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feelings, I think they are more calculated to raise a ferment in the Country 

 than to render any essential service to the community, under this Idea I have 

 refused to be present, and shall console myself with a glass of Champagne at 

 Lowndes's — a Gentleman whose name you have no doubt heard as one of our 

 great brokers — and allow me to add, as one of the best feeders in Liverpool. 

 Pray give my kindest respects to your brother & all at Maytield, ifc 

 believe me dear Sir 



\'ours most sincerely 



P. MEADOWS TAYLOR. 

 Liverpool Friday /a past one. \April 21 , iSog\ 



Died — on its Parade Ground at eight o'clock yesterday morning the Liverpool 

 Independent Rifle Corps — long the admiration of all beholders, its decease 

 was gradual, but its fate certain as in most consumptive cases — only 4 Heroes 

 and one Inspecting field Officer in at the death — In the language of our 

 litterary captain, it may truly be said that from a Coips it is now certainly 

 reduced to a Corpse. 



Colonel Leigh Philips was greatly intei'ested in madder 

 and its possible substitutes. From Dickson's Agricultural 

 Survey of Lancashire, we learn that he succeeded in 

 growing the plant on the waste moss land routid Man- 

 chester, and that the dye thus produced was successfully 

 applied in the manufacture of Turkey reds. On April 7, 

 1 801, Charles Taylor* writes to him from the Society of 

 Arts : " By the Coach this day I have forwarded }'ou a 

 small Bo.x containing some Madder Roots proper for 

 planting. Le Clef de Zoroaster and Urn accompanying it 

 and La Vie de Jerome Sharpe, also two copies of the 

 account of Mr. Wakefield's Steam House. I have also 

 sent you some foreign seeds in the state I received them 

 without any explanations, therefore I know not whether 

 they are valuable or not. I hope they will arrive and wish 

 you may approve of them. If I can get you some madder 

 seeds from Turkey I will not fail to do it." Mr. Wake- 

 field's " Steam House," it may be said here, was some 

 information he published for the Society of Arts relative 

 to the heating of glass-houses by means of steam. 



* Elected a member of the Manch. Lit. and Phil. Soc. in 17S1. One of 

 the "Committee ou Papers.'" 



