TO WHIST PLAYERS. BY T. MATTHEWS, Esq. From the Fourth London Edition. PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW-YORK. 1813. Men Matthews TO THE READER. IT is a fact of general notoriety, that notwithstanding the numerous theories published, and almost universal practice, of a science, where profit and amusement are combined, a capital, whist player is scarcely ever, and 'even what may be termed a good one bat rarely, met with. There is, indeed, in almost every provincial town some 'Squire, Lawyer, or Parson, who, you are told, plays an excellent game of whist; but a judge always finds them ignorant of what may be termed their alphabet, and at best, possessed of a good memory, and |