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The Gaming Table by Andrew Steinmetz

 CHAPTER XI. page 48

Fox's best friends are said to have been half ruined in annuities
given by them as securities for him to the Jews. L500,000 a-
year of such annuities of Fox and his `society' were advertised
to be sold at one time. Walpole wondered what Fox would do when
he had sold the estates of his friends. Walpole further notes
that in the debate on the Thirty-nine Articles, February 6, 1772,
Fox did not shine; nor could it be wondered at. He had sat up
playing at Hazard, at Almack's, from Tuesday evening, the 4th,
till five in the afternoon of Wednesday, the 5th. An hour before
he had recovered L12,000 that he had lost; and by dinner,
which was at five o'clock, he had ended losing L11,000! On
the Thursday he spoke in the above debate, went to dinner at past
eleven at night; from thence to White's, where he drank till
seven the next morning; thence to Almack's, where he won
L6000; and between three and four in the afternoon he set out
for Newmarket. His brother Stephen lost L11,000 two nights
after, and Charles L10,000 more on the 13th; so that in
three nights the two brothers--the eldest not _twenty-five_
years of age--lost L32,000![128]

[128] Timbs, _ubi supra._

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