each nation may
yearly be found there during the months of summer, and, as a natural
consequence, many of the worst and vilest follow them, in the hope of
pillage.

Says Mrs Trollope:--'I doubt if anything less than the evidence of the
senses can enable any one fully to credit and comprehend the spectacle
that a gaming-table offers. I saw women distinguished by rank,
elegant in person, modest, and even reserved in manner, sitting at the
Rouge-et-noir table with their rateaux, or rakes, and marking-cards in
their hands;--the former to push forth their bets, and draw in their
winnings, the latter to prick down the events of the game. I saw such
at different hours through the whole of Sunday. To name these is
impossible; but I grieve to say that two English women were among them.'

The Conversationshaus, where the gambling takes place, is let out by
the Government of Baden to a company of speculators, who pay, for the
exclusive privilege of keeping the tables, L11,000 annually, and
agree to spend in addition 250,000 florins (L25,000) on the walks and
buildings, making altogether about L36,000. Some idea may be formed from
this of the vast sums of money which must be yearly lost by the dupes
who frequent it. The whole is under the direction of M. Benazet, who
formerly farmed the gambling houses of Paris.

'On trouve ici le jeu, les livres, la musique,
Les cigarres, l'amour, les orangers,
Le monde tantot gai, tantot melancholique,
Les glaces, la danse, et les cochers;
De la biere, de bons diners,
A cote d'arbre une boutique,
Et la vue de hauts rochers.
Ma foi!'

'We find here gambling, books, and music,
Cigars, love-making, orange-trees;
People or gay or melancholic,
Ices, dancing, and coachmen, if you please;
Beer, and good dinners; besides these,
Shops where they sell not _on tic;_
And towering rocks one ever sees.'

'How shall I describe,' says Mr Whitelocke, 'to my readers in language
sufficiently graphic, one of the resorts the most celebrated in Europe;
a place, if not competing with Crockford's in gorgeous magnificence
and display, at least surpassing it in renown, and known over a wider
sphere? The metropolitan pump-room of Europe, conducted on the principle
of gratuitous admittance to all bearing the semblance of gentility and
conducting themselves with propriety, opens its Janus doors to all the
world with the most laudable hospitalit