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udbury_ Lottery, No. Two, hereby notify the Public, That they shall commence Drawing said Lottery, on Friday the Thirtieth Day of May Instant, at the House of Mr. _William Bryant_ Inholder in said _Sudbury._ --> A few Tickets are yet to be had of the Managers, and _Samuel Hardcastle_ and the Printers hereof. _Boston Gazette,_ May, 1760. * * * * * Some remarks in reference to supplying Bibles in the eastern part of Massachusetts by means of a lottery. MR. RUSSELL, A FRIEND to religion, and one who wishes the memorial of a certain respectable society may have a happy effect, but a zealous enemy to lotteries, asked a member of an important body, the other day, whether he thought the General Court would grant a Lottery for the purpose of supplying every person in the eastern part of the Commonwealth with a bible, who is unable to purchase one, and for the pay of a missionary.--Let not the serious reader frown, as that member did; for if there is nothing contained in that sacred book which can be thought opposed to this method of gambling, neither the one nor the other can give a substantial reason why, in the present rage for lotteries, the people should not be indulged in raising money in the way most agreeable to their humour. PERSOLUS. _Columbian Centinel,_ Feb. 26, 1791. * * * * * _MRS. CLARK AFLOAT._ In the Ship Ann Maria arrived at New-Haven the following wax passengers, viz. King George III, _Bonaparte,_ Washington, _Jefferson,_ Hamilton, _Burr,_ Hillhouse, _Madison,_ Pickering, _Giles_ and _Mrs. Mary Ann Clark._ The Custom-House officers made prisoners of all these passengers for violating the Non-Importation Act, but being proved that they were of East-Haven manufacture and unconscious of crime, we are happy to hear they have been all liberated. King George III. was taken in such bad company as is a sufficient proof that he is _crazy._ Napoleon undoubtedly rejoiced when he beheld the faithful execution in our waters, of his continental system. Washington and Hamilton were glad that they were in their graves, before their country had been plunged so deeply in dis
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