLUTUS-" Then give us your hand,

I'll tipple his wine, till no more I can stand; And as Jove has inform'd us there's money enough,

Why you, Mister PLUTUS, can finger the stuff.

"Besides, I have heard, or my memory's fail'd, How greatly last Lott'ry his luck has prevail'd;

The three twenty thousands, he sold (the rum fish!)

Thea let us be off, and buy tickets of BISH!" Derry down. "BISH," who in the former bill had subjoined, in plain prose, that "lotteries must end for ever," likewise issued the following

DUTIES ON WINES.

The minister in reducing the duty, so that wines may be sold at one shilling per bottle cheaper, has done much to increase the spirits of the people; at the same time he has adopted another measure that will in a few months DESTROY THE FREE TRADE of every person in the kingdom to obtain for a small sum a great fortune in a few weeks, by having determined to abolish Lotteries, which must soon end for ever; therefore, the present is one of the last opportunities to buy, &c.

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"BISH," according to the old plan, ever ready to serve his friends," issued THE AMBULATOR'S GUIDE TO THE LAND OF PLENTY. BY PURCHASING A TICKET,

In the present Lottery, You may reap a golden harvest in Cornhill, and pick up the bullion in Silver

street; have an interest in Bank-build

ings; possess a Mansion-house in Goldensquare, and an estate like a Little Britain; pour red wine down Gutter-lane; never be in Hungerford-market; but all your life continue a May-fair.

BY PURCHASING A HALF, You need never be confined within Lon

don-wall, but become the proprietor of many a Long-acre; represent a Borough, or an Aldermanbury; and have a snug share in Threadneedle-street.

BY PURCHASING A QUARTER, Your affairs need never be in Crookedlane, nor your legs in Fetter-lane; you may avoid Paper-buildings; steer clear of the King's-bench, and defy the Marshalsea; if your heart is in Love-lane, you may soon get into Sweetings-alley, obtain your lover's consent for Matrimony-place, and always live in a High

street.

BY PURCHASING AN EIGHTH, You may ensure plenty of provision for Swallow-street; finger the Cole in Coleman-street; and may never be troubled with Chancery-lane; you may cast anchor in Cable-street; set up business in a Fore-street, or a Noble-street; and need never be confined within a Narrow-wall.

You

BY PURCHASING A SIXTEENTH,

may live frugal in Cheapside; get merry in Liquorpond-street; soak your hide in Leather-lane; be a wet sole in Shoe-lane; turn maltster in Beer-lane, or hammer away in Smithfield.

In short, life must indeed be a Longlane, if it's without a turning. Therefore if you are wise, without Mincing the matter, be Fleet and go Pall-mall to Cornhill or Charing-cross, and enroll your name in the Temple of Fortune, BISH's.

LOTTERY FOR WOMEN IN INDIA.

Advertisement.

BE IT KNOWN, that Six FAIR PRETTY YOUNG LADIES, with two sweet and engaging young children, lately IMPORTED FROM EUROPE, having roses of health blooming on their cheeks, and joy sparkling in their eyes, possessing amiable manners, and highly accomplished, whom the most indifferent cannot behold without expressions of rapture, are to be RAFFLED FOR next door to the

British gallery. SCHEME: twelve tickets, at twelve rupees each; the highest of the fascinating, &c."* three throws, doubtless, takes the most

Communicated by J. J. A. F. from a Calcutta newspaper of Sept. 3, 1818.

The four engravings on this page, with the lines beneath them, are from other

Lottery bills.

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"BISH, contractor for another Lottery," during the proceedings in parliament respecting the queen, availed himself of a celebrated answer by one of the witnesses at the bar of the house of lords, and issued the following:

NON MI RICORDO!

OR,

A few Questions on a new Subject.
QUESTION.

Good Signor, if your memory serves,
A question I would ask or two;
Then pray may I the favour beg,
That you will answer, if I do?
ANSWER.

Non mi ricordo, I can't say,

Whether my mem'ry serves or no ;
But let me hear them first, I pray ;

What I remember you shall know.
QUESTION.

