Mr. Editor:—­Having attended the Lecture of J. H. Green, last evening, at the Chinese Museum, on the popular vice of Gambling, and differing from him in each and in every view which he took, and which he is in the habit of taking upon that subject, I beg leave respectfully to say to him through the medium of your columns, that I have made up my mind to confront him in debate, in regard to the right and wrong of the subject in question.  I say, I am willing so to do, provided it meets his views, and those of the community.  If he, and those who admire his theory, are the friends of truth, surely they will not shrink from investigation?—­and if I cannot sustain myself in debate, why, his triumph will add strength to his cause.

With regard to who I am, I will say in a single word that I am a professional Gambler.  I shall set out, if we meet, to prove to the audience, among other things, that in his illustrations of the cheatery which he says the gambler practices upon his victim, he is actually at that very moment practising a palpable cheat upon the very audience which he is proposing to enlighten.  As regards any profits that may arise from such a meeting, I want none, although perhaps as needy as Mr. Green.

As regards experience in debate, Mr. G. has decidedly the advantage of me in that respect.  I have had the honour of addressing public audiences four times in my whole life, and but four—­two of these were in favour of Old Tip, in 1840, and the other two upon the subject of temperance.  I am well aware that there are many persons who would look upon it as a sort of inconsistency that a man, occupying my position, should be the honest advocate of temperance—­but they so reason because they are uninformed in regard to the higher order of gambling!

Should Mr. Green accede to my proposition, he only has to name his time and place—­or if he prefers to have a personal interview, he can do so.  I am willing to wait on him at his boarding-house, but would like to have at least one respectable person present to hear all that passes between us.

    J.G.  FREEMAN.

N.B.—­I am a native of South Carolina; I am known from Virginia to Orleans.  Mr. Green I have seen in that city, and he no doubt recollects me, though I never had any intimacy with him.

We publish below another communication from Mr. Freeman, in which he announces that Mr. Green has accepted his challenge to debate, and lays down his points for argument.  We are glad of this, and have no doubt the public will share in our curiosity to know what kind of a defence can be made by a gambler, even so polished as Mr. Freeman, for a vice fitly characterized by Mr. Green as “fifty per cent. worse than stealing.”  Expectation is on tiptoe.

    Communicated for the Sun.

Mr. Editor—­I return to you my sincere thanks for having kindly published my letter to Mr. J. H. Green, the reformed gambler; and beg leave now to state to you, that I have had an interview with him, and that he fully consents to go into the debate.  It now devolves upon me, since I have assumed the character of plaintiff in the action, to define minutely the exact points to be discussed.