CHAPTER IX.

Winners of prizes--Attempt to put down the practice of insuring--Steps taken to prevent it--Specimen handbill --Bish, the lottery office-keeper--Lottery for the “Pigot” diamond--Lottery-office agencies--Shortening the time of drawing the lottery--Story of Baron d’Aguilar 118

The Boydell Lottery--Bowyer’s “Historic” Lottery 133

Launching a lottery--“The City” Lottery for houses--Poetic handbills thereon--Parliamentary Committee on the lottery --Report and evidence 147