“A certain dashing young man of large fortune lost, the other evening at a subscription house at the west end of town, eighty-thousand pounds, a sum greater than his whole property would pay. The winner is a person of high rank. The unfortunate gamester gave another proof of his enterprising genius by doubling the stakes; and by this hazardous maneuver he recovered his losses, and won a considerable sum off his antagonist.”
– The Sporting Magazine, November 1804
