I needn't say that this did not QUITE enter into Deuceace's
eyedears. Lend his father 500 pound, indeed! He'd as soon have
lent him a box on the year! In the fust place, he hadn seen old
Crabs for seven years, as that nobleman remarked in his epistol; in
the secknd he hated him, and they hated each other; and nex, if
master had loved his father ever so much, he loved somebody else
better--his father's son, namely: and sooner than deprive that
exlent young man of a penny, he'd have sean all the fathers in the
world hangin at Newgat, and all the "beloved ones," as he called
his sisters, the Lady Deuceacisses, so many convix at Bottomy Bay.

The newspaper parrografs showed that, however secret WE wished to
keep the play transaction, the public knew it now full well.
Blewitt, as I found after, was the author of the libels which
appeared right and left:


"GAMBLING IN HIGH LIFE--the HONORABLE Mr. D--c--ce again!--This
celebrated whist-player has turned his accomplishments to some
profit. On Friday, the 16th January, he won five thousand pounds
from a VERY young gentleman, Th-m-s Sm-th D-wk-ns, Esq., and lost
two thousand five hundred to R. Bl-w-tt, Esq., of the T-mple. Mr.
D. very honorably paid the sum lost by him to the honorable whist-
player, but we have not heard that, BEFORE HIS SUDDEN TRIP TO
PARIS, Mr. D--uc--ce paid HIS losings to Mr. Bl-w-tt."


Nex came a "Notice to Corryspondents:"