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Rh heavy licene, and give amiale ecurity for their obervance of peace and good order. On uch occaions, they generally keep police guards at their, houes, to prevent diputes among the adventurers. Before they enter on this buines, every manager, or keeper of a gambling houe, is upplied with a large um of money, for the accommodation of the gameters, to whom he lends it out, on very advantageous conditions. The winner pays him in proportion to his gain, and the loer ecures him in the principal borrowed, with interet. Thus, by a rapid increae of growing profits, he accumulates, in a little time, vat riches. Notwith-