hold the offenders to bail, for any sum not exceeding $2500."--All persons engaged in illegal insurance might also, under the authority of the 3d sect. of the last mentioned act, be deemed rogues and vagabonds, under the 17th Geo. II. c. 5.; and power was given to the magistrates before whom any person should be prosecuted as a rogue or vagabond, to commit the person so prosecuted to the house of correction, there to remain until the next general quarter sessions; and the justices are then to investigate the merits of the case, and to proceed according to the provisions contained in the 17th Geo. III. In consequence of the representations which were made, of the extent to which common informers, aided by attornies, had abused the powers given by the 2d sect. of the 27th Geo. III. c. 1. it was enacted, by an act passed in the 33d Geo. III. c. 62. sect. 38. "That from and atter the commercenient of the said act, it should not be law for any person to com)melice or prosecute any action for the recovery of penalties inflicted by any of the laws touching or concenig Lotteries, unless the same should be commenced in the name of His Majesty's Attorney General; " and by sect. 40 of the same act it was enacted, that if any person should be brought before two magistrates, and should be convic1od of any offer.ce against the statute of the 27th Geo. III. whereby he should be adjudged a rogue and vagabond, the said magistrates should commit such offender to the house of correction, there to remain for any space of time not exceeding six calendar months nor less than one month, and until sions of that act had been perverted to the purposes of extortion, and had been productive of very serious evil.-In order to counteract this new evil, the 30th Geo. III. c. 62, sect. 38 was passed, directing that no action should be commenced or prosecuted, except in the name of the Attorney General.—In consequence of this limitation, very few actions have, as appears from the evidence given to the committee, been commenced since the passing of the last mentioned act, although there is no doubt that Insurance in the Lottery is still carried on to a great extent. The evidence which has been given with respect to the practical inconveniences resulting from the provisions of the 27th Geo. III. proves, that it would be impolitic again to have recourse to the provisions of that act, and yet it is very difficult to seggest any middle cotuse between limiting the power of commencing actions to the Attor ney General, and giving that power to common informers. In the one case, there will probably be reason to complain of inactivity in entoring the law, and in the other, of a corrupt and mischievous perversion of it. It might perhaps be proper to authorize the police magistrates, and the magistrates of the city, to direct actions to be commenced, when evidence to warrant that direction shall have been given upon oath before them, This however would be a novel and perhaps an improvident power to grant, and considerable difficulty would occur in carrying the principle into effect.--By the 27th Geo. III all persons engaged in illegal insurance might be treated as rogues and vagabonds, under the 17th Geo. II. c. 5; and the ma the final period of the drawing of the Lottery,gistrates had the power of committing them in respect whereof such offence should be committed; and that the proceeding should be without appeal, and not removable by certiorari, or otherwise, into any court whatscever."-No evidence has been given to the committee to shew what were the difficulties which occurred in the conviction of offenders under the 22d Geo. III. c. 47, and the acts recited therein; but it appears from the preamble to the 27th Geo. III. c. 1, that difficulties had occurred, and that many evasions of that act had been put in practice. It is therefore reasonable to presume that the provisions of that act had been found insuffi cient to suppress the practice of insuring in the Lottery. In the hope therefore of more effectually suppressing the evil, the 27th Geo I. c. I was passed; but it appears from the evidence of Mr. Estcourt, and more especially from the letter from the UnderSherits of Middlesex addressed to him, and contained in his evidence, that the provi to the house of correction until the next general quarter sessions. It appears from the evidence given to the committee, that in the interval between the commitment and the trial, the witnesses were generally tampered with or removed, and conviction be came impossible. In order to obviate this difficulty, a power was given by 33 Geo. III. to two magistrates, to commit such persons to the house of correction for any period not exceeding six months nor less than one, and until the end of the drawing of the Lottery, in respect of which the offence had been committed; and the proceeding was without appeal, and not removable by certiorari or otherwise into any other court. From the enactment, it appears that the legislature has been under the necessity of granting very large and extraordinary powers to magistrates, in order to diminish the evil arising from