2 OR, Literary and Scientisc Mirror. UTILE DULCI." frutar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehending Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners. ment, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annual Tolne, with an Index and Title-page.-Its circulation renders it a most eligible medium for Literary and Fashionable Advertisements.-Regular supplies are forwarded weekly to the Agents. Men and Manners. BRIOR OF A PALL-MALL HELL. [FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES.] -Facilis descensus Averni: alque dies patet atri janua Ditis: care gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, ws, hic labor est. of Hell stand open night and daythe descent, and easy is the way: return to light and golden skies, the task; 'tis there the labour lies. eautiful picture which Virgil here he easy entrance, at all hours of the night, into the hell of the ancient and the difficulty of escape from ey region to the light of heaven, is by applicable to those modern scenes of at least pecuniary destruction-which dis- cannot be better applied, than to such an exsipation and folly have caused to spring up, posure of them as will warn the unthinking and which are very appropriately denomi- against the certain ruin, of principles and of nated "Hells." In those modern hells, it is character, to which the habitual attending of the entrance which is difficult; for, when the them naturally, and indeed necessarily, leads. perdition of fortune is complete, the exit We have said, that the entrance to those hells proves easy enough. Still, however, there is is difficult: it is so, but the object is only to this in it: it is not a return to that light of exclude the officers of justice, and all who prosperity-that sun of virtue and happiness, might put the thoughtless upon their guard which shone upon the unhappy victim; but of the ruin which awaits them there. The hell an escape from the racking tortures of the is usually a very splendid apartment, in which gaming-table into the certainty of beggary the frequenters are treated with the choicest and ruin. Those hells-haunts of dissipation viands and the most costly wines, at the examong characters of all ranks have been pense of the house; at least this is the case in brought more immediately into public notice those of the most respectable-or, as we should by the murder of Mr. Weare, than they ever call it, of the deepest and most destructive were by a common gaming-house accident; class. Before a stranger can be admitted, he and, therefore, we think a column or two must pass three, four, or even five sets of doors, strongly barricadoed on the inside, and watched by cunning Cerberi and club-armed bullies. At each of those doors, a small slip only is at first withdrawn, and pass-words and signs, like those of a freemason, have to be exchanged ere the stranger can get within side. This caution is repeated at every door, and one would naturally suppose, that a person possessing even the slightest degree of penetration would hesitate, ere he entered where so many guards against the knowledge of the public had to be set. It turns out, however, that the difficulty of access does not lessen the number of visitors; and the throng to these hells is to the full as great as if the admission were easy and the visit profitable. In proportion, too, as the getting in is long and laborious, the getting out is summary and involuntary; for no sooner is the visitant stripped of all his cash, than he is insulted, jostled, kicked down stairs, and tossed into the street, without ceremony and without pity. And, if we wonder why so many brave the difficulties of the approach, much more may we wonder, why there should be found one who could return to it a second time, after sustaining the indignity of the exit. No doubt one reason is the very mystery which hangs over the place and upon this ground it were, perhaps, well that they were forced to be as open to the public as ordinary coffee houses; another reason may be, that there is at first sight an appearance of fairness in the games; but the third and principal reason is, that foolish belief in the favour of fortune, which seems a general motive of human action in more places than the gaming-house. administrators of the law to follow the de- A. To bring the gaming part of this most was a C. D. E. is John Thurtell. He is leaning upon the side. board in that gloomy and forbidding mood whic he is still said to keep up. In the mean time & appears to be unoccupied, any otherwise than b a train of confederacy, which a careful observe will perceive between him and the other character is Hunt standing close by Thurtell, and is the se of pouring out a glass of wine. There is the sam levity in his air which marked his character ab the time of the Gill's Hill transaction; and seems to be a link of communication betw Thurtell and the others of the gang. is Probert. He has some cards in his hand leering toward Thurtell and Hunt, and evident is Mr. Noel, who though not proved to be of indicating to them the success of the game, party, and not supposed to be in the least cerned with the transactions of the Thurtell Hunt, and of Probert, is nevertheless well k in the gaming circles. He fills the offe banker, or croupier, and is in the act of rak towards him, with a mace, the money which! been placed on the losing colour. is Weare, who acts as failleur, or dealer cards, and he and Mr. Noel are exchanging significant looks with each other. is is Lemon, or Lemming, just behind Wear, Lemon, or Lemming, just behind Weare, ing the success of the game, which has ruined who may be considered