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from paying always, and not always being paid
that he conceived disgust at the inclination.
The acquaintances which he had formed at
Westminster School, and at Geneva, together with
his own large fortune, all conspired to introduce
him into whatever society he liked best.---- He was
admitted a member of the club at Arthur's, and
various other clubs of that period----And as some
proof of his notoriety at that time as a man of deep
play; Mr Elwes, the late Lord Robert Bertie, and
some others, are noticed in a scene in the Adventures
of a Guinea, for the frequency of their midnight
orgies. ---- Few men, even from his own
acknowledgment, had played deeper than himself;
and with success more various.----he once played
two days and a night without intermission: and
the room being a small one, the party were nearly
up to the knees in cards.---- He lost ſome thouſands
at that ſitting: ----The late Duke of Northumberland,
who would never quit a table where any hope of
winning remained, was of the party.
Aſter ſitting up a whole night at play, for thouſands, with the moſt faſhionable and profligate men of the time, amidſt ſplendid rooms, gilt ſophas, wax lights, and waiters attendant on his call, he would walk out about four in the morning, not towards home, but into Smithfield, to meet his cattle, which were coming to market, from Thaydon Hall, a farm of his in Eſſex: There would this ſame man, forgetful of the ſcenes he had juſt left, ſtand in the cold or rain, bartering with a carcaſe-
