Lord Kenyon, in 1795, tried a clerk 'for misapplying his master's
confidence,' and the facts were as follows. 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.