The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-12 00:00:00

INFATUATION OF GAMING.

(The following is the article alluded to, copied from
Bell's Life in London, April 26.)
It is a fact well known to many most respectable
characters, that a gentleman of rank in the army is
now suffering the privation of " the common com-
forts of a gentleman," and is often reduced to tine
greatest distress from the want of means to meet the
" necessary expenditure" for his maintenance—who,
• on the Ist day of January, 1832, will possess an
annual income " of Princely magnitude," provided
• he can, and does, make an affidavit before a Magis-
trate, in compliance with the " deed," by which
many thousands per annum will devolve to him !
viz., " That he has not raised, nor caused to be
raised, directly or indirectly, in any way or manner
whatever, any sum of money-, goods, chattels, or
other property whatsoever, from the Ist day of
January, 1822, to the tat day of January, 1832, for
or in consideration of, payment to be made from any
part of the estate or money by the said deed to be,
come his property ; and that he hath not made,
given, nor executed, any promissory (written or
verbal) engagement to pay or reimburse any loan of
money, goods, chattels, or property, by the said
deed transferred, given, and made over to him, the
said , upon the due and faithful fulfilmeoit
the conditions herein imposed and 17.0 quired; and
which, in fact, amount to this :concise and plain sti-.
pulation—that hp, ti:Ae said shall not, be.
tween the Ist day of January, 1821, and the Ist
day of January, 1832, derive arty pecuniary or other
advantage whatever, from, or in consideration of,
thereafter being able to liquidate or repay the same
from any part or portion of the property herein Let
fore stated and described; and, in fli",tire of such
oath, the said property shall that case, be dis-
posed of as. follows—viz." &c. &c. The deed is.
in consequence of a knowledge that the gentleman
intended to be enriched at.a future period has fatally
indulged an infatuated propesity to gamble, which
the " donor" desires to guard against encouraging,
having pledged himself to an only eliild„.wlw-n dying,
to make his sole heir; provided, at a certaiej
age, and after a tri;',l of ten years' privations, he can
conscientiously swear that he has not availed himself
of the prospect of becoming " a man of fortene,7,l
to raise money for gaining purposes, or fob the sup-
ply of those comforts or necessaries which his pro-
pensity to gamieg might depriVe him of. The
gentleman has hitherto abstained, and the peti;o4i
now so short, that his friends ente:tF,in sanguine
hopes he will be able to take the prescribed oath,
although his continued practice of gambling excites
their fears, and affords those who esteem him very

great pain, as Ile is often seen and known to be
pennyless, without the means of -raising money, or
of borrowing it on any promise or engagement,
which might prevent his taking the oath required.
Such is the horrible infatuation of the " dice-box,"
that few are able ever to relinquish gambling when
once initiated Extraordinary as it may seem, it is
nevertheless true, that this gentleman, who, in a
few years, may be master of an income of more than
90,0001. per annum, and who possesses as cultivated
an understanding as the generality of the best-in-
formed Englishmen, is so completely devoted to th
pernicious vice, which (paradoxical as it appears)
he deprecates publicly and emphatically, that lie
cannot refrain from sacrificing his time, and present
limited income, to the " itch for gaming !"

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

The premises were crowded yesterday with speculators
of every class, and a gond share of general business was
done at odds, which shew that the three dead heat housfs
are held in some estimation. Clotilde and Green Alanfle
were backed to a very large amount. The betting dosed
thus :

DERBY.
5 to 2 agst Patron (taken) 17 to 1 agst Ebury
7 to 1 agst Morris Dancer 17 to I agst Camel
12 to 1 agst Espagnolle 20 to 1 agst Windrush
13 to 1 agst Will-o'-the-Wisp 26 to 1 agst Prince Eugene
(taken) 33 to 1 agst Dabs
13 to 1 agst Rhoda 40 to I agst Canvass
30 to 1 cyst Sycorax (t.,ken).
OAKS.

9 to I agst Varna
I I to 2 agst Green Mantle
7 to 1 agst Monte
35 to I ag:

8 to 1 agst Clotilde
16 to 1 agst Luss
16 to 1 agst Tickle
it Device.

The Lord Mayor has nominated the follow
ing gentlemen for the office of Sheriff :—WyNx ELLII,
Esq., citizen anti weaver; PETER POPE FIRTH, Esq.,
citizen and haberdasher; JAMES COCSENS, Esq., citizen
and glover; WM. HENRY POLAND, Esq., citizen and
painter-stainer. ; WM. HENRY RICHARDSON, Esq., citizen
and vintner.

We are informed that ANTHONYEA AIMO ND,
Esq., barrister-at-law, has been appointed Advocate-
General of Bombay, in the room of Sir W. DEWA R, who
has received the appointment of Chief Justice there.—
Morning Paper.

JOHN IGGULDEN, Esq. has been appointed
one of the Deputy Registers of the Prerogative Gala of
Canterbury, vacant by the death of GEORGE JENNER,
Esq., an appointment which has given general satistacti.,n
to the profession.

At a Special Court, held at the Trinity-house,
on Tower-hill, on Saturday last, hie Grace the Duke of
WELLINGTON was unanimously elected an Elder Prother
of that Corporation, in the room of the late Earl of LI-
VERPOOL.

Yesterday the despatches for Madras and
Bengal, by the ship Thomas Grenville, Captain CIrA
SHEA, were closed at the East India House, and delivered
to the purser of that ship.

We are happy to say that an improvemnr,
although very trifling, has taken place here this wecli iui
the prices of weaving. On light cotton goods, in gener 1,
there has been an advance of one-eighth of a penny per ell,
and on the finer qualities one farthing. Silk weaving and
green cloths remain Ivithent alteration.—Perth Courier.

