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Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.

CHAPTER XIV
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7, is held by M----g, a map-seller, living at Charing Cross; Carl--s, formerly an under- strapper at Ben--t's, living at King's Road, Chelsea; H----ll, a tallow-chandler, living at No.

8, Bury-street; and his brother, a brick-layer, residing somewhere off Grosvenor Place.

These fellows have carried on their depredations for some time, but now have closed for awhile, being one of the houses against whom a Jew, named Portugal John, and another named the Young Black Diamond, have commenced proceedings, for sums had and received, and by indictment.
No.

28, in the same street, is the property of one O---- d, formerly a menial servant, and not long ago a porter to B----l.
These examples shew by incontestible inference, that the keepers of those tables have an advantage, which renders their success certain, while it fleeces the men who attend them.

We always have seen these Proprietors in the same unchangeable affluence, driving their equipages, keeping their country houses, &c.


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