The Sun.
London, England, 1815-07-31 00:00:00

DESTRUCTION OF HELL

• Voweeer sarprising the above title may appear,
yet,. in this ease, it is perfectly applicable to the
subject ; for, from the diabolical scenes exhibited
in these haunts of vice, (gaming-houses), and the
consequent misfortune and misery which must in-
evitably attend- the relatives and misguided ire-
qtienters of them, the destruction of the present
one, emphatically termed " Hell," cannot fail
to prove serviceable hi the public at large, and
the-active Magistrate, whose mirtmitting vigilance
has already exterminated the majority of the
gainbling houses in this city, deserves every com-
mendation for such praiseworthy conduct. •
In defiance of all Magisterial-, authority, and
with- a contempt for the examples that have been
tnade„, the noted gaming-house, commonly called
"-Hell," recoil-lin:lice(' its diabolical .work.
Sheriff Smyth, being made acquainted with it,
instructed his officers to do
.their duty, which
they effectually ;accomplished. •It is worthy of
-notice, that the agents of thii daring receptacle of
vice (where the game of hazard was first nur-
tured in this ci:y), contrived a plan, which they
imagined woirld defeat all justice, and formed
themselves into a ('hub, with a deterMination to
exclude all who ti :d not. subscribe as a Member,.
and, of course the difficulty of gaining admittance
became :great ; however, on Thursday morning,
about the hour of two. o'cloCk, the contables suc-
ceeded in eateriog, and after some struggling got
into the garning-room ; here there were assembled
a number of noted characters, all of whom were
arrested, and dealt with as the law directed. She•
riff Smyth ordered the Table to he .destroyed.. It
was a work of very peculiar construction, and must
hate cost a considerable stint. This house, si-
tuated at the Lower Castle-;;ate, \vith'two others,
near the Exchange, have fOr a great number of
years existed, and caused many a heart-rentling
roig to the fond parent and tottering trader, who
remained totally ignorant of what their. misfor-
tunes sprung from. Every lure that could be de-
vised was practised to entice the inexperienced to
-visit those mansions of- profligacy ; all persons
s•lic, went there had supper without rrny charge -;
dinners were-frequently given to the visitors tree
of expellee ; in .short, nothing was left untried to
.seduce the unguarded youth to their pernicious
purposes.—(Dublin Journal.)

In the Court of Ex6tequer., in Ireland, a Lady
leas obtained a' verdict, with 150/. damages, for
slander, in the form
of a letter adtfressed to her
which he c'all;:her " pest
by the defendant,
. ,•
ot society, a most terrible .traducer,"—" a
secret assassin,"--and " a writer of anonymous.
letters.*' The defendant justified, and brought
several witnesses to prove that this was a pretty
the Lady.
accurate description of One of them
described her as " a calcmniator• in the neje,_
bourhood r and a third, " that her character
was that of a mischief-maker.-
The Jury, how-
ever, probably thinking that they must not invade
the exclusive right which Ladies ,have enjoyed
time intmeittorial, of •a free exercise (if the tongue,
Visited the defendant in the'way we have stated,
for having remonstrated against the licentious use
of ",t hat little unruly member, which no man can

tiUne!"