The Magistrates were not quite so severe as Lord Kenyon had promised to be, should he ever get any of these ladies into his clutches: perhaps they had heard of the recent loss of Lady Buckinghamshire's, when in Feb{y}. her Faro Bank was stolen, or, at least, _she said it had been_. Gillray caricatured it very cleverly--as also he did in the accompanying illustration, "Discipline à la Kenyon"--in which the Lord Chief Justice, is administering a sound flogging to Lady Buckinghamshire, whilst Lady Archer, and Mrs. Concannon, stand in the pillory, guarded by a stalwart constable. "The expence of entertainments at a Gaming House of the highest class, in St. James' Square, during the eight months of last season, has been said to exceed _6000 Guineas_! what must be the profits to afford such a profusion?"--(_Times, March 21, 1797._) * * * * * "The Pharo _Trade_ is likely to experience a more severe check from the recent refusal of some fashionable Gamesters to liquidate their debts, than from the accumulated terrors of _Police_ persecution. If the punters won't _pay_, the dealers may as well _shut up_ shop."--(_Times, Sept. 23, 1797._) * * * * * "If a man should happen, in a Cockpit, to make a bet which he is not able to answer, he is put into a basket, and pulled up to the ceiling, where he remains suspended during the sport. It is recommended to the Pharo Bankers to institute some such punishment for the Lady 'Levanters.'"--(_Times, Sept. 23, 1997._) * * * * * "To such a height has the spirit of gambling arisen, that at some of the great Tables it is not uncommon to see the stake consist wholly of property _in kind_. A house of furniture was last week lost to a Lady in the neighbourhood of Pall Mall. "The successful party had played against it, the stock of a farm in the County of Essex."--(_Times, Sept. 25, 1797._) * * * * * "At some of our first Boarding Schools, the fair pupils are now taught to play whist, and cassino. Amongst their _winning_ ways, this may not be the least agreeable to Papa and Mamma. "It is calculated, that a clever child, by its cards, and its novels, may pay for its own education."--(_Times, Nov. 2, 1797._) * * * * * "At a boarding-school in the neighbourhood of Moorfields, the mistress complains that she is unable to teach her scholars either Whist, or Pharo. However, she says, they play perfectly well at _Kissino_, and all-fours."--(_Times, Nov. 2, 1797._) * * * * *