There have many lately entered into gambling transactions
with these gentlemen, and have taken the profit so long as
they were right in their speculations; but as soon as a loss
came upon them, knowing they have no black board, they walk
themselves coolly away with what they get.

~138~~occupation they carry on elsewhere. From this place, called by
the members of the _house Lower Tartary, or Hell_, the next step of
degradation, when obliged to waddle out of the court, is the _Rotunda
of New Botany Bay_. Here may be seen the private market in miniature; a
crowd of persons calling themselves jobbers and brokers, and, of course,
a market to serve any person who will deal with them; the same system
of _ear-wigging_, nods, and winks, is apparent, and the same _fiddling,
rasping_, and attempts at overreaching each other, as in Upper Tartary,
or the Den; and of course, while they rasp and fiddle, their principals
have to pay for the music: but as no great bargains are contracted
here (these good things being reserved for a select few in the private
market), the jobbers, who are chiefly of little note, are glad if they
can pick up a few shillings for a day's job, by cutting out money stock
for servants' and other people's small earnings. Here may be seen my
lord's footman from the west end of the town, who is a great politician,
and knows for a certainty that the stocks will be down; therefore he
wants to sell out his 50L. savings, to get in at less: here also may be
some other lord's footman, who has taken a different view of things,
and wants to buy; and, although their respective brokers might meet
each other, and transact business in a direct way, at a given price,
notwithstanding they either do, or they pretend to have given the
jobbers the turn,{24} that is, the one sold at one-eighth, and the other
bought at one-fourth.--This market, as in the Alley, is ruled by the
prices established in the private gambling market, which being the case,
some will have messengers running to and from this market to see how the
puffs and bangs proceed; and if they can saddle their neighbour before
he knows the price is changed, it is thought good jobbing. From the
Stock

24 Some act both as jobbers and brokers, and will charge a
com-mission for selling their own stock.

~139~~Exchange to the Rotunda, every where, it will be perceived, a
system of gambling and deception is practised upon the public, and the