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wines , and with a sufficient quantity of them , because when " the wine ' s in , the wit , " according to the old proverb , is sure to be out ; * ' and men are then , of couple , in the best ofi all possible conditions to risk their money , and to play , too , in such a way as is most likely to result in their losing it- " - —Vol * i , pp . 162 , 163 .
Our author now proceeds in a very learned manner ,- —we feel assured he is too knowing to have paid very dear for his instruction , —to discuss the qualities and occupations of " Greeks" and " Spiders / ' and other gentlemen necessary to the proper exhibition of experiments in the science of gaming and decoying . To young men in their teens , who are sure of large fortunes , unlimited credit is given , and we are told that Lord C if paid down 100 , 000 / . on his coining of age , for
debts of honour he had contracted at Crockford ' s . " " Crockford ' s cook is the celebrated Monsieur Oude . His salary is a thousand guineas per annum . There is another cook und&r him with a yearjj ^ sajary of five hundred guineas . M . Oude seldom superintends the culinary prp ^ ess himself : he only does so when the Duke of Argyle , or any V , ot-hj ^ r . ^ lfiUnguiBhed member of the club , requests him to do it /' ——ol . iy p . , 16 $ .
And With a dignified urbanity , we suppose he sometimes condescendingly acquiesces . For this the people of England support an expensive aristocracy ! " On the ground-floor , detached from the reading-room , there is another apartment , smaller than that up stairs , for playing hazard . This
lower room is used during the parliamentary recess , the number of gamblers in town , being then much less : or should it bo wanted during the time the Houses are sitting , owing to an unusual muster of the gamblers , it , is then thrown open . The one up stairs is always * hut during- the lecnslative recess . "—Vol . i , pp . 167—168 .
Hereditary legislators ! After voting on public money matters in a rnanner the most likely to make it circulate , direfcthror indirectly into their own pockets , the lords lounge off to Ctockford ' s to lose fortunes at " hazard !"
" jSevjQtt , years ago one pigeon was plucked , in a few hours , to the tune of 60 , OpO £ -T-the stakes were 10 , 000 / . It is only three years since Lord C——r-vthe grancfeon of an aged noble Earl , lost 30 , 000 / . in one night . The winner was a noble Marquis , of sporting notoriety , who , according to report , was at that time , if not now , a part proprietor of tho establishment . ^ Losses of 5000 / ., 7000 / ., and 10 , 000 / ., in one night , are by no mean ft uncommon when a rich flat is caught , "—Vol . i , p . 171 .
The writer also states that young noblemen have frequently staked 10 , 000 / . on a single g ame , and that one night * ' the enormous Vupa of l 00 Q , Ob 0 / . was turned over , from the time the play commence ^ till it concluded—a period of eight hour » . ;> Our mitbqr pays one equalty gra > e krid ludicrous compliment to Cnockford , for not permitting any gambling on Sunday , —as if the slightest pretence of religion , on the part
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The Great Metropolis . 705
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/53/
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