Daily National Intelligencer

On the 20th April last an attempt was made in the British House of Commons, to abolish Lotteries, in toto. In the course of his remarks on the subject, Mr. Lyttleton could not give his assent to one particular item in the Chancellor's budget—the Lotteries. It was, said he, most extraordinary, that at the time the Right Hon. Gentleman was voting one million sterling for the building of churches, he was most inconsistently setting up new Lotteries, or rather establishing gaming houses all over the country. The right Hon. Gentleman had described himself as a hardened sinner—now on the contrary, he (Mr. Lyttleton) thought him a soft saint, and one that bent his conscience to suit the ends of his policy—(laughter.) Differing, however, as he did in his notions of morality from the Right hon. gentleman, he would still persist in his intention of pressing the abolition of lotteries on the attention of the House.