Although it is impossible to be perfectly accurate in any estimate which can be formed; for in this, as in all other cases where calculations are introduced in this Work, accuracy to a point is not to be expected; yet when all circumstances are considered, there appear just grounds to suppose that the following Statement, placing the whole in one connected point of view, may convey to the Reader no very imperfect idea of the vast and unparalleled extent to which this horrid mischief had arrived; and to which, if not closely watched, it may yet rise once more. GAMING. Persons Money Yearly attached. played aggregate for lost and nightly. won. £. £. 1. 7 Subscription Houses open one-third of the Year, or 100 nights _suppose_ 1000 2000 1,400,000 2. 15 Houses of a superior class one-third of the Year, or 100 nights ---- 3000 2000 3,000,000 3. 15 Houses of an inferior class one-half of the Year, or 150 Nights ---- 3000 1000 2,225,000 4. 6 Ladies' Gaming Houses 50 Nights ---- 1000 2000 600,000 --------- 7,215,000 FRAUDULENT INSURANCES IN THE LOTTERY. 350 Insurance Offices at 100_l._ a day average, during the 33 days of the Irish Lottery 1,155,000 400 Insurance Offices at 150_l._ a day average, during the 33 days[38] of the English Lottery 1,980,000 --------- 3,135,000 ---------- Total 10,460,000 ---------- [Footnote 38: The longer the Lottery continues, the greater the evil. A Lottery of 60,000 Tickets is therefore a much greater evil than one of 50,000: and that in a ratio more than proportionate to the numbers in each.]