as Graham, or any G. person ruined in such a place, and who so from the table in an agony of despair. The attitudes and expressions of the oth figures are in good keeping with the p and the associates, and the whole is a faith delineation of what it professes to be. Having thus given some description of t gaming-house, and having subjoined a del neation of its attendants surpassing any th could be given in words, we shall now s something of the deeds that are done ther not of the frauds, villanies, and robber which are practised within such places-th we leave to the police, but of what is sidered the fair and honourable conduct gaming establishment,-if, indeed, any deserving the name of fair and honourable be carried on, where the commonly-rec appellation is that which stands at the this article. Our description of the shall be chiefly confined to the principa and one which was going on when our was taken. That is the game of In so far to remove this mystery-to expose the disadvantages under which a visitor risks his money-and to reprobate the folly of trusting to chance rather than to industry, and living upon the spoils of others rather than upon the honest application of one's own talents-are among the reasons which have induced us to make those hells the subject of The room we need not describe: it is a this paper. But we have other reasonscommon apartment, having a bow at the rereasons, too, which are more immediate and mote end, in which are three windows conimportant: those places of dissipation are cealed by curtains; a sideboard, furnished ROUGE ET NOIR. most intimately connected with that awful oc- with wines and refreshments, is placed on the This game, which is also called Treat currence, which still so powerfully and so pain-right hand side; the rouge et noir table, of a is apparently very simple; at least it is fully occupies the public attention: gaming, kidney shape, occupies the centre; the banker, the common game; and one would almost and that compound of gaming and brutality or croupier, and dealer (whose offices will be that there is something elegant and in pugilistic exhibition, with their concomitants explained afterwards), sit on the opposite about it. It is played (as we said) at a kid carousing, brawling, blackguarding, swindling, sides; the company are scattered round the shaped table-that is, at an oval table, a and theft, seem to have been familiar to all table, some sitting and some standing; and the four feet wide, and of considerable let the parties, or at least to some of them, and whole is illuminated by a splendid chandelier having a recess upon each side, one for some of all their associates. It was the cu- over the centre of the table, Among the Banker (D.) and another for the Deakt pidity and the ruin of the gaming-table, and characters present, those who are acquainted as is shown in the plate. This table is co the betting and bullying at pugilistic exhibi- with the gaming circles will recognize the with cloth, usually green or blue, exce tions, which led on to this catastrophe, which costume and air of the Marquis de Sportion towards each extremity, which brought about that unprecedented depth of the Honourable Colonel B, Captain shown by the light and shaded parts iniquity which is said to have planned so H, Lord, the Honourable plate, is quartered with red and black. 1 many murders, and which has been arrested and a variety of others to which it is unneces-portions of red and black are bordered wit sary particularly to allude. Those which we list of yellow; they are intended for rece shall point out as being in the mean time the money staked by the players, and it is most interesting to the public, are the these colours that the game receives its a ones to whom the letters of reference are of rouge et noir. Besides those quari fixed. portions of red and black, there are o only by the horror and hardihood which it displayed in this, probably, the first instance. The causes of so much crime cannot be too frequently or too forcibly held up to public reprobation; and while it is the duty of the " portions for an additional game, called the any colour, and any sum of money, from one advantage-that it is a perfectly fair game of culeur. In the middle of the table there is pound to two hundred, at the "Golden Hells," chance between it and each player-that, in basket for receiving the cards that have been near Court; and from half-a-crown to twenty short, there is nothing to support the splendid el. This is placed immediately before the pounds at the "Silver Hells," in the purlieus establishment, to pay for the extreme watchDaler. Before the Banker is displayed the of the Haymarket. They all play against the fulness-to seal, as 'tis alleged, the eyes of ash, which is to be augmented by the losings table, or, as it is termed, against the Bank, certain Arguses, who are proof to all metals ofthe players, or diminished by their winnings; meaning the gambling establishment. The but gold and silver-to bear the pelting scorn And this ostentatious display of it is not the placing the money upon the colours is called of outlawry, and to comfort the souls of the least allurement of the game. Small rakes," making the game,' and when the dealer bankers, when circumstances render it necesor, as they are termed, maces, are scattered announces that the game is made, no further sary that a division from the police should bout the table, for the purpose of drawing money can be staked. The stakes are then storm the premises, seize the bank, and send selost money toward the Bank, or the gained played for, or, as it is termed, the coup is the poor plundered