The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-01

Nearly eight years after the famous election
at Westminster, when she personally can
vassed for Fox, Mrs. Crewe was still in per-
feetion, with a son one and twenty, who
looked like her brother. The form of her
face was exquisitely lovely, her complexion
radiant 81 know not, Miss Burney writes,
''any female in her first youth who could
bear the comparison. She uglifes every one
near her."
During the last half of the last century
many titled ladies not only gambled, but
kept gaming houses. One of these actually
appealed to the House of Lords for protec-
tion against the intrusion of officers into her
establishment on the plea of her peerage
The following record of it is in the Journal
of the House of Lords-
'Dte Lame, 290 4pTiliS, 1775.-GAMING.-
A bill for preventing the excessive and deceit
full use of it having been brought from the
Commons, information was given to the
House that Mr.. Burdus, Chairman of the
Quarter sessions for the city and liberty of
Westminster, was at the door. He was called
in, and gave an account that the claims of
privilege of peerage were made and insisted
on by the Ladies Mordington and Casselis, in
order to intimidate the peace officers from
doing their duty in suppressing the public
gaming-houses kept by the said ladies'
And the said Burdus thereupon deli
vered in an instrument of writing of said
Lady Mordington, containing the claim she
made of privilege for her officers and SER
wants employed by her in her said gaming
house, as follows:-I, Dame Mary Baroness
of Mordington, do hold house in the Great
Piazza, Covent Garden, for and as an AS
sembly, where all persons of credit are at
liberty to frequent and play at such diver
sions as are used at other Assemblys. And 1
have hired Joseph Dewberry, VIM. Horsley,
Ham Cropper, and George Sanders, as my
servants or managers (under me) thereof.
/ have given them orders to direct the
management of the other inferior servants,
(namely) John Bright @ John Hill John Van
denvoren, as box-keepers, Gilbert Richard
son, housekeeper John Chaplain, regulator;
William Stanley and Henry Higgins, SER
wants that wait on the company at the said
Assembly; William Penny and JOS Penny,
as porters thereof. And all the above-men-
toned persons 1 claim as my domestick SER
wants, and demand all those privileges that
belong to me as a peeress of Great Bri-
tain appertaining to my said Assembly. NJ.
MoRD1NGToN. Dated Sth JAM, 1774." But
the House declared against her.
Proceedings were also taken against the
famous Lady Buckinghamshire, a notorious
gamestress who, at the close of the last GEN.
tury, actually slept with a blunderbuss and
| pair of pistols at her side to protect her
bank. On the 18th March, 1897, her lady
ship, together with Lady E. Lutterell and a
Mrs. Sturt, were convicted at the police court
and fined $50 for playing at faro; and
Henry Martindale was convicted and
fined e200 for keeping the faro table at
Lady Buckinghamshire This fellow
soon afterward ''burst up and went into
bankruptcy, owing e32S, 900, besides ''debts
of honor" amounting to G150,O00. Going
cup for an odd So, 500, 900 far surpasses any
''blackleg" failure that has yet occurred in
this republican country. His assets yielded
about seven cents on the dollar.
Beau Nash was in his palmy day noted
player, but in his last years abandoned it..
| When the Earl of L was a youth he was
passionately fond of play. Nash undertook to
cure him. Conscious of his superior skill, he
engaged the Earl in single play. His lordship
lost his estate, equipage, everything! The
generous Nash returned all, only stipulating
for the payment of $4,000 whenever he might
think proper to demand it, Some time after
his lordships death, Nash's affairs being on
the wane, he demanded it of his heirs, who
paid it without hesitation.
The corporation of Bath so highly respected
Nash that the Chamber voted marble statue
of him, which was erected in the Pump Room,
between the busts of Newton and Pope. This
caused Lord Chesterfeld's stinging epigran
concluding with these lines:-
''The statue placed these busts between
| Gives satire all its strength
Wisdom and W.T. are little seen,
| But Folly at full length"
George Selwyn, one of the remarkable En-
glishmen of a hundred years ago, marred al
otherwise exceedingly fine character by his
passion for gaming. He had another peculiar
characteristic-a morbid interest in the
details of human suffering, and taste fol
witnessing criminal executions. When the
4 first Lord Holland was on his death-bet
he was told that Selwyn, who had LIVED
on terms of the closest intimacy with him
had called to inquire after his health:-
'"The next time Mr.. Selwyn calls" sale
he, ''show him up; if l am alive, shal
be delighted to see him; if 1 am dead, he viii
be glad to see me-" When some ladies ban
tered him on his want of feeling in attending
TO see the terrible Lord Lovat' head cut off =
''Why," he said 81 made amends by goin,
to the undertaker's to see it sewed on again.
And yet this was the same man who delighted
in the first words and in the sunny looks o
childhood; whose friendship seems to hav,
partaken of all the softness of female affec
ton; and whose heart was never hardenet
against the wretched and oppressed.
The following are some of Selwyns joke
relating to gambling
One night, at Whites, observing the Post
MASTER General Sir Edward Fawkener, losing
large sum at piquet, Selwyn, pointing t
the successful player, remarked, 'See now
he is robbing the nadtG!'
On another occasion, in 1776, observing
Mr.. Ponsonby, the Speaker of the Irisl
, House of Commons, tossing about bank-bill
at a hazard-table at Newmarket-"Look!
he said; ''how easily the Speaker passes tn
money bills"
On one of the walters at Arthur's Club