ENGLISH GANSLgSes HOUSES.
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It was at much earlier hour in the morn
ing, than you sober New Yorkers are famili
ar with, that c. and myself put our
selves into hackney coach and ordered the
driver to set US down at No. -, Pail Mall
After knocking at the door very significant
ly, we heard some chains let down and bolts
withdrawn, and we were admitted into a
hall, at the further extremity of which was
an iron door, with small view-hole in the
centre. Through this we were reconnoiter-
ed for minute or two, when that door was
also opened, and we walked into an anti
room, where three men were sitting at a ta
bic, engaged, as it would appear, in reading
newspapers. c. being pretty we'll
known, presented me as his friend, and we
were then conducted by one of the men up
flight of tairs, through two other strong
doors, and ushercd into a splendid suit OF "a
partments filled with gaming tables and
gamesters. Before describe the play, let
me explain the meaning of these bolts, bars
and precautions.


Gaming is, in this country, expressly for
hidden b, law The Secretary OF State has
issued imperative commands to the police
magistrates to suppress the public gaming
houses In several instances informations
have been made on oath, warrants granted,
and the Bow-street justices, with hosse of
constables, made their way by stratagem or
force, into the houses, and sent all the in
mates, without respect of persons,' to the
watch-house, and some of them afterwards
to the tread mill. Hence these numerous
precautions and fortifcations on the part OF
the keepers. Yet they are not always suffi-
cient to Illustrate the cunning of the Bow
| street officers These fellows have some
times contrived the most ingenious methods
of getting into the houses. One of them, in
the disguise of Russian officer of distinc-
tion with fierce whiskers, ,mustachois, spurs,
&c. presented himself at the door, and with
broken unintelligible English, and now and