inhabitants before the ney toward those by whom it is gained; played; and by this the stakes, both upon the Minoses and Rhadamanthuses of Bow-street. in the plate, Mr Noel is represented as rouge et noir, and the couleur and l'enverse, But there is the little circumstance to which ng one of them for the former purpose. are decided. The manner of doing this is as we already alluded, and which we shall now gh player has usually before him a small follows:explain. Among the numbers that may of card, divided down the middle by a In order to serve the coup, the dealer takes chance to turn up trente-un-thirty-onee, having red marked at the top of the one up, with a blank card, a portion from the itself is included. If it turn up for only one ision, and black at the top of the other. nearest end of the pile of cards before him, of the colours, that colour wins, as a matter ese are for the purpose of marking the and turns them up one by one as long as it is of course; but if it shall turn up for both, ning up of the chances, each player per- necessary, and this depends upon the number neither of them wins, and yet the coup does ating by a pin the column marked with of spots. Trente-un, or thirty-one, is the not go for nothing, as is the case with other colour which wins. game, and whichever of the colours comes equal numbers; for the stakes are then moved The mode of playing at this game is very nearest to that is the winner,-the colour, within the bars-that is, within a space marked ple and at first sight would appear to be meaning that of the cloth upon which the off by lists, and the winners at the next coup fectly equal, if no fraud were practised; player has laid his money, and which, of whichever colour they happen to be, get a complete knowledge of it cannot fail to course, he is not allowed to change after it back only their own money, while that of the w, that there is one little circumstance has been once laid down. Red is usually losing colour goes to the bank. In this state ch must ultimately bring all the money, counted first, and then black. The counting of the game, however, the parties are not wever much it may be (if the parties con- is done in this manner: every card counts obliged to play. Any adventurer may withe playing) into the hands of the owners for the spots that are on it, and every court draw his stake upon paying half of it into the the table. This circumstance will, how-card counts ten, without regard of their colour bank. Still, however, it is obvious, that each be better understood after we have or suit; cards are laid out for red till the num-time both colours turn up thirty-one, the bank ained the general mode of playing. At ber be either thirty-one or above (it cannot must either get the half of all the stakes upon two persons belonging to the establish- be more than forty); then for black in the the table, or the whole of those upon the one are required for conducting the play; same manner; and whichever of the two or the other of the two colours. Nor is this sit opposite to each other, and are the counts nearest to thirty-one, wins. Suppose, all. Both colours may turn up thirty-one ter and Dealer, already alluded to: the for instance, the cards turned up were the twice in succession: the bank is entitled to er having charge of the cash, and the following: red, a five, a three, a king, a four, half the stakes, or to the whole stake upon of the cards. Here it may be proper an eight, and a six-making in all thirty-six; one colour, in consequence of the first turntice, that there are two chances in the black, a six, an acc, a seven, a ten, and a ing up of two thirty-ones; and in consequence le rouge et le noir, or, the red and queen-in all thirty-four: then black would of the second, it is entitled either to the half and le couleur et l'enverse, or, the be the winner, being nearer to thirty-one than of what was staked by all the winners, or to and the opposite: the former alluding red, by a difference of two. When the coup an equal chance of the whole of it by a third two coloured pieces of cloth upon the is decided in this manner, the banker rakes coup. The probability of this turning up of e, and the latter to the colour of the first towards him, with his mace, all the money thirty-one for both colours is so much wrapped that is turned up in dealing. If a player upon the losing colour; in the above instance, up in the compound doctrine of chances, that the rouge et noir, he puts his stake either he would rake to him all that was on the red; we shall not fatigue our readers by an analythe red colour or upon the black, as he and those who have their money on the winning tical investigation of it. It will be found that EI, and wins or loses according as the colour get it back again, together with as the result is not very far from once in thirty turn up for or against the colour on much out of the bank. Should the red and times, or rather, about once in twenty-seven he stakes. If a man go the couleur or black be both above thirty-one, and both ex- and a half; so that, combining the chances of perse, he stakes his money-either that actly the same number, that coup, which is turning up thirty-one once for both, and twice st turned up card shall be red or black. called an apres, goes for nothing; that is to for both, the advantage of the table is about colour which is first turned up win, he say, nobody wins or loses: the cards which two and a half per cent. upon all the money if the other colour, he loses. This is have been dealt go into the basket, and a played; and hence, if a man continue till he ise if he go couleur; if he go reverse, fresh dealing from