6. WATTIER'S CLUB.
This great Macao gaming house was of short
duration. Mr Raikes says of it: — `The club did not endure
for twelve years altogether; the pace was too quick to last; it
died a natural death in 1819, from the paralyzed state of its
members. The house was then taken by a set of blacklegs, who
instituted a common bank of gambling. To form an idea of the
ruin produced by this short-lived establishment among men whom I
have so intimately known, a cursory glance to the past suggests
the following melancholy list, which only forms a part of its
deplorable results: none of the dead reached the average age of
man.' Among the members were Beau Brummell and the madman Bligh.
