The noble Marquess, on the night that he lost the money at No. 40 which was closed against him, went full charged with the Tuscan grape, and attacked poor Fielder, _vi et pugnis_, and, at length, was necessitated to leave this house also. Here, all things are in a very high style, served on plate, et cetera. It is supposed that the _customer’s specie_ is melted down to furnish this luxury, which is reversing the ordinary plan: it is, commonly, the family plate which is melted by the gamester into specie; but here it is the current coin which is molten and shaped into salvers, waiters, &c. This is, however, all in the way of business; for we have heard of parson’s wives having silk gowns made out of burial scarves, and we know a presbyterian minister who has converted mourning rings into a splendid piece of plate. Therefore, why should not these conveyancers of property, convey a portion into their wives and mistress’s pockets, or _ridicules_, and transform guineas into gold snuff boxes; or crowns, &c., into a service of plate? The receipts of these houses are immense: We know the wife of a proprietor of a hell, not an hundred miles from St James’s Palace, who was so majestic in her deportment, and so magnificent in her attire, that she gained the name of _Proserpine_. The neighbourhood of Bennet Street is very convenient: if a pigeon be refused admittance on the score of not being known, and receive the _stale answer_—‘Sir, this house is only open to the gentlemen of the Club,’ he has only to _go down_ St James’s Street into the Square or to Pall Mall, and he will find accommodation all the way: the descent is _easy_ even to the most intoxicated dandy or guardsman, who will experience the truth of the ‘_facilis descensus Averni_.’ NO. 10 ST JAMES’S SQUARE. A _low_ HOUSE, HUMOUROUSLY CALLED _the Pigeon hole_. _Firm: Abbot Watson, Davies, Fearlove, Leach, and Holdsworth._ This snug little _trap_ is doing remarkably well. _Fama volat_, that it has netted thirty thousand within twelve months. Whether the exact sum, in so very small a time be true or not, we cannot pretend to say; but we know that a great deal of work is done there, and it is said to have divided twenty-seven thousand in the half-year ending Midsummer 1817. A certain little doctor is a great friend (we do not say a decoy) to the house, and, of course, a great favourite. There are many links to this chain; and a good bill would be done there, or an I.O.U. taken from _gem’men_ of respectability.