the remaining cards takes has played any given sum of money forty se is exactly the opposite. place. The cards, as they are played, are times over, the table, or, which is the same, thrown into the basket, and not used again. the bank, or the establishment, must, to a certainty, gain the whole of it; this too, upon the supposition that all is perfectly fair, and that neither the bankers, nor their confede rates, or plants as they are called, of which there are generally a number in the room, practice any of those arts which form a na tural and almost a necessary part of the profession of a gamester. Hence again, we can see the reason why those who engage in this apparently fair game, and who conduct them ice. game is commenced by the tailleur or unsealing six packs of common playing counting each pack in presence of the any; shuffling each pack separately; the six packs together and shuffling handing them to any of the players to in shuffled; having them cut; and then them on edge against a little slab or mediately before him. This preparaing done, al: is ready for playing; and rsons about the table may play upon The decision of the couleur and the reverse depends upon that of the rouge et noir; thus, if the first card be black, and black win, then the couleur wins; but if the first card be black, and red win, then the couleur loses. A player may play either couleur or reverse, as he pleases; and the lost stakes go to the bank, while the winning stakes are paid out of it, just in the same manner as at the rouge et noir. Thus far it appears that the table has no selves fairly, without having any share in the establishment, always ultimately lose, and never fail in being ruined, however large their fortunes may be, provided they continue long enough at the game. It is this circumstance to which the establishment is indebted for its appropriate appellation of a "hell," and in this the money, if not the man, is exactly in the predicament of Virgil's visitant to the shades-it gets in, but cannot get LA ROULETTE. out. 66 cated chances in the game, which we shall not whose ruggedness bruises and pinches the take time to explain: but in all those which best pensioned subject in the realm, and we have mentioned, it is evident that the jostles out of order the laurels of the bes bank or establishment has in its favour an paid warrior of the age. Within one little odds of 38 to 36 against any player, or a profit mile of our King's palace there are not fewe of one-eighteenth of all the money played; than 20 houses (minor ones are innumerable) and that, therefore, upon any of the simple devoted to rouge et noir, roulette, and other chances, the whole of any player's money-games of chance; and which are supported that is, the money which he upon an average by capitalists, many of whom are known stakes, must be won by the bank in eighteen men of fancy pursuits-in other words, ar times playing. In an expert house, this may upon the town," to catch what they c be done in the brief space of ten, or even five by what means they may; there are also some In the summariness of its retribution, this minutes; and thus the roulette table is not moving in the better circles, who disdain me game may be regarded as the deepest engine undeserving the name of "the deepest hell." to share in the profits of this nefarious calling of perdition in our fashionable hells; and it This, however, is merely the odds against a and not a few of those capitalists, or banke does not even bear upon the face of it that single player: the odds against all the players as they are called, have been butlers or val external fairness which appears upon a first depends upon their number, the stakes which in distinguished families, and have not unft view of rouge et noir. It is not just so fre- they play, and the chances upon which they quently turned the extravagant habits of the quently played in this country as the other stake. No average of these can be taken; masters to profitable account. It will scarce game, and yet, when a hell happens to be but players find to their cost, that 500 to 1 is be believed by those moving in the silent wal sacked by the police-officers, a roulette appa- not too much to allow in favour of the table; of happier existence, that this class of person ratus is usually contained among the spolia hence it needs the temptation of gaining 36 many thousands in number, frequently opima. Roulette is played at a table very times the stake, to induce even a fool to risk their secret meetings, at which they free analogous to the rouge et noir table, only it is his money, in so very blackguard a game. and systematically discuss the habits, t square at the ends, and different in its markThe playing is simple: the tailleur twirls associations, the propensities, and the wa ing and its apparatus. In the middle of the round the cross from right to left with his of their titled masters. Even ladies' ma table, between the banker and the tailleur, or finger, which puts the bottom, containiug the disdain not to join in this secret but efte player, this apparatus is placed. It consists thirty-eight holes, in rapid motion; at the league against the privileged few. The of a mahogany bowl, the centre of which is same instant he dashes into the cup, in the is not generally known, but it is neverthele of copper, furnished with arms extending opposite direction, a small ivory ball. This true, that a celebrated firm, whose late fatt along the sides of the bowl, and perforated ball whirls and bounds round and round, for made a considerable stir at Guildhall, and with thirty-eight holes. These are marked some time, with great