ect the management of the other inferior servants (namely):
John Bright, Richard Davis, John Hill, John Vandenvoren, as
box-keepers,--Gilbert Richardson, housekeeper, John Chaplain, regulator,
William Stanley and Henry Huggins, servants that wait on the company at
the said Assembly, William Penny and Joseph Penny as porters thereof.
And all the above-mentioned persons I claim as my domestick servants,
and demand all those privileges that belong to me as a peeress of Great
Britain appertaining to my said Assembly. M. MORDINGTON. Dated 8th Jan.,
1744."

'Resolved and declared that no person is entitled to privilege of
Peerage against any prosecution or proceeding for keeping any public
or common gaming house, or any house, room, or place for playing at any
game or games prohibited by any law now in force.'

That such practice continued in vogue is evident from the police
proceedings subsequently taken against

THE FAMOUS LADY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

This notorious gamestress of St James's Square, at the close of the last
century, actually slept with a blunderbuss and a pair of pistols at her
side, to protect her Faro bank.

On the 11th of March, 1797, her Ladyship, together with Lady E.
Lutterell and a Mrs Sturt, were convicted at the Marlborough Street
Police-court, in the penalty of L50, for playing at the game of Faro;
and Henry Martindale was convicted in the sum of L200, for keeping the
Faro table at Lady Buckinghamshire's. The witnesses had been servants
of her Ladyship, recently discharged on account of a late extraordinary
loss of 500 guineas from her Ladyship's house, belonging to the Faro
bank.(103)

(103) The case is reported in the Times of March 13th, 1797. One cannot
help being struck with the appearance of the Times newspaper at that
period--70 years ago. It was printed on one small sheet, about equal
to a single page of the present issue, and contained four pages, two of
which were advertisements, while the others gave only a short summary of
news--no leader at all.

In the same year, the croupier at the Countess of Buckinghamshire's one
night announced the unaccountable disappearance of the cash-box of the
Faro bank. All eyes were turned towards her Ladyship. Mrs Concannon said
she once lost a gold snuff-box from the table, while she went to speak
to Lord C--. Another lady said she lost her purse there last winter. And
a story was told that a certain lady had taken, _BY MISTAKE_, a cloak
which