The honourable fraternity of black legs are
looking forward to the approaching Epsom meeting, as the
only means of making up for the unexampled dulness of
the late London winter.

Four young Chinese, who lately arrived at
Calais, have excited much attention, as they wear their
national dress. They make use only of the left hand, and,
as they had never before seen any apples they fAt much
embarrassed how to peel them. The day after their arrival
they attended mass with much devotion, holding a rosary
in one hand, and a Chinese book in the other, the leaven
of which they turned over from the left side to the right.
From Calais they proceeded to the great seminary at
Amiens, where they are to finish their studies.

A few days ago, HELEN, the wife of Trios.
PENDLEBURY, of Hindley, near Blackburn, was examined
by Dr. ASPINALL, of that place, it being suspected that
she had recently been delivered. The same medical gen-
tleman and the governor of the workhouse afterwaris
commenced a strict search, when they discovered, con-
cealed beneath the floor of the room where the woman was
weaving, the bodies of two new-born children. On Wed-
nesday an inquest was held at the Lord Nelson, Hindley ;
several surgeons attended, and the result was that a ver-
dict of "Wilful murder" was returned against the inhuman
mother. She will be sent to Lancaster Castle to await
her trial at the next assizes.—Munchester Gazette.

The young man, near Methveh, who, No
lately noticed, had been claimed by a woman from Paisley
as her lawful husband the same day he was to have mar-
ried a second time, met his death last week, while charging
a shot in a whin rock, on the premises of Tullybelton.—
The shot went off prematurely and carried away part of
his dress and bruised his body, so that ho lingered in great
pain till Friday morning last.—Perth Courier.

On Wednesday se'nnight, the wife of Mr. :101l N
GOODWIN, carpenter, of Borstall, near Whitstable, ex_
pired, after giving birth to a fine child (the eleventh.),
When the melancholy event was disclosed to the husband,
it hai such an effect on him as to bring on violent hysteric
fits, which continued at intervals two or three days. Ills
sufferings, however, were so acute, that he dirt!, sop ose4
of a broken heart, in something less than a week after the
demise of his wife.—Kentish Gazette.

BRIDGEWATER, MAY 5.—A gentleman in
this town, who keeps a breeding sow, moves her at far.
rowing-time into an obscure corner of the adjoining pat ish,
and when the delivery has taken place, he puts the young
in a basket, and the sow follows them home. Our Alarm.,
who receives the small tithes, is thus cheated of his pig.
Should the Parson of a neighbouring parish discover thte
trick, be is not unlikely to try its legality. The owner of
the pigs is considered at least worth 40,000/.—Sherborhe
Journal.

On Wednesday morning an inhabitant bf this
town was arrested and conveyed to the county gaol at tlif
suit of a brother-in-law; in the afternoon he .K.nt a m;!,:-
senger to his house for two chairs, a table, a betl, &c. with
which he was immediately supplied —but lo ! no sooner
did the prison (loth open the next morning, than in
marched a couple of bailiffs,who, without ceremony, seized,
packed up and carried off all the articles above enumerated;,.
—and this was done under an execution, issued utt the
suit of another breVier-ill-lato I— Cambridge Indepen-
dent Press,

Business has been inactive through the week
at the same time, we believe, no change has tak-en place in
the pikes of either piece goods ne yarns. Probably less
business has been done in consequence of the agitated state
of the public mind, caused by the serious and lamentable
disturbances which have occurred in many different parts
of this district, anti of which we bawl given a full account
in another part of our paper. Tom, railure of an titi-esta-
Wished and respectable firm it I.)..thlin has been announced
this week. We have no heard the amount of their en-
gagements, but we Anaerstand they are not sea heavy Isere,
as might, franc, the state of their credit, and general, es-
tent of ther trade, have been expected.—Manc ester Ga.:.
Some Limo ago a respectable lady from Glas-
gow, having been on a visit at the house of a friend in
Edinburgh, fancied a beautiful cat of the Muscovy species.
which graced the fireside of her hostess. The latter, being
pressingly solicited, at length consented to present her
visitcr with the animal., ;.nil puss was accordingly enclosed
in a basket, and 'transported along with her new pro-
prietrix in the inside of a carriage to the city of Glasgow.
Fe; seven or eight weeks after the animal's nil ieal at her
new residence she was cloaely watched, hat, not being its
conciled to the change, she should mike her escape. Ae
the terminee.ion of that time she littered two kittens; suit
this circumstance was considered a sufficient guaraotee foe
her remaining, for soma weeks at least, in her ine,oi hnme.
Some slays afterwards, however, puss, with 'oath her kit.
tens, disappeared, and no traces could lee tibtained of the
place to which she had been removes until about eight
aays front the time of her disameaoote from live Glasgow
rssidenee, when her well Veown n;ew was rece)geised by
her former mistress, et the door of her drawine.rosim.
The door wee, opened; and there were seen poor puss
with bee brace of kittens—they in excellent condition-_
gut she worn to a -skeleton. The distance betwieet Edio-
burgh and Glasgow is upwath of forty miles ; and as the
sagacious animal could only carry one of ber kittens sticit
a disjenee at a time, she 'maze, after having placed the ono
in some place of cunecalmeat in Edinburgh, have lee..
turned to Ginn* -for the :other—thus travelling i:llJ-
gether upwards. of 120 miles.' There is no doubt but
puss chose the darkness and of the night as the
most el;g,ible season for the perfirmaiive of her singular
journey.—Elgin CoirZer,,