Since Lotteries in this realm began,
And many good ones there have been,
Do you suppose the oldest man,

So good a Scheme at this has seen?
ANSWER.

Non mi ricordo, surely no;

Comparisons are idle tales,
For such a Lottery Scheme as this,
I must confess my memory fails.
QUESTION.

Now what peculiar features, pray,
Distinguish this from all the rest?
And why do all the people say,
“Unquestionably this is best!"
ANSWER.

Non mi ricordo, 'tis in vain

For me its merits now to say;

To tell them all 'twould take, 'tis plain,
From now until the Drawing Day.
QUESTION.

Its merits I will gladly own,

But folks will questions ask, and pray If your opinion is requir'd,

Just tell me, sir, what you would say?

ANSWER.

Non mi ricordo: read the Scheme, One word will answer all your wish 'Tis BISH's plan, 'tis BISH's theme,

It must be good, 'tis plann'd by BISH.

"BISH," in the annexed, puffs at Queen Anne's prize of "5000 pounds," as "so small." This may be imagined to have been asserted under poetical licence; for, in fact, 5000/. in those days was almost equal to the largest prize in modern Lotteries.

THE

Bonne Bouche of Lotteries.

Tune. "MODERATION AND ALTERATION." In the reign of Queen Anne, when first Lott'ries were invented,

With very few Prizes Advent'rers were contented;

The largest of which, (so small were Fortune's bounds,) "Paid in faire Plate," was but 5000 Pounds. Moderation! Moderation!

O, what a wonderful Moderation!
Soon 50004 was deem'd but a small Bait,
And 10,000 then was the Great Prize of State:
Twenty follow'd soon after, then Thirty-
bold push!

And at last 40,000 was made the Bonne
Bouche!
Alteration! Alteration! &c.
Now the Lott'ry Contractors a New Plan pur-

sne,

All former outdoings resolv'd to outdo;
And have struck out a Plan to increase Public
Gain,

By which, One Hundred Thousand Pounds you may obtain.

Temptation! Temptation ! &c. If two Numbers are drawn in a specifi'd way, 1000 Whole Tickets the Holders repay; And a 1000 Whole Tickets a Chance may reveal,

Of all the Great Prizes contain'd in the Wheel.

Admiration! Admiration! &c. O, what a subject for Admiration! Now if you could get them, and 'twouldn't be

strange,

For the rest of your life, how your fortune would change!

A Coach, a Town-House, and a CountryHouse, too!

Leading Man in the County!-O, wou'dn't that do?

Fascination Fascination! &c. Then of Loans, and such fat things, such slices

you'd gain!

Then a Member of Parliament's Seat you'd obtain !

Next Knighthood-then Baronet-and in a short space,

A Peerage" My Lord!" and at last, "Please your Grace!"

Exaltation! Exaltation! &c.

Such things are quite flattering, and surely

such are,

Consider, what Power Wealth and Honour But a Pleasure far greater remains to declare;

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This is a Wonder working age, by all it is agreed on,

And Wonders rise up ev'ry day, for public gaze to feed on;
To sketch a few 'tis my intent, while now I'm in the mind, sir,

And crown them all with one you'll own, will leave them far behind, sir.
Then push along; for something new, the public taste will dash on :
For Wonders now are all the rage, and novelty's the fashion.
The juggling Indians show such feats, a lady's taste 'twould shock it;
They swallow swords, and swallow too the money from our pocket,
A gentle fair, by fear unmov'd, with courage she so fraught is,
On red-hot iron skips a dance, and bathes in aqua-fortis.

Then push along; for something new, the public taste will dash on ;
For Wonders now are all the rage, and novelty's the fashion.

The greatest Wonder yet to tell, which all the world surprizes,
Is BISH's famous Lottery, and BISH's wondrous prizes,

Three fifty thousands grace the scheme, which yet remain undrawn, sir,
A wonder which was never known since any man was born, sir.

