From Posthumous Parodies and other Pieces, composed by several of our most celebrated Poets. London. John Miller, 25, Bow Street. 1814.
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The Last of the Lotteries.
(Public Lotteries were abolished by Act of Parliament in 1826, and the last was drawn on October 18, 1826.)
The Chancellor has passed the stern decree,
The daily press rings out the doleful knell,
Warning each old adventurer, that he
Must now of Lotteries take a last farewell!
Dismay and wonder now pervade Cornhill—
The printers, too, are in a dismal rout,