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others pervert and misapply , provided we injure no one by it , are really creditable . The public will say that the money thus acquired is richly deserved , that it is much better to let contributors have value received , than to be put under the obligation which gratuitous supplies impose /* Having said thus much , I have no doubt but the worthy Doctor would return to the sedes
beatorum perfectly satisfied . — Lotteries , Mr , Editor , however appalled your Anonymites may be by the bare mention of them , I conceive to be , like many other tilings , cards , p lays , raees , billiards , &c , innocent or immoral
according as they are used . If I sit down to cards , and afterp laying for a stake which I can well afford to lose , fortunately rise up a winner , will any one say that the Unitarian Fund could not receive such money if presented to it ,
without being defiled and demoralized ? Or if I make a small bet upon a successful horse , and give my winnings to the Fund , would any bad effect be likely to accrue from it ? Dr . Johnson defines
gaming to be playing extravagantly for money ; a gamester , one viciously addicted to play ; ( and a gambler , a cheating gamester . Will either of your Correspondents presume to say that a
person cannot play for money at any game without playing extravagantly , or that he cannot be addicted to play , without being viciously so and without cheating . If no purchaser of tickets or shares of tickets were to expend more from time to time than he could
well spare , and so far from wishing or designing to injure any one , or to make a bad use of his success , had resolved to apply it to the purposes of benevolence , how , in the name of common
sense , could he be accused of gambling > Mr . Antigame needed not to have reminded me of what has been urged in- the Senate against lotteries ; I was well aware of it $ but I maintain that all that was there stated applied to the abuses made of lotteries . If
men will venture more than they can part with * without injurinff themselves or their families , if they will pawn their clothes or household furniture when rich prizes , remain in the wheel , or if
servants will rob tfceii : mg&KGt&fo purchasetickets , or if unlucky-adventurers wll lay violent hand ^ upon themselvea , aft& : ^ tto ^ wtevei ifedu ^ d thdil ^ liaciciilies to ? the t deepest distress , nbfchiiig' can be
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ipiore deplorable yb&ty : p&mtm . manifest , that aU these are grofsfl abuses of lotteries r and does it follow that because many make such abuses , thjat no one can possibly make a right arid beneficial use of them ? < - ' - ' ; ; C V ^ -
I grant that if such be i ^ Hy ^ tBe infatuation of the people of this kingdom , that they will almost certainly abuse and pervert lotteries , and such evils as I have stated ma ^ with the greatest probability , be always expected to arise out of them , they had better be laid
aside , and I should vote with the truly excellent Mr . Whitbread , for their never being had recourse to as ways and means to raise the Government supplies ; but still , if lotteries are bad only when they are abused , as from my conscience I believe to be the
case , then there can be nothing immoral in any one ' s venturing his money in them , provided he keeps perfectly free from such abuses . My main object in writing the letter which has called down upon me such unsparing censure , was to save our distant friends
the trouble and expense of applying to us for assistance at present , and the reason assigned for this suspension of our auxiliary powers was the demand we had at this time for all the money , and-more than all the money , we could raise within ourselves . The
confounding a Congregational with a Fellowship Fund , is a charge against us which no person could have made , unless strongly predisposed to accuse' . Our Fellowship Fund has been in several instances
drawn upon for the benefit of remote applicants , and besides other issues , an annual subscription from it has been twice made to the new Association for the Protection of the Civil Rights of Unitarians . Under more favourable
auspices than we now enjoy , we hope to resume our contributions , and I trust it will always afford us pleasure to gratify the reasonable wishes of our brethren . Having only one voice in
deciding upon applications made to us , it vvas not in my power to answer ^ tliferri in the affirmative , hut I can trul yslf ^ , without meaning to cast the a | i ^^ t reflection upon my coUfea ^ i ^ llMat J should have been exceedin ^ y-HaB ^ y to have complied witfc i&e ^ lS petitions , arid wtoU' ^||^ iip& I ^ say I ¦ wouj ^ l ¦ h ^ # ^|§| 5 r in | i | ia&ed fcy subscription t ^ ebl ^^ ittd * Wen quadruply , if the reWntfould have xjon-
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Mr . Brewne on hik Pfibposalstyor the Unitarian Fund . 6 & 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/23/
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