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.
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