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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    INTRODUCTION. Containing a brief account of the caus«s which led to the detection of Lottery frauds, and to our trial for a libel. We live in an age of new inventions, and new dis- coveries. A set of sober industrious mechanics have lately been detected, in the neighborhood of London, in a conspiracy to rob their neighbors. Calculating on their safety from situation, they felt secure that their honest and industrious demeanor by day, would screen them from suspicion of robbery by night. But like most rogues who have relied on situation as a screen, they were protected only for a time, and very soon, that situation on which they relied, became not a screen to hide their crimes, but an index to point at them. Having procured money beyond the means of ordinary mechanics, and showing out to their neighbors a splen- dor beyond their situation—it was their situation, con- nected with that splendor, which first awakened sus- picion; suspicion led to investigation—investigation to detection—and detection to punishment—just as in the case of the lotteries. And thus it often pleases Providence to use the means on which wicked men rely for protection, to draw down upon their heads the very punishment they wish to elude. The history of the lottery frauds which have been practised for years, in our city, and the history of the manner in which these frauds have been detected, would be not only interesting but instructing to every attentive and reflecting reader. Neither our time, nor the limits to which we are prescribed, will permit us to enter minutely upon these histories. It must there- fore suffice for us, on this head to say that the disclo- sures made by the witnesses at the trial, here published, prove that this community, where tickets have been sold to a greater extent and number, than in any other $WM-