METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. From June 27, to July 26, 1824, both inclusive. 101 101101 23 102 101 101 23 102 1014 23 12 238 94 93101 101 931012 1014 3931012 101 106 22 101 105 22 13 237 944 14 237 94 1003 1063 100 106 22 19 Hol. 84 pm.37 34 pm. 34 33 pm. pm. 33 34 pm. 80 pm. 33 38 pm. 3234 pm. 76 pm.34 41 pm. 33 35 pm. 77 pm. 37 45 pm.35 41 pm. 84 pm.42 50 pm. 4247 pm. 80 pm. 48 39 pm. 43 pm. 291482 pm. 40 46 pm. 42 40 pm. 83 pm. 40 46 pm.43 40 pm. 29181 pm. 39 46 pm.41 39 pm. 2914 83 pm. 41 37 pm. 4037 pm. 290 83 pm. 40 45 pm.41 40 pm. 290 82 pm. 35 33 289 86 pm. 39 44 pm. 4039 pm. 86 pm. 37 43 pm. 39 37 pin. 89 pm.38 44 pm. 3840 pm. 89 pm.39 42 pm.39 40 pm. 89 pm. 39 43 pm: 8941 pm. 287 84 pm. 40 45 pm.41 40 pm. 286 86 pm.40 45 pm./41 40 pm. RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. 104, Corner of Bank-buildings, Cornhill. JOHN NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. A pleasing and authentic Memoir of the worthy Schoolmaster, mentioned in p. 2, compiled from materials communicated by his son Captain Joseph Budworth, may be seen in Mr. Nichols's "Literary Anecdotes," vol. iii. p. 332. He had a sister who was almost as good a scholar as himself. She resided in Cheshire; and lived to a good old age. She was too learned, and perhaps too plain, to be married. CLIONAS says, "the following satirical verses on one of the celebrated Randle Holmes are sent you, not from their justice but their point. They are taken from Harl. MSS. 1301, f. 26, and are called in the Harleian Catalogue, Satyrical Verses on one Randel, deceased.' As the other papers in that MS. are all dated before the year 1632, the verses probably related to the first Randle Holme, who died in 1655, and were most likely written during his lifetime, by one who disliked him, as an appropriate epitaph. "On Randle Holme. For Randle is in his grave." C. W. asks why the Royal Dukes of Sussex and of Cambridge have the one a Scotch Earldom (Inverness), and an Irish Barony (Arklow); and the other an Irish Earldom (Tipperary), and a Scotch Barony (Culloden) as titles; whereas the Duke of York has a Scotch Dukedom (Albany), and an Irish Earldom (Ulster); the Duke of Clarence a Scotch Dukedom (St. Andrew's), and an Irish Earldom (Munster); the Duke of Cumberland a Scotch Dukedom (Tiviotdale), and an Irish Earldom (Armagh); and the Duke of Glocester a Scotch Dukedom (Edinburgh), and an Irish Earldom (Connaught). The same Correspondent inquires why the Counties of Flint, Denbigh, and Radnor, in Wales, are the only counties in the Principality mentioned in Church briefs? An OLD SUBSCRIBER solicits information respecting the family of Sir Thomas Hooke of Flanchford, co. Surrey, created a Baronet July 22, 1662, by Charles II. He believes he was descended in a right line from Richard Hooke, who married a daughter of Payne, esq. of Eaton, in that county, and which family afterwards settled at Bramshot, co. Hants, about the year 1600. Sir Thomas left an only son, Sir Hele, who succeeded him, and three daughters, one of which (the youngest) Anne, married William brother to Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, bart. and had issue three sons and two daughters. The father of Sir Thomas Hooke married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Hele, esq. of Easton in Gordon, alias St. George, co. Somerset, who purchased the manor of Flanchford in 1656, which was conveyed to Sir Thomas in 1662, and from which he took his title. Who did Thomas marry? And, was his son, Sir Hele, ever married? J. I. K. observes, "in looking over your Magazines, I saw, in the one for April 1796, p. 291, an account of George Musgrave's family of Nettlecombe, esq. where it is said, that on the death of Thomas, the last of the male line, in 1766, that Julians the heiress married the late Sir James Langham, bart, &c. &c.' Now it ought not to be understood, that she was an heiress in her own right, as James Keigwin, esq. late of Camborne, was then living, being the lineal descendant of Juliana, the eldest daughter of the same George Musgrave, stiled therein Colonel of the Somerset Militia, and was the heir at law, on the extinction of the male line in Thomas; and would have succeeded to the landed property of his great grandfather, had not the said Thomas Musgrave suffered a recovery, as it is