rapidity; but as, the the different courts, and whose close exan with numbers from 1 to 36, and also a 0 and 00 motion of the machine gets less rapid, it be-nation would, it was dreaded, have led to di placed in an irregular order, some of them comes slower, and it ultimately settles in one closures affecting some of the very highes marked red, and others black. This bottom, or other of the holes, which settling decides subjects in the realm, as well as Lite with its arms, is moveable by machinery called the game. The tail eur, the moment the ball lords, and cut-and-run gentry, was establis the moulinet, which is put in rapid motion by is sluggish in its motion, gives notice that the at its outset very much by an intimate a touching a cross over the centre of the bowl. game is made, and no more can be played quaintance with the higher class of domesti Each end of the table is divided into three upon that game. Whoever has staked on that male and female, who crowd the halls of columns, and each column is divided into number receives thirty-six times his stake; nobility, and make it their chief object thirteen spaces, upon twelve of which, in each whoever has staked on that column receives worm themselves into the confidence, in of column, beginning from the centre of the three times his stake; whoever has staked on that they may get possession of the secret table, and reading from right to left, are that manque, or half, receives double his stake; their credulous and communicative super written twelve of the thirty-six numbers, as whoever has staked upon that colour, receives So important was this set of gentry to the 1, 4, 7, 10, &c. on the first column, 2, 5, 8, 11, double his stake; and so on for the other to which we have alluded, in giving info &c. on the second column, and 3, 6, 9, 12, &c. chances; and all the money on the losing tion of the declining and desperate fort on the third column. The remaining sub-numbers is raked toward the bank-and this, of those who were outrunning their m division of each column, being the one next as we have said, must, upon the average, ex- as well as in supplying pecuniary resou the end of the table, is left blank; and a space ceed the winnings by a very great sum; a that an annual supper was given, which extending across the three columns, between sum so great, indeed, that a large fortune worthy money-lenders presided over, a them and the apparatus, is divided into two might be lost at the roulette table in half the their courts to a gang of powdered but parts, and marked by the 0 and the 00. As time that we have taken to describe it. We and valets, and a bevy of ladies-maids at rouge et noir, the players play against the have thus described not the worst, and the toilette confidants, in number often exce table, staking their money upon one number, worst of the fashionable means of being robbed two hundred. The plan of these parti upon one column, upon three columns, upon in an honourable way, and reduced to beg-was (and, we are pretty well convinced. one of the colours, or, in short, upon any gary; upon the low games, and the direct is) admirably calculated for attaining number they choose, the stake they have a frauds and swindlings, we shall not enter. object. Young men of fashion and fort chance of increasing in amount, as the chance There is enough in the fair game to keep a when their minds are tortured with the las diminishes. Money staked upon one number sensible man at a distance; and, as says the they have sustained at the gaming-tab is laid upon that number, and if the number wise King of Israel, "bray a fool in a mor- the race-course, when they are almost t win, thirty-six times the stake is paid out of tar," &c. tic that the want of means to meet their the bank; if one column is played on and gagements would inflict an incurable wa wins, three times the stake is paid out of An intelligent reader will at once see, that upon their high-flown notions of honour the bank; if three columns are played on, it would require something more than the value of which honour may be estima double the stake is paid out of the bank; and mere attractions of a gaming house keeper to the tricks and taunts which they piss? in general, if any number of numbers is played bring so many of our fashionable people into their poor, honest, and legal creditors)on, the number of stakes received, in case of this road of destruction-a road upon which when at the same time they dread lest the winning, is determined by dividing 36 by that the greatest titled and landed fortunes in losses should come to the ears of their fa number. There are other and more compli- England are ever and anon breaking down; and connexions, are very apt to be tora THE ROAD TO RUIN. and SEPULCHRAL INSCRIPTIONS. NO. XV. WHETHER REMARKABLE FOR SINGULARITY, ODDITY, OR BEAUTY. "Hush, ye fond flutterings, hush! while here alone, "Here lies the great :-false marble, where? 101.