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oftfrttvUa maa must not be sheer and unredemptjon ^ ble kypocrifjy 1 The history of CrockforcJ , wha i » evidently $ 019 . 0 of gepiua iu his way , is worth reading . He was ori g inally a Small fishmonger . We are presented with a document in the shape of one of his * ' bills" at that time , for " souls , sprats ,
vuUma , red-herrings , and makerils , " amounting to 3 s . 5 d . H $ is evidently a natural mathematician in the finest degree , and this added to great perseverence and a total absence of any moral principles ( except when not interfering with business ) hag lifted him to his present equivocally high position . For an accpuntofthe other gaming-houses—all of which are minutely " worked out "—we must refer our readers to the book . The
author s picture of the extent to which gaming is carried on in the metropolis , and his observations on the strength of the pa $ sipn and its consequences , are as true as they are appalling . As , to putting down the gambling houses , — " pt It be true , and I fear it is , that the majority of the members of Crockfdrd's are noblemen and gentlemen belonging to either House of
Parliament }—then it would be really too much to expect that they would assist in passing a law which they would most probably be the first to aid in breaking . I suspect that if we wait until some such parties as the Mdtqms of Hertford in the Lords , or Mr Thomas Duncoinbe in the Commons , legislate for the extinction of gaming in the metropolis , we shall have to wait until doomsday . "—Vol . i . pp . 219 , 220 .
The first volume contains masterly expositions of the various clasps of society , to which we shall probably return in a future flutnbdr . We now pass to the second volume . It eowuences with an account of the newspaper press . This has been attempted at different times in sundry magazines wili very various degrees of success . We thinJt that the author of these volumes has collected more authentic facta
connected with the mercantile and mechanical arrangemeuts thkn any who have previously undertaken the difficult subject . To st > rne of his opinions , touching the sterling value of certain wtitiqgs &nd their degree of influence on the public mind , we m ^ vopject / but it must be ad mitted that he seems to have done iu $ 4 > eftt , tQ tell the truth , according to his own judgment , without fear or favour . If this be not all that can be required of an author , it i $ at least a very high and rare merit . He begins with the Times , and ascribes to it all the weight and extent of
4 nfiueace it once undoubtedly possessed . As an instauce of its circulation among all parties and shades of parties , he observq * that evei > those who are ' « most hearty ia their abuse pf it , arp Ha ^ nost constant readers , " But is not this the w £ j ^ rxM * V \^ effect ? He bj ^ vs that Cobbett vitu ^ I ^ P i \ S * k tyf $ 4 giitev 9 ' " soipetiin ^ s for mapy conse-9 Utive ffe ^ kSj ^ aija yet ne was a regular readier of the Ti * ic * S *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/54/
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