umbered estate, and not a shilling of ready money!

AN ENTERPRISING CLERK.

Lord Kenyon, in 1795, tried a clerk 'for misapplying his master's
confidence,' and the facts were as follows. He went with a bank note
of L1000 to a gaming house in Osendon Street, where he won a little.
He also won two hundred guineas at another in Suffolk Street. He next
accompanied some keepers of a third house to their tables, where he
lost above nine hundred pounds. He played there almost every night; and
finally lost about L2500!

GAMBLING FOR RECRUITS FOR THE ARMY.

An Irish officer struck out a mode of gambling, for recruits. He
gave five guineas bounty, and one hundred to be raffled for by young
recruits,--the winner to be paid immediately, and to purchase his
discharge, if he pleased, for L20. The dice-box was constantly going at
his recruiting office in Dublin.

DOUBLING THE STAKES.

A dashing young man of large fortune, about the year 1820, lost at a
subscription house at the West End, L80,000. The winner was a person
of high rank. The young man, however, by doubling the stakes, not
only recovered his losses, but in his turn gained considerably of his
antagonist.

AN ANNUITY FOR A GAMBLING DEBT.

A fashionable nobleman had won from a young and noble relative the sum
of L40,000. The cash not being forthcoming, he accepted an annuity of
L4000.

SIR WILLIAM COLEPEPPER.

It is told of Sir William Colepepper that, after he had been ruined
himself at the gaming table, his whole delight was to sit there and see
others ruined. Hardened wretch--'Who though he plays no more, overlooks
the cards'--with this diabolical disposition!

THE BITER BITTEN.

A certain duchess, of a ci-devant lord-lieutenant, who expected to make
a pigeon of Marshal Blucher, was fleeced of L200,000; to pay which her
lord was obliged to sell a great part of his property, and reside on the
continent.

HUNTED DOWN.

A stout-hearted and gallant military baronet lost an immense sum at a
celebrated gaming house; but was so fortunate as to recover it, with
L1200 more. This last sum HE PRESENTED TO THE WAITERS. He was pursued by
two of the 'play-wrights' to a northern watering-place, where he was
so plucked that all his possessions were brought to the hammer. A
competency was, however, saved from the magnificent wreck.

COMING OF AGE.

When Sir C-- T--, a weak young man, with a large fortune, came of age,
the Greeks, thinking him an excellent quarry, went