Then push along, to BISH's go! of fortune he's the man, sir,
A vote of thanks, nem. con. we'll pass for such a noble plan, sir.†

"BISH" when, what he called, "The Last Lottery of All!" had arrived, very cavalierly turned round on the government; and, on the eve of becoming a candidate for a seat in the house of commons, paid his compliments to his future colleagues in the following address:

TO THE PUBLIC.

At the present moment, when so many articles, necessary to the comforts of the poorer classes, are more or less liable to taxation, it may surely be a question, whether the abolition of Lotteries, by which the state was a gainer of nearly half a million per annum, be, or be not, a wise measure!

'Tis true, that, as they were formerly conducted, the system was fraught with some evil. Insurances were allowed upon the fate of numbers through protracted drawings, and as the insurances could be effected for very small sums, those who could ill afford loss, imbibed a spirit for gambling, which the legislature very

wisely most effectually prevented, by adopting, in the year 1809, the present improved mode of deciding the whole Lottery in one day.

As it is at present conducted, the Lottery is a voluntary tax, contributed to only by those who can afford it, and collected without trouble or expense; one, by which many branches of the revenue are considerably aided, and by means of which hundreds of persons find employ ment. The wisdom of those who at this time resign the income produced by it, and add to the number of the unem ployed, may, as I have observed in a former address, surely be questioned.

Mr. Pitt, whose ability, in matters of financial arrangement, few will question, and whose morality was proverbial, would not, I am bold to say, have yielded to an outcry against a tax, the continuing of which would have enabled him to let the labourer drink his humble beverage at a reduced price, or the industrious artisan to pursue his occupation by a cheaper

+ This and other of the bills quoted are lent by our correspondent, J. J. A. F. from his Lottery

Charity and Patriotism.
Collections,

light. But we live in other times-in the age of improvement!-To stake patrimonial estates at hazard or ecarté in the purlieus of St. James's is merely amusement, but to purchase a ticket in the Lottery, by means of which a man may gain an estate at a trifling risk, is-immoral ! nay, within a few hours of the time I write, were not many of our nobility and senators, some of whom, I dare say, voted against Lotteries, assembled betting thousand upon a horse race?

In saying so much, it may be thought that I am somewhat presumptuous, or that I take a partial view of the case. It is, however, my honest opinion, abstracted from personal considerations, that the measure of abolishing Lotteries is an unwise one, and as such I give it to that public, of whom I have been for many years the highly favoured servant, and for whose patronage, though Lotteries cease, my gratitude will ever continue.

As one of the last contractors, I have assisted in arranging a scheme, &c! &c!! &c !!!

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insinuating and tempting allurements.
Many philanthropic individuals
in the Senate,

at various times for a series of years,
pointed out their baneful influence
without effect,

His Majesty's Ministers still affording them their countenance and protection.

The British Parliament
being at length convinced of their
mischievous tendency,

HIS MAJESTY GEORGE IV., on the 9th July, 1823,* pronounced sentence of condemnation on the whole race;

from which time they were almost NEGLECTED BY THE BRITISH PUBLIC. Very great efforts were made by the Partisans and friends of the family to excite

the public feeling in favour of the last of the race, in vain :

It continued to linger out the few remaining moments of its existence without attention or sympathy, and finally terminated its career unregretted by any virtuous mind.

W.P.

Interesting Addenda.

A few remarkable facts, which were omitted in the proper order of narration, are now inserted.

ANCIENT LOTTERY,

About 1612 king James I.," in special favour for the plantation of English colonies in Virginia, granted a Lottery to be held at the west end of St. Paul's ; whereof one Thomas Sharplys, a taylor of London, had the chief prize, which was four thousand crowns in fair plate."+

A DOUBLE MISTAKE.

Old Baron d'Aguilar, the Islington miser, was requested by a relation to purchase a particular ticket, No. 14,068, in the Lottery to be drawn in the year 1802, (but which was sold some few days before). The baron died on the 16th of March following, and the number was the

The day the royal assent was given to the last. Lottery act. † Baker's Chronicle.

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