Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire.

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1818
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Credit: Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    following for the mere purpose of allaying public opi- nion and to alleviate the ieelings of those we had so justly accused. On this subject an investigation is now taking place, in the course of which we hope to prove Mr. Sickles and Mr. Judah Tree from imputa- tion. They are gentlemen well known to us, and they both have sworn they know nothing of fraud in this affair. They are men of established character, and no one who knows them can doubt their veracity under an obligation so solemn. The public are requested to suspend opinion as to them, until the result of this investigation shall be known. It is necessary, and justice demands that we should aaain say we never intended the slightest im- putation upon the purity of the managers, Gen. Johnson, Dr. Mitchell and Alderman Denniston, Mr. Kent or Mr. M'Lean, or on the little boy, whose innocence we cannot doubt. .Notwithstanding the solemn assurance we received and the disposition on our part to give Mr. Judah and Mr. Sickles an opportunity to clear up the imputation that rested on their characters, we learned with no small degree of surprise that the investigation on their part had been very wisely declined. On the 29th of September the following statement under the signature of Mr. Judah himself appeared in the Columbian. THE LOTTERY. In an article of considerable length, published in the Republican Chronicle, of the 23d inst. and headed Lottery Management, my name is introduced in a way calculated to make an unfavourable impression on the public mind ; it is, therefore, a duty I owe mvself, as well as the public, however unpleasant may be the performance of it, to give a statement of the transaction. On Thursday evening, the 10th inst. when I came home, I found the following letter, written in an unknown hand, which had been left at my dwelling-house in my absence, by a boy unknown :— Dear sir,—Your friendly and benevolent disposition induces me to inform you, that 1 dreamed that ticket No. 15,460 will be drawn on the ninth day of drawing. I inform you, that you may benelit by my vision. ' A FRIEND. To those persons who are unacquainted with the insurance of lottery tickets, it may appear absurd that dreams should have any influence on the choice of numbers to be insured ; but those ac- quainted with the course of that business well know, that more than two-thirds of all the numbers insured are chosen in consequence of dreams. One person dreams and communicates it to another, and he to a third, and so on. Sometimes these dreams are realized but oftener they prove fallacious. Five hundred numbers are drawn in a day, and any person that names one of those five hundred, by paying a premium graduated according to the number of days of