"Fox played admirably both a whist and piquet; with such skill, indeed, that by the general admission of Brooke's Club, he might have made four thousand pounds a year, as they calculated, at those games, if he could have confined himself the them. But his misfortune arose from playing games of chance, particularly at Faro. After eating anddrinking plentifully, he sat down to the Faro table, and inevitably rose a loser. Once, indeed, and once only, he won about eight thousand pounds in the course of a single evening. Part of the money he paid away to his creditors, and the remainder he lost almost immediately...
Topham Beauclerc, who lived much in Fox's society. affirmed that no man could form an idea of the extremities to which he had been driven in order to raise money, after losing his last guinea at the faro table. He was reduced for successive days to such distress, as to borrow money from the waiters of Brooke's...
Great sums were then borrowed of Jews at exobitant premiums. Fox called his outward room (of his St. James's Street lodgings), where the Jews waited till he rose, the "Jerusalem Chamber" -Clubs and Club Life in London