y curious entry in the betting-book. Lord
Mountford bets Sir John Bland twenty guineas that Nash outlives Cibber.'
'How odd,' says Walpole, 'that these two old creatures, selected for
their antiquities, should live to see both their wagerers put an end
to their own lives! Cibber is within a few days of eighty-four, still
hearty, and clear, and well. I told him I was glad to see him look
so well. "Faith," said he, "it is very well that I look at all." Lord
Mountford would have been the winner: Cibber died in 1757, Nash in
1761.'

Hogarth's scene at the gambling house is taken at White's. 'We see the
highwayman, with his pistols peeping out of his pocket, waiting by
the fireside till the heaviest winner takes his departure, in order to
"recoup" himself for his losings; and in the Beaux' Stratagem, Aimwell
asks of Gibbet--"Ha'n't I seen your face at White's?" "Ay, and at Will's
too," is the highwayman's answer.'

According to Captain Gronow, George Harley Drummond, of the famous
banking-house, Charing Cross, only played once in his whole life at
White's Club, at Whist, on which occasion he lost L20,000 to Brummell.
This even caused him to retire from the banking-house, of which he was a
partner.

'Walpole and a party of friends (Dick Edgecumbe, George Selwyn, and
Williams), in 1756, composed a piece of heraldic satire--a coat of arms
for the two gaming clubs at White's--which was "actually engraven from a
very pretty painting of Edgecumbe, whom Mr Chute, as Strawberry King at
Arms," appointed their chief herald-painter. The blazon is vert (for
a card-table); three parolis proper on a chevron sable (for a Hazard
table); two rouleaux in saltire between two dice proper, on a canton
sable; a white ball (for election) argent. The supporters are an old and
young knave of clubs; the crest, an arm out of an earl's coronet
shaking a dice-box; and the motto, Cogit amor nummi--"The love of money
compels." Round the arms is a claret-bottle ticket by way of order.'

6. WATTIER'S CLUB.

This great Macao gaming house was of short duration. Mr Raikes says of
it:--'The club did not endure for twelve years altogether; the pace was
too quick to last; it died a natural death in 1819, from the paralyzed
state of its members. The house was then taken by a set of blacklegs,
who instituted a common bank of gambling. To form an idea of the ruin
produced by this short-lived establishment among men whom I have so
intimately known, a cursory gl