in surance in Lotteries, and the circumstances which gave rise to it shew that no pecuniary means are wanting to enable those who are engaged in this practice to evade the punishment of the law. Your committee have to lament that it is not in their power to furnish to the House any more satisfactory re-. sult of this part of their labours: but when it is recollected that for many years past the attention of the most acute and ingenious persons, well acquainted with the whole of the Lottery system, both legai and fraudulent, under the auspices of successive ministers, have been directed to this object without success; that it has been represented to your committee, that the lottery and illegal insurances are inseparable; that the former cannot exist without the latter for its support; that a system of connivance in those acts which the law prohibits pervades all ranks concerned, from the persons contracting with government under the law, down to the meanest wretch employed in the violation of the law, and its most ordinary victim: your committee did not enter, upon this matter with much prospect of success, and do not therefore feel any very great disappointment at the issue; they are persuaded the house will not impute to them any want of attention to the subject, or zeal in the execution of their duty. In truth, the foundation of the Lottery is so radically vicious, that your committee feel convinced that, under no system of regulations which can be devised, will it be possible for parliament to adopt it as an efficient source of revenue, and at the same time divest it of all the evils and calamities of which it has hitherto proved so baneful a source.-A spirit of adventure must be excited amongst the community, ja order that government may derive from it a pecuniary resource. That spirit is to be checked at a certain given point, in order that no evils may attend it-the latter object has not hitherto been attained, with all the pains which have been bestowed upon it. Your committee are of opinion, that its attainment is impossible.-The ingenuity of persons interested in breaking the law, is always upon the watch for its new enactments, and has hitherto always baffled the sagacity of the legislature. Added to which, there can be no hope of greater purity amongst the persons employed to detect and bring the offenders to punishment than has hitherto been experienced, or than now exists. The statute book is burthened with regulations entirely repugnant to the spirit of the constitution, rigorous and oppressive in the extreme, which, if they are ever executed, fall only upon the ignorant and destitute, whilst the wealthy and more profligate hold them in utter contempt: and this unseemly state of things is allowed to cortinue, in order that the state may derive a certain annual sum from the partial encouragement of a vice, which it is the object of the law, in all other cases, and at all other times, most diligently to repress.-In the mean time your committee find, that by the effects of the Lottery, even under its present restrictions, idleness, dissipation, and poverty are increased, the most sacred and confidential trusts are betrayed, domestic comfort is destroyed, madness often created, crimes, subjecting the perpetrators of them to the punishment of death, are committed, and even suicide itself is produced, as will fully appear in the evidence submitted to the House. Such have been the constant and fatal attendants upon State Lotteries, and such, your committee have too good grounds to fear, will be their invariable attendants so loug as they are suffered, under whatever checks or regulations, to exist?-The question naturally occurs to your committee, whether any pecuniary advantage, however large or convenient, can compensate to a state for the amount of vice and misery thus necessarily produced by the levy of it?-The answer to this question is submitted to your wisdom and deliberation. But in order that the House may come to a decision, in every view so important to the interests and happiness of the commanity, without prejudice, your committee cannot conclude without expressing a decided opinion, that the pecuniary advantage derived from a State Lottery is much greater in appearance than in reality. When we take into consideration the increase of poor's rates arising from the number of families driven by speculations in the Lottery, whether fortunate or otherwise, to seek parochial relief, the diminished consumptionof exciseable articles during the drawings, and other circumstances deducible from the evidence, they may well be considered to operate as a large deduction from the gross. sums paid into the Exchequer by the contractors. On the other hand, the sum raised upon the people is much greater in propor tion to the amount received by the state, than in any other branch of revenue.