“_2 May 1793._ A _Banking_ Lady, in St James Square, is about to commence a prosecution, because it is said, that there was much _filching_ at her FARO table. The house was quite in an uproar, on Tuesday night, in consequence of a paragraph that appeared in a Morning Paper of the preceding day. The Lady _vows_ she will call in the aid of an _Attorney_ to _support her reputation_: and observes, that the _credit_ of her house will suffer, if such reports are permitted to go unpunished. The _Faro Ladies_ are, in the sporting phrase, almost _done up_. Jewels, trinkets, watches, laces, &c., are often at the pawnbrokers, and scarcely anything is left to raise money upon except their _pads_.[34] If justice is to be _hoodwinked_, and _gambling_ and _sharking_ permitted, why not make it an article of revenue, as in foreign countries, and lay a heavy tax on it.” “_2 Apr. 1794._ Lord HAMPDEN’S _Faro Bank_ is broken up for the present season. Lady Buckinghamshire, Mrs Sturt and Mrs Concannon alternately divide the _Beau monde_ at their respective houses. Instead of having two different hot suppers at _one_ and _three_ in the morning, the _Faro Banks_ will now scarcely afford bread and cheese and porter. “One of the Faro Banks in St James Square lost £7000 last year by bad debts. A young son of Levi is a considerable debtor to one of them; but not finding it convenient to pay what is not recoverable by law, he no longer appears in those fashionable circles.” “_4 Ap. 1794._ It is impossible to conceive a more complete system of fraud and dishonour than is practised every night at the _Faro banks_. Though every table has four croupiers, yet the Bank holders find that double that number are necessary to watch all the little tricks and artifices of some of the _fashionable punters_. But Mrs G—— beats all her associates in the art of doubling, or cocking a card.” “_25 June 1794._ The Faro Banks being no longer a profitable game, certain Ladies in St James Square have substituted another instead of it, called _Roulet_: but it is, in fact, only the old game of E.O. under a different title.” “_30 Dec. 1795._ It is to the credit of the rising generation of females, that they have unanimously quitted those infamous meetings, called Private Pharoes, where some of their shameless Mammas, and the faded reputations of the present age, still expose their vices, and cheat the boys who have not been long enough in the army to wear out their first cockades.”