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THE GAME PLAYED IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY.

Mrs Law, executrix of George Law, late pro

prietor of the Smyrna Coffee House, St James's Street, in 1807, found, among her husband's papers, several notes and memoranda of money advanced to a Mr Nelthorpe, which she put in suit. The latter alleged that they were for gambling purposes, and called Mrs Law to say whether her husband did not keep a common gambling house; and his counsel contended that it was clear the notes were for gaming transactions, because they were for 100 guineas, 200 guineas, and so on — disdaining the vulgar enumeration of pounds. But the lord chancellor said that the game played in the Court of Chancery — as far as counsel was concerned — was for guineas.