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 country readers to escape the traps laid for them; which being properly attended to, will enable them rot only to avoid, but to detect, and bring to justice the violaters of the laws of their country.

There are as many kinds of gambling, as their are trades, and they move in as many spheres, from the most noble duke or dutchess, to the most abandoned chimney-sweeper; pretenders to honour and honesty, versed in various tricks and art, 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 twelvemonth ago that have been ruined by the pernicious itch of gaming. Young noblemen and gentlemen, just come to clear estates, and affluent fortunes, have in the hour of dissipation, been way laid by gamblers, and through their arts, frauds, and deceptions, have been stripped of the last shilling—Tradesmen and