-No mode of raising money appears to your committee so burthensome, so pernicious, and so unproductive; no species of adven-> ture is known, where the chances are so great against the adventurer; none where the infatuation is more powerful, lasting, and destructive. In the lower classes of society the persons engaged, whether suc-i cessful or unfortunate, are, generally speaking, either immediately or ultimately tempted to their ruin; and there is scarcely any. condition of life so destitute and abandoned, that its distresses have not been aggravated by this allurement to gaming, held forth by the state. Your committee are conscious that they are far from having exhausted all the grounds upon which it might be arged, that the Lottery ought not to be resorted to as a financial resource. The reasoning upon them appears to your committee to apply with peculiar force to the situation, the habits, and all the circumstances, of a great manufacturing and commercial nation, in which it must be dangerous, in the highest degree, to diffuse a spirit of speculation, whereby the mind is misied from those habits of continued industry which insure the acquisition of comfort and independence, to delusive dreams of sudden and enormous wealth, which most generally end in abject poverty and complete rain. If, after all that has been stated, and a perusal of the evidence, the House shall, think proper to sanction the adoption of the Lottery in any future session of parliament, your committee recommend to your consideration the various suggestions contained in their two reports for the alteration of the law, from which they are willing to hope, at least, that some beneficial selection may be made. But they cannot flatter themselves with the expectation that they have been much more fortunate than the able persons who have applied themselves with so much industry and so little success to the same subject, and to whom the public are indebted for their attempts to correct the evils which, in the opinion of your committee, can only be done away by the suppression of the cause from which they are derived. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that (in case it shall be thought expedient to continue state lotteries) the number thereof in each year should be limited to two lotteries, of not more than 30,000 tickets each; that the number of days allowed for drawing, instead of ten, the present number, should be brought back to eight for each lottery, the number fixed in 1802: that the number of tickets to be drawn each day should be uncertain, and left to the discretion of the commissioners of stamp duties, and kept secret till the close of the drawing each day, care being taken, as the lottery proceeds, not to leave too great a number undrawn on the latter days of drawing, but that one moiety or upwards be drawn on the four first days thereof-Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that no person should be aliowed to deal in lottery tickets without a licence for that purpose from the commissioners of stamp duties, and that the provision to that effect, in the 2d section of 22 Geo. III. cap. 47, repealed in 1802, and not renewed in the late acts, should be re enacted, with this addition, that every licenced lottery office keeper should be allowed to take out from the stamp office, in addition to his own licence, a limited number of licences for agits, with a stamp duty of about one-tenth of that paid by himself, in the proportion of two such agents' licences, for every 150 tickets shared by him at the stamp office; and that all persons should be forbidden, under a heavy penalty, to act as agents for any lottery office keeper, or to deal in lottery tickets, except persons so li cenced.-Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that in order to prevent per sons setting up licenced lottery offices as a cloak for carrying on illegal insurances, the number of tickets required to be shared in each lottery, in order to entitle the parties to a licence, should be extended from thirty to one hundred and fifty; and that such licences should be renewed for every lottery upon the parties continuing to share that number of tickets.-Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the limitation of hours during which lottery offices may be open for the transaction of business, viz. from 8 o'clock in the morning till 8 o'clock in the evening, enacted by 22 Geo. III cap. 47, and renewed in the lottery acts of 1802, and the three following years, but omitted in those of the two last years, ought in future to be re-enacted, without the exception therein made with respect to Saturday, when lottery offices ought to be shut at as early an hour as on other evenings.Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that all persons concerned in hawking about lottery tickets and shares for sale, in distributing hand-bills respecting lotteries otherwise than in the offices of licenced persons, in illuminating lottery offices for outside show, in exhibiting lottery schemes and bills upon boards, carts, or carriages, in town or country, should be subjected, on conviction before a magistrate, to a considerable penalty, and in default of payment to imprisonment for a limited period.-Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the exemption of li cenced lottery office keepers, from the ju risdiction of justices of the peace, and police magistrates, by inserting in sec. 34 of the last lottery act, the words, " if not licenced "to divide tickets into shares, in the man"ner aforesaid," is inexpedient, and ought to be discontinued; and that such lottery office keepers ought in future to be subjected in common with other persons to such jurisdiction. SPANISH REVOLUTION.-Proclamation, da Which is most precious, the gold of the mine, or the blood of man? If your civic virtue should not command the sacrifice, our mercenary interest will extort it. Your incorporation, sanctified by authority, your political existence, the possession of your property, your individual security, all depend upon the success of this war. dependence cannot be resigned until these Our inillustrious seminaries of sanctity and 'wisdom are surrendered—until these solid columns of religion and of the state tumble to the earth -ual the public right shall be annihilated and Spain itself subverted. Happy country! this day you receive from your favourite sons the most acceptable proofs of their tenderness and love, of their affection and gratitude, for the protection they have received from you through successive ages. To-day they return to you the riches they have received, for the splendour you have conferred, for your pious generosity, for your ardent zeal, in sustaining the religion and the customs of their ancestors,-those customs originating in the sublime morality of the Gospel, within whose sacred vase is inclosed, and will be for ever inclosed, the preservation of your empire and the power of your monarchy. Rich men of every description! Open your coffers, and discharge your duty to your country, and be confident that her ungrateful children will receive her anathema, and will not escape her vengeance. - Spaniards! we all defend one common cause. We are all passengers on board the ship Independence, which is already launched, and must either swim or sink, according as she is navigated by us. There is only one mean of salvation for us, and that is, that the whole nation, armed, basten to exterminate the banditti by whom we are invaded, and to punish them for their atrocities. Warriors! present yourselves in the field of glory. I do not ttempt to excite your valoar; you are paniards, and therefore, you are brave and onourable; but, in one respect, I may give you advice, although you are Spaniards. alone have conferred the title of hero-a A man, upon whom flattery and meanness recommend to you, in the name of your Country, the most severe discipline, and the of slaves who surround him, hive formed man full of ambition, and the petty band not implicit obedience to your commanders. the great project of subjugating us. Without discipline, you can neither have an Brry nor victory. Without discipline, valour | been the instruments of so ill-premeditated ception, perfidy, and treason, have hitherto suseless, and numbers impotent. Discipline supplics every thing, and without her less unite, and cause their most sacred rights an enterprise. The Spaniards will doubt her then rightly; for, alis, if you are conevery thing must be deficient. Appreciate quered, you will become the contempt of you see that these fierce pretenders rush upon nations, and the victims of tyranny. Do us? They outrage, they lay waste, they destroy; nothing can satiate their ferocity. But if, in your turn, you should become conquerors, let the martial spirit by which you are animated be restrained within the limits of reason and justice. Let humanity, of your banners; above all, let not the name compassion, and beneficence, be the device of Spaniard be stained by that iniquity and sacrilege which you detest in your enemies; and then your grateful country will confer upon you her abundant benefits, and your names will be engraved on the sublime edifice as conquerors, although you have not already of Spanish independence. I may address you vanquished. One province only, the cradle of heroes, the moment war was declared, filled the enemy with terror. Yes, Spaniards, from that happy instant the lion was attacked with a fever, from which he will never escape.-The victory you are about to accomplish will establish an alliance between Spain and the most powerful, the most wise, and the most polished nation of the earthwith the only country which this second The alliance that the infamous traitor broke Machiavel could not seduce-Great Britain ! for our misery and ruin; that assassin of our nation, that devouring monster, whose immense rapine provided an asylum for our enemy; that been generously restored by the only empire alliance, countrymen, has which has been able to maintain its honour and independence, and to which is reserved the lofty distinction of restoring enslaved Europe. Of what consequence then is the renowned power of Napoleon? The world itself depends upon the union of those two great nations.