7. A Squib,--who was a puff of a lower rank, serving at half salary, whilst learning to deal. 8. A Flasher,--to swear how often the bank had been stripped by lucky players. 9. A Dunner,--who went about to recover money lost at play. 10. A Waiter,--to fill out wine, snuff candles, and attend the room. 11. An Attorney,--who was generally a Newgate solicitor. 12. A Captain,--who was to fight any gentleman who might be peevish at losing his money. 13. An Usher,--who lighted the gentlemen up and down stairs, and gave the word to the porter. 14. A Porter,--who was generally a soldier of the Foot Guards. 15. An Orderly-man,--who walked up and down the outside of the door, to give notice to the porter, and alarm the house at the approach of the constables. 16. A Runner,--who was to get intelligence of the Justices' meetings. 17. Link Boys, Coachmen, Chairmen, Drawers, and others, who brought the first intelligence of Justices' meetings, of constables going out, at half a guinea reward. 18. Common Bail, Affidavit Men, Ruffians, Bravos, Assassins, &c. &c. It may be proper to remark that the above list of officials was only calculated for gambling houses of an inferior order. In these it is evident that the fear of interruption and the necessity for precaution presided over the arrangements. There were others, however, which seemed to defy law, to spurn at justice, and to remain secure, in every way, by the 'respectability' of their frequenters. These were houses supported at an amazing expense--within sight of the palace--which were open every night and all night--where men of the first rank were to be found gambling away immense sums of money, such as no man, whatever his fortune might be, could sustain. 'What, then,' says a writer at the time, 'are the consequences? Why, that the UNDONE part of them sell their VOTES for bread, and the successful give them for honours. 'He who has never seen the gamblers' apartments in some of the magnificent houses in the neighbourhood of St James's, has never seen the most horrid sight that the imagination of a thinking man can conceive. 'A new pack of cards is called for at every deal, and the "old" ones are then thrown upon the floor, and in such an immense quantity, that the writer of this letter has seen a very large room nearly ANKLE-DEEP, in the greatest part of it, by four o'clock in the morning! Judge, then, to what height they must have risen by daylight.'