supposed, in 1763; cut off the entail, and gave it, as I apprehend, to Lady Langham's second son-John Keigwin, who married Margaret Giffard, was the great-grandfather of the above-mentioned James Keigwin, the lineal descendant and heir of that family, she being, as it is correctly stated in your Magazine for July 1823, the daughter of Joan, youngest daughter of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard, the common ancestor of several of that name, who settled at Kentsford, Cathangre, Pillesdon, Yale, and Trent, in Somersetshire, and of Felbrigge in Norfolk, and from whom was descended that celebrated statesman Sir William Wyndham, leader of the Tories against the Walpole Administration: he married Catharine Seymour, second daughter of Charles, the proud Duke of Somerset, as he is called; and was the most accomplished and finished statesman of his day; and from this branch is descended the very excellent and most noble the present Earl of Egremont. James Keigwin left a son and two daughters, the former being at this present time` Rector of Withiel, who has also a son and two daughters, now living." E. P.'s paper in our next. It has been unavoidably postponed. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. THE AUGUST, 1824. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ON THE GAMING HOUSES AT PARIS. By DON SMr. URBAN, Aug. 1. HERE are nine public Gaming Houses at Paris, licensed by the French Government, and the holders of them pay annually to the Government six millions of francs (250,000l.) for permission to keep them. The capital daily appropriated as a bank for the whole, is about 30,000l. The first in consideration is the "Salon," in the Rue Grange Battelliere; then "Frescati," in the Rue Richelieu; and subsequently No. 9, 154, and others, in the Palais Royal, and different parts of Paris. The games played are, rouge et noir, roulette, and hazard. The dealers of the cards, and those who officiate at roulette and hazard, are not allowed to play themselves, but receive a Napoleon per day (16s. 8d.) as their pay. The "Salon" alone requires an introduction from one of the members to the French Marquis, who presides, before a stranger can enter. When a stranger has been introduced, there is usually an invitation sent him to dine at the Salon on Thursday, on which day a magnificent dinner is given gratis to all the members. Every delicacy is provided, and the choicest wines-Champagne in abundance, which is drunk only in tumblers. Too many have found to their sorrow, that this dinner, nominally gratis, has cost them many hundred pounds! Dinner being over, the company adjourn to the tables below, where the play goes on briskly. After dinner a man is less on his guard, and Champagne is a stimulus to play with freedom and resolution. Of this the "chèf" of the Salon is well aware, and some of the numerous waiters in a Spanish Traveller. attendance are ready to lend money to those who may have lost all which they had about them. This arrangement, which at first appears hazardous, is in reality productive of immense profit, for if lost (which is too often the case), the money is in fact paid back to the concern; and if the borrower should win, he usually refunds the loan before leaving the room; and if unsuccessful, it remains for him to repay the waiters as a debt of honour." Lending money to a losing gamester is like attempting to fill a leaky vessel. This system of lending is productive of ruin to many who play; for a man can retire without being hurt, after losing only the money which he had in his pocket; but he may lose thousands if he continue to borrow; for there is a disposition in gamesters to pursue a run of ill luck, and the feelings are actuated by a sort of frenzy and spirit of revenge to regain that which they feel as if unjustly deprived of.-Let a man win, and the gratification he feels renders him almost incapable of leaving the tables; or if he retires, it is only to come again; so that he must lose the more he plays. It is like buying all the tickets in a lottery. A short time since, a foreign Prince won at the Salon 10,000l.; with such a sum many a man would have thought himself content, but to win is productive of nearly as much ill as to lose,— Quo plus sunt potæ, plus sitiuntur aquæ.' This young man was so intoxicated with success, that he distressed himself by not only losing that sum, but an additional 8,0001. At two o'clock in the morning a supper is provided "gratis" at the Sa lon; 100 Gaming Houses, Paris.