aming house,
No. 3, Leicester Square, thirteen out of twenty persons, from the first
floor, playing at Rouge et Noir. One of the gamblers, when they first
entered, threw up the sash, and, stepping from the leads, fell into the
area, and died in being conveyed to the hospital.

In the same year, two notorious gaming houses, Nos. 1 and 3, King's
Place, were attacked, by authority of a search warrant. All the
paraphernalia of the profession, as tables, dice, counters, &c., were
seized; but the inmates effected their escape over the roofs of the
adjoining houses. The proprietor of No. 3 was smoked in a chimney, and
three French emigrants intercepted in their retreat. On one of them was
found a gold watch, which appeared, by the robbery-book, to have
been stolen about five years previously. The banks had been conveyed
away,--at least, they were not among the captures.

'SOMETHING HONOURABLE TO THE BRITISH FLAG.'

It is stated as highly honourable to the British flag that, among the
gamesters of the first quarter of the present century, no Admirals
were seen at the INFERIOR tables. Their proper pride kept them from
a familiar association with pursers, clerks, grocers, horse-dealers,
linen-drapers, silk-mercers, masons, builders, timber-merchants,
booksellers, &c., &c., and men of the very lowest walks of life.

COARSE LANGUAGE OF GAMESTERS.

'I heard those who, in another place, even in the most polished courts,
would take a high rank for good breeding and gentlemanly education, at
these tables make use of language which, I hope, Billingsgate itself
would turn from with disgust. It cannot be repeated; neither would it
be believed, unless by such as, like myself, have had "confirmation
strong," too strong to be rejected, if I did not, at the same time,
reject the evidence of my senses.'(45)

(45) Seymour Harcourt, The Gaming Calendar.

BOASTED PROTECTION OF GREAT NAMES TO GAMING HOUSES.

'On one occasion I was at the Pigeon Hole, in St James's Square (since
removed to King Street), when the apprehensions which the rapid sale of
The Greeks (a work exposing the system) excited among the players were
warmly debated. To my great astonishment, a person who I supposed was
a proprietor, boasted the impenetrability of HIS house, and on what
ground, think you? Why, on that of it having the countenance of the
Lord Chief Justice of England! True or false, it seemed to revive the
flagging spirits of its visitors. They knew bett