42 Faraday, Correspofidoicc of Lt.-Col. J. L. Philips. 



1800 he wrote Philips, with reference to a scheme to begin 

 a similar course in Manchester : — " I am urged to this 

 venturous scheme by the necessity of either removing to 

 America (this i}iter nos) or of vegetating here upon the 

 very precarious and circumbscribed emolument of a 

 profession which is hardly sufficient for a bare maintenance 

 since the prodigious influx of emigrants who derive their 

 subsistence all from the same means." The supporters of 

 the Bourbons in France, who had been driven out of their 

 country by the Revolution, sought an asylum in this 

 country in great numbers. Their lot was a sad one, as 

 sensitive and refined people, many of them belonging to 

 the highest ranks of society, compelled to work for a 

 pittance in order to exist. Even the almost universal 

 hospitality which these e^nigre's received in this country 

 could of course only temper their fortunes in a very slight 

 degree. 



The letters between the friends now begin to come 

 at much longer intervals, and the next letter is not 

 until April 30th, 1797, when Taylor, who does not seem 

 to have prospered as well as might be wished, writes to 

 Philips in the following terms : — 



Though it has happened that for some time past we have not occasion to 

 Iceep up a correspondence, I still flatter myself the Friendship which was so 

 early formed belween us is not extinguish'd although we have had so little 

 opportunity of intercourse. Under this persuasion I trust it will not be altogether 

 uninteresting to you to be inform'd that I have embraced an ofifer of entering 

 into business and I hope with a fair prospect of placing myself in that state of 

 independence which the employment I have held under the Corporation 

 (however agreeable in many respects) was not likely to lead to — I believe 

 you know that for a considerable time past I have lived with Mr Busch who 

 was formerly in partnership with Mr Wagner — during the last three years we 

 have kept house together, and have been upon such terms of unreserved 

 communication as to give me opportunity of becoming acquainted with the 

 nature of his business ; and having observed that his connections have con- 

 tinued to increase and that he was likely to have more to do than he could 

 properly attend to himself (altho* a man of great activity & attention) I 

 determined to make him a proposal of partnership on equal terms, which he 



