"The Pharo Trade is likely to experience a more severe check from the recent refusal of some fashionable Gamesters to liquidate their debts, than from the accumulated terrors of Police persecution. If the punters won't pay, the dealers may as well shut up shop."—(Times, Sept. 23, 1797.)
"If a man should happen, in a Cockpit, to make a bet which he is not able to answer, he is put into a basket, and pulled up to the ceiling, where he remains suspended during the sport. It is recommended to the Pharo Bankers to institute some such punishment for the Lady 'Levanters.'"—(Times, Sept. 23, 1997.)
"To such a height has the spirit of gambling arisen, that at some of the great Tables it is not uncommon to see the stake consist wholly of property in kind. A house of furniture was last week lost to a Lady in the neighbourhood of Pall Mall.
"The successful party had played against it, the stock of a farm in the County of Essex."—(Times, Sept. 25, 1797.)
"At some of our first Boarding Schools, the fair pupils are now taught to play whist, and cassino. Amongst their winning ways, this may not be the least agreeable to Papa and Mamma.
"It is calculated, that a clever child, by its cards, and its novels, may pay for its own education."—(Times, Nov. 2, 1797.)
"At a boarding-school in the neighbourhood of Moorfields, the mistress complains that she is unable to teach her scholars either Whist, or Pharo. However, she says, they play perfectly well at Kissino, and all-fours."—(Times, Nov. 2, 1797.)
"So completely has gambling got the better of dancing, that at a private Ball, last week, a Gentleman asking a young Lady, from Bath, to dance the two next dances, she very ingenuously replied,'Yes, if you will play two rubbers at Cassino.'"—(Times, Dec. 22, 1797.)
Faro's Daughters.