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(4) country readers to eſcape the traps laid for them; which, being properly attended to, will enable them not only to avoid, but to detect and bring to juſtice the violaters of the laws of their country.

T are as many kinds of gambling as there are trades, and they move in as many ſpheres, from the moſt noble duke or ducheſs, to the moſt abandoned chimney-ſweeper; pretenders to honour and honeſty, verſed in various tricks and arts, by which many among both nobility and gentry have ſquandered away their fortunes in accompliſhing themſelves for the epithet of a complete Gambler, or, in the true ſenſe of the word, an expert Gambler.—If inſtances were neceſſary to prove the aſſertion, I could produce hundreds within my own knowledge, many not above a twelve month ago, that have been ruined by the pernicious itch for gaming. Young noblemen and gentlemen, juſt come to clear eſtates, and affluent fortunes, have, in the hour of diſſipation, been waylaid by gamblers, and, through their arts, frauds, and deceptions, have been ſtripped of the laſt ſhilling.—Tradeſmen, and others,