“For behaving in a scandalous, infamous manner, such as is unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in conspiring, with a certain other person, to draw in and seduce Lord Beauchamp to game and play with them, for the purposes of gain and advantage; and that, in pursuance of such conspiracy, he, Lieutenant Stanhope (having engaged Lord Beauchamp to come to his quarters in Paris, on Sunday, the 17th day of March 1816, upon an invitation to dine with him), did, in company and concert of such other person, draw in, seduce, and prevail upon Lord Beauchamp to play with them at a certain game of chance with cards, for very high stakes, whereby, on an account kept by them, Lieut. Stanhope, and the said other person, or one of them, of the losses and gains in the course of the play, he, Lieut. Stanhope, claimed to have won from Lord Beauchamp the sum of £8000 and upwards, and the said other person claimed to have won off Lord Beauchamp the further sum of £7000 and upwards. “That, in further pursuance of the said concert and conspiracy, he, Lord Beauchamp, at the same time and place, was required by Lieut. Stanhope to write and sign two promissory notes, or engagements, to pay at the expiration of three years the said several sums of money so claimed to have been won off him, Lord Beauchamp, by Lieut. Stanhope and the said other person respectively. “That he, Lord Beauchamp, was, at that time, about sixteen years of age, ignorant of, and unused to play, and affected by the wine he had been prevailed upon to take by the parties.” Lieut. Stanhope was found guilty and dismissed from the army. The _Annual Register_ also gives numerous cases of duels arising from gambling, but they are, comparatively, uninteresting, and are all of the same type, paltry quarrels over the gaming-table. We have a metrical description of gambling about this time supposed to have been written by a gambler who had to retire to France, and I here give a portion of it.[42] “Ah me! what sad pangs ev’ry fibre now feels, When I view the success of my exquisite _deals_, My _cutting_ and _shuffling_, perform’d with such ease: (And their talent is rare who can _cut_ when they please). Ev’ry bet at Macao was decidedly mine; For, faithful to me, was the snug winning Nine; And the dice-box, alike, against Squire or Lord, Brought whatever I pleased on the fortunate board. Yet exil’d, in spite of success, to this land; I have made of my gains but a very _bad hand_, For here, gallant Greeks! my sad fortune deplore, No _pigeon_ takes wing to the Gallican shore; And the nation, composed of sly slippery elves, Admits of no _plucking_, except by themselves; Whilst Bourbon the pious, to vermin-like rats, Grants Licences special, for _doing the flats_.