-On a Young Lady. agony-to feel a thousand stabs of remorse in the career of dissipation-larger and yet and some few justle into the Mistris Fortune. and to exhibit, in their hours of retirement, larger sums are raised and lent, till every re- And it is here as in the Court, where the that bitterness and anguish of the heart which versionary and contingent interest is loaded nearest are most sprighted, and all blows the scorn of the plunderers prevents them beyond its value. The Inrolment-office, in aym'd at the Toucher. on exhibiting at the gaming house. Their Chancery-lane, is smothered with parchments, kind and faithful servants are always on the and the Judgment-office crammed with docach for these paroxysms, and softly and quets, till not a farthing more can be raised thingly do they inquire after the cause; in what is called "the regular line." Then is the sympathy confined to fawning looks begin the low shifts and fraudulent subter-COMPRISING CURIOUS EPITAPHS, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, &e. and well-oiled words-pity comes in a flood, fuges: four, five, or six of these "dished and ad the sighs of faithful John, or the tears of degraded" gentry are crowded into one bond en trusted Betty, breathe softly and fall to grant £100 a-year for £400 principal, ntly upon the woes of some ruined heir or being four years' purchase. Out of this a ered beauty-upon the lost son of some train of needy negotiators are first paid; so strious and titled family, who has been that scarcely £300 of the capital is available ed to the den by his yellowed and mus to the wants of the miserable borrowers. hoed friends, or upon some lovely form Fifty pounds a-piece is soon expended, and a ach has been seduced, by the rouged hags bill of £80 is drawn by one, accepted by warn-rut distinction, into games of chance. another, and indorsed by four or five; for ese unbosom their minds to the artful valet which some pawnbroker, or dealer in smutty the treacherous maid, who stand simpering pictures, gives £50, and a bundle of spoons blubbering the while. Sadly do they de- or lascivious exhibitions in ivory; which last re their own incapacity to assist-glad are sold at one-third of the purchase. The ald they be, if they had it, to lay a for- bill becomes due-Moshesh hash no bowelsh— e-world at the feet of a master or and the pride of the gaming-table-the lost mistress so dear and so deserving: they ornament perchance of his country, goes to £50, perhaps £100-would to Heaven jail and to the grave, without a friend and were £10,000! all the money in the world without a monument. Sic transit gloria munould be too little for the choicest of masters di. ad the loveliest of mistresses. They tear eir hair, and cudgel their foreheads, well owing what is to come forth. "John, the der to the Marquis of H. told me that he ow where he could obtain £20,000 any e when he wanted it, upon giving what, hink, he called a post-obit, or something of sort, payable when his master's father "Ambition, hope, and the love of distion, return to the empty heart of the ared youth, "Oh, John, you are a dear REVIVIANA. MICRO.COSMOGRAPHIE; or, a Piece of the [CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.] Here innocence and beauty lie, whose breath A careless, hapless creature; 104.-On a man named Stone. 105.-On Mr. Partridge who died in Moy. What! kill a Partridge in the month of May! Was that done like a sportsman? eh, Death, ch? Advertisements. GENUINE STORIES. This day were published, in Two Volumes, with Engravings, price 14s- bound, or 16s. elegantly bound, PICTURES, or STORIES, drawn from English, Scot tish, and Irish History. Chiefly from the Ancient Chronicles and other extensive Works of detail. By JOHN GALT, Esq. Author of the Life of West, &c. &c. This Work is designed to furnish reading for Young Per sons, at once rational, instructive, and interesting; serving equally stimulates curiosity, and furnishes unalloyed entertainment. It contains above Two hundred several Stories, which are not to be met with in modern Language, or in characters connected with our National History, from the as a substitute for romances and works of fiction, while it Books of easy access, all of them illustrative of events and London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Of whom may also be had, having the same design in re 47. A BOWLING ALLEY is the place where tell me where it is-you will lay me there are three things thrown away besides imperishable obligations;-run to the Bowls, to wit, time, money, and curses, and ss-find out the butler-lose not a the last, ten for one. The best sport in it is Rent! Let me see, this is Tuesday; and !! pay £10,000 at T's next Satur- the Gamesters, and he enjoyes it, that looks all my prospects are for ever blighted. on and bets not. It is the school of wranger mind what I am to give-£30,000 will ling, and worse then the Schools, for men will ething when the old boy dies-off di- cavil here for an hairs breadth, and make a my dear fellow." Now is the twig stirre where a straw would end the controfor success; an interview with the versie. No Antick screws mens bodies into ey-lender is obtained-the name sounds the father and the estates are both such strange flexures, and you would think known and so it is agreed to advance them here senseless to speak sense to their 1000, by way of annuity, of £2000, for bowl, and put their trust in intreaties for a lives. The money is immediately forth-good cast. The Betters are the factious ng from twenty-four valets, each of whom noyse of the Alley, or the Gamesters Beads-ings, price 15s, bound. nces £500, and among them is the cun- men, that pray for them. They are somewhat confidant. A deed of trust is prepared, like those that are cheated by great men, for enough to carpet Lincoln's-Inn-fields, aring the interest which each contributor they lose their money and must say nothing. Capital has in the annuity, and a bonus, It is the best discovery of humours, especially among the fraternity, is given to the in the losers, where you have fine variety of ber who has so dexterously decoyed his impatience, whil'st some fret, some rail, some into the snare. [The picture, though swear, and others more ridiculously comfort if we chose.] Relieved from his im- themselves with Philosophy. 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