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marriage had the effect, usual iti such cases, of breaking 

 up the bachelor society. As soon as he was settled, how- 

 ever, he seems to have asked Taylor over to stay with 

 him, and accordingly on Sept. 24th, 1787, we find Taylor 

 writing to Philips as follows : — ■ 



I expected before this to have the pleasure of seeing you in Manchester, 

 bnt Walcetielfi l)eing from home Mr Okell could not conveniently he absent 

 also. We have however taken places in the Coach for the Boat on Friday 

 next & hope to pay you & Mrs Phillips our respects that evening ; we pro- 

 pose to stay with you till Monday, whea we shall depend on your returning 

 to Liverpool with us ; the Kxhiliition closes on Saturday Evening, but I have 

 managed so that none of the pictures shall be taken from their places till you 

 have seen them which you will do with more satisfaction when other persons 

 are not admitted ; your Sister will also be in Town from Allerbon on Tuesday 

 as she goes to the Concert that evening, so that on the whole I think we 

 have made a very good arrangement — -Moreover Charles Eyes is gone on an 

 excursion to Buxton Doncaster York etc in Company with Cizos, & proposes 

 to meet us at your house on Saturday evening on their way home, you will 

 perhaps wonder to find Charles with a companion of so opposite a disposition 

 as Monsieur Melancholy, but he was resolved on the jaunt & could get nobody 

 else to join him ; so they sallied fcjrth in a Buggy on Saturday noon, and 

 have taken the (Jatch Books with them, not wishing to be without an 

 expedient for raising supplies sh<iuld they happen to fall short on the Road, 

 so that it is not improliable the relation of their proceedings and adventures 

 may cause us some entertainment. 



The Cizos mentioned here seems to have been an 

 einigrt^ French gentleman, resident in Liverpool. He 

 appears to have maintained himself by means of his 

 musical abilities, and by teaching the French language. 

 There is only one letter from Cizos in the Leigh Philips 

 collection, enclosing a curious circular headed : — 



Proposals 



for delivering a course of 



Reading in the French 



Lajiguage 



Intermixed zvitli Singing 



It seems to have been an ingenious and refined 

 entertainment and met with some success in Liverpool. In 



