Common estimation too assigns a far larger profit to the lotteries than Papal returns give it credit for, and, I own that, from the system on which they are conducted, of which I shall speak presently, I suspect the profit must be very much beyond the sum mentioned; anyhow, this source of income is a very important one, and is guarded jealously as a Government monopoly.

Private gambling tables of any kind are rigidly suppressed.

If you want to gamble, you must gamble at the tables and on the terms of the Government.

The very sale of foreign lottery-tickets is, I believe, forbidden.

To this rule there is one exception, and that is in favour of Tuscany.