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The Gaming Table by Andrew Steinmetz, Volume II
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Doings In Gaming Houses
SPECIMEN OF A QUASI GAMING HOUSE CIRCULAR.
'SIR,--I hope you will join with the rest of the parishioners in
recommending what friends you can to my shops. They shall have
good candles and fair play. Sir, we are a not gang of swindlers,
Like other Gaming Houses,
We are men of character.
Our Party is,
Tom Carlos--alias Pistol,
Ned Mogg,--from Charing Cross,
Union Clarke, ------------
{The best in the world at
A Frenchman,{
{sleight of hand.
My poor Brother,
and
Melting Billy,
Your humble Servant.
To the Church-Wardens, Overseers, and each
respectable inhabitant in the Parish.'
A card was enclosed, as follows:--
'****
Gaming House Keeper,
and **** **** to
The Honourable House of Commons
No. 7 and 8 **** St, St James's.'
This circular was sent to Stockdale, the publisher, in 1820, who
published it with the names in asterisks suppressed. It was
evidently intended to expose some doings in high places.
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