An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down. " When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not the losers.
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by those readers who are insensible to the importance of laws and manners, while they peruse, with eager curiosity, the transient intrigues of a court, or the accidental event of a battle.