26 Faraday, Correspondence of Lt.-Col. J. L. P Id lips. 



chant. On returning to England he obtained a lucrative 

 post in the Wine License Office, from which he was dis- 

 missed in consequence of his activity as a sup[)orter of 

 John Wilkes. His wife was a Miss Gascoyne, daughter 

 of a Worcestershire f^irmer. He published letters on the 

 contest with the North American Colonies with the 

 signature of " An Old English Merchant," which were 

 attributed to Franklin ; a poem, " Covent Garden : a 

 Satire"; a prose work, entitled "The Diary"; and 

 numerous selections from the English and Latin works of 

 Richard Crashaw, Canon of the Chapel of Loretto in 1650. 

 Miss Phillips appeared on the Liverpool stage again in 

 the summer of 1782, the year in which Taylor appears to 

 have made her acquaintance, she being then about nineteen. 

 Her marriage with Lieutenant Crouch took place at the 

 beginning of 1785. Peregrine Phillips was an old friend 

 of John Taylor, editor of the Sun newspaper, who was the 

 grandson of Chevalier Taylor, oculist to George H. and 

 Frederick the Great. He belonged to a branch of the 

 Norwich Taylors. It is in one of John Taylor's poems, 

 called " The Stage," that the lines occur — 



See Kelly next, and beauteous Crouch appear, 

 With mutual aim to grace the vocal sphere, 

 And hence their powers in happy union move, 

 To aid the scenes of harmony and love. 



Peregrine Phillips and his daughter, at the time of this 

 letter, lived in Gray's Inn Lane. 



In the succeeding letters we have references made to 

 the appearance of Dr. Currie and his bride at the Liverpool 

 Assemblies, the ladies in attendance being Miss Earle and 

 Miss Kent, and the groomsmen Mr. Thomas Earle and 

 Mr. John Lightbody, the latter officiating for Dr. Bell, 

 " who comes however (from Manchester) to the Assembly; 

 could you not contrive to come with him ? " The refer- 



