In the previous year a party, mostly French emigrants, were taken
at a house in Oxendon Street, with the table, cards, &c. A city
magistrate and a city officer had a dispute at cards, and a
knock-down game ensued.
In 1799 the Marlborough Street officers apprehended at the gaming
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.
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