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of insuring -- Steps taken to prevent it -- Specimen handbill -- Bish, the lottery office-keeper -- Lottery for the "Pigot" diamond -- Lottery-office agencies -- Shortening the time of drawing the lottery -- Story of Baron d'Aguilar.
As usual, the annual lottery for 1792 was passed in Parliament (32 Geo. III. c. 28), which, giving £500,000 in prizes, brought in a net profit of £300,136 6_s._ 10_d._ This lottery began drawing February 18, 1793, and in a handbill of Messrs. Richardson, Goodluck, and Co., a very respectable firm of office-keepers, whose offices were by the Bank of England, we learn to what varied grades in life the lottery prizes fell. It was No. 12,087 ticket, a £30,000 prize in the last lottery, sold by this firm in sixteenths.