-F. P. G. D. C. An Address to his Army, by the most Excellent Signior D. Francis Xavier De Castanos, Commandant of the Camp at St. Roche, now General in Chief of the Army of the Andalusians. Supplement to No. 8, Vol. XIV-Price 10d. K De to be respected. We already know, that many provinces and communities are animated with the same heroism which we ourselves have displayed, from the moment that the veil was rent asunder which covered this most iniquitous project. It is extremely important, nay indispensible, that all of us should unite to secure the attainment of so noble an object. Each and all ought to contribute all that lies in his power. This is an obligation dictated by the heart, from the moment that we remark its first emotiɔɔs. — Generous and heroic inhabitants of this happy town, you require not the aid of eloquence to stimulate your ardent souls. You have given, and are at this moment giving sufficient examples. Rush to the field of honour in quest of our brothers, who are soldiers by profession, that they may instruct you in the first elements of the military art, on which strength and victory principally depend. In the mean time, be assured, that your families will not be redu ced to want or beggary. The opulent ranks of this place will provide for your subsistence. Fear not that the wealthy will spare their treasures. They will deposit all their services of plate in the hands of government and when they eat and drink out of wooden spoons and earthen vessels, they will enjoy the pleasing satisfaction, that those instruments of mere luxury are destined to the defence of our religion, our king, our country, and our liberty.-Ministers of the sanctuary, be you the first to preach, and to give the example of this important confidence. Be persuaded that both ecclesiastical and civil laws admit of selling the property of the church in circumstances of such urgent necessity as the present. Convince the faithful that you are penetrated with this genuine doctrine, which, in times not so calamitous, was taught by St. Bernard; for he said, it was not conformable with our holy religion, that the church should flourish in its possessions whilst her poor were necessitous; that she should decorate her walls with gold, and abandon her children to nakedness.-And you, mothers, worthy of so many heroes, who know how to excite the most noble and heroic passions of the human heart, hasten to present to government your jewels, your rings, and ornaments. Fear not the decay of your attractive graces; you will always be agreeable; and though your exterior decorations should be less conspicuous, you will acquire such a degree of mental perfection and heroism as to attract the esteem of virtuous men, and to command respect even from the weak, the vicious and the progate.-F. X. C. Progress of King Joseph.-From the French Papers. Bribiesca, July 16-This morning his Majesty set out from Miranda. He was accompanied by the municipality and the commissioner of the customs to the boundary of their jurisdiction.- Not only did the inhabitants testify their joy by letting off fire-works, and giving concerts during the whole of the night, but also on his majesty's departure this morning they repeated these different festivities. On the road from Miranda to Bribiesca, his majesty received the congratulations of the magistrates of the various places through which he passed, and on his arrival in this town, he received those of the Alcaide, the Municipality, the Chapters, the Deacon or Areh-Priest, 'and every person of distinction, all of whom were anxious to be introduced to him. His majesty afterwards retired as usual to attend to business. In the evening there were an illumination and fire-works. Burgos, July 16. His majesty this morning continued his journey from Bribi esca. He gave audience on the way to all the magistrates of the different places he passed through, who were solicitous of the honour of addressing his majesty. — The king reached this city at eight in the moroing. A triumphal arch, prepared in ex pectation of his arrival, was erected at the entrance by which he had to come. The garrison was drawn up on each side of the street, the windows of the houses were magnificently decorated, and the firing of cannon and ringing of bells contributed 10 make his majesty's entrance splendid in the extreme-Several richly-caparisoned char gers were in readiness, in case his majesty had chosen to enter the city on horseback. All the officiating servants of the royal household waited upon his majesty. Soon after his arrival his majesty gave audience to the archbishop, the chapter, intendant cor regidor, the consulate, the ecclesiastical col leges, and spiritual communities, together with a number of persons of distinction re sident in the city and environs. His majesty conversed a considerable time with each of them; entering into the particular subjects which related to their respective functions. -Having taken up his residence at the archbishop's palace, which adjoins the cathedral, his majesty, soon after the levee, went to see the cathedral, where he was received under a canopy, with all the solemnities justly due to, and usually observed with respect to royal personages.-At six in the evening his majesty again gave audience to the above-mentioned persons, and also to a great number of officers, who had the |