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The government wilted under the public outcry, and the press reported that "at last the conspiracy to hush up this scandal is breaking down." On Nov. 12, 1889, a warrant was issued for Lord Arthur's arrest, but by then he had left the country. Some experts say that he ended offering his services to the Sultan in Constantinople, where the laws were more lenient, but the present Duke of Beaufort's family has denied researchers access to the family records on their notorious forebear. As for No. 19 Cleveland Street, it was torn down in the 1920s to make way for an eminently respectable institution, which by sheer geographical happenstance is called the Middlesex Hospital.