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 fatal passion find it sufficiently gratified by the lotteries, the most pernicious manner in which it is possible to raise money from the nation.

While this sheet was in the Printer's hands, a more extraordinary instance of frantic or drunken gambling than either of the foregoing, appeared in the London newspapers. It follows here as related in theTimesthe Times [sic] of April 17, 1812

"On Wednesday evening an extraordinary investigation took place at Bow Street. Croker, the officer, was passing the Hampstead Road; he observed at a short distance before him two men on a wall, and directly after saw the tallest of them, a stout man about six feet high, hanging by his neck from a lamp-post, attached to the wall, being that instant tied up and turned off by the short man. This unexpected and extraordinary sight astonished the officer; he made up to the spot with all speed, and just after he arrived there,