-Bramdean Roman Pavement. lon; this hour is probably chosen, because few come to supper, except to play, as the opera and theatres shut much earlier, and, except the ". gamester," most persons have retired. The Salon continues open until five or six o'clock in the morning. At the Salon only rouge et noir and hazard are played. An English nobleman well known as a great frequenter both of the Salon and Frescati, lost a short time since 40,000l. At Frescati rouge et noir and roulette are played both day and night.Here neither dinner nor supper is provided, but a number of "women of the town "of superior appearance are allowed to enter, and they attract numbers of persons. Twice or thrice in the year a magnificent ball and supper is given "gratis," and to add to the splendour, several of the opera girls are hired to dance. It might be said, in reference to the ruin occasioned by play after dinner at the Salon, and the general bad consequence of a habit of playing, that a dinner at the "Salon" operates as poison," and in the same way, the beauty met with at Frescati," may 66 be considered as "fatal." The gaming houses in the Palais Royal are open day and night, and free entrance is allowed to all who choose to go in. They offer no inducement beyond the hope of gain. sa How inconsistent and absurd on the part of Louis XVIII. to forbid on Sunday night the opera being performed, when every night in the week these hells are open to the public! What mockery, when we read that the " cred cause of Religion alone" induced the Duke of Angloulême to invade Spain with a numerous army, when in the Capital of his uncle such depravity of morals, and frequent self-destruction, are occasioned by licensed and encouraged gaming! The number of suicides in Paris are calculated at one per day, and it is considered that gaming is one of the first and most powerful causes for such destruction of human life. Before any one embarks his fortune at play, let him consider the impossibility of winning for a continuance, because the chances are largely in favour of the tables; were it otherwise, how could 250,000l. be paid to Go [Aug. vernment? How is Champagne and a splendid dinner for forty or more persons to be provided weekly at the Salon?-And the balls, suppers, and the beauties of Frescati, who offers these to the public? The losers!!— And who wins? No one!! The gamester is always poor; for whatever he wins he considers as brass, and whatever he loses he values as gold! It is as reasonable to expect a “cherry clack," veered by "every wind," to maintain the precision of the movement of the wheel of a steam-engine, as for any one to believe he can possibly win at any of the public Gaming Tables. Last year the principal holder of the Gaming Tables, after paying every expense, is said to have netted 20,000l. MOSAIC PAVEMENT. Mr. URBAN, Aug. 3. was informed of the late discoNa journey through Hampshire, very of a Roman villa at Bramdean, near Alresford in that county, and my curiosity led me to visit the spot where this discovery was made. I need not add, that my journey thither was most amply repaid, and my antiquarian zeal most highly gratified, on the inspection of these splendid remains of the Roman æra. The spot selected for this villa was such as the Romans usually chose for their villas and stations, viz. a gentle elevation, not an elevated hill. This appears to have been a distinguished villa, not a station; for I could not hear of any agger of circumvallation, which generally accompanied the latter. The villas of the Romans were never on a very large scale; and their apartments were of small dimensions ; of these, two only merit our attention, which were decorated with rich tessellated floors, and in a tolerable state of preservation. The first that meets our eye is of a square form, within which is an octagon divided into eight compartments, with a central one. This consists of a circle, enclosed within which are two intersecting squares, containing a head of Medusa. The eight compartments are each decorated with the half-length figures of the following deities, viz.:— Venus with her glass; Mars in armour, with his lance; Mercury with his ca duceus; |