The Virginia Gazette

Event Date

Nov. 16

Key Persons

Outcome

died in an hour or two after apoplectic fit

Event Details

The Hon. Col. Charles Pawlet, Esq; to whom the Prize of 10,000 l. belonged, that was drawn last Thursday, was seized with an Apoplectic Fit the same Day, just as he was going out from his Country-House for London, and died in an Hour or two after. Whether this Gentleman had yet received the News of his good Fortune in the Wheel, we don't know, nor is it material: But on this Occasion we cannot help recollecting that the great Prizes in these Lotteries have done no Good to those to whom they have fallen; witness, a Person who kept a noted Public House, or Tavern, at Greenwich, who having in one of the late Lotteries got 10,000 l. set up for a Gentleman, and in two or three Years brewed away all his Money, and at last was forced for a Livelihood to hire himself as a Servant in a Cook's Shop, in the same Place where he had lived in Splendor, or Extravagance. Another Instance was an eminent Linnen Draper, whom Fortune smiled upon, threw 10,000 l. in his Lap, and then left him to shift for himself; and he made so good Use of the Dame's Kindness, that in a little Time he drowned himself. A third in the like Case, left off his Business, ran mad for two or three Years, and then had Wit enough to follow it again, when the blind Goddess's Favours had reduced him to worse Circumstances than he was in before.