Manchester Memoirs, Vol. xlv. (1901), No H 



VIII. Selections from the Correspondence of 

 Lieutenant-Colonel John Leigh Philips, of 

 Mayfield, Manchester. Part III. 



By VV. Barnard Faraday, LL.B., 



Ban-ister-at-Laiu. 



Read November Bjth, tgoo. Received i)i its present form [amtary i^th, rgor. 



The letters comprised in the present series, which are 

 those written by Captain Samuel Cable, R.N., to Lieut- 

 Colonel Leigh Philips, while they can scarcely be claimed 

 to possess the definite historic importance which attached 

 to those of Mr. Thos. Taylor, are nevertheless interesting 

 and , valuable, as showing, in the minutest detail, the 

 conditions of life prevailing in the Isle of Man, and the 

 relations between that island and the other parts of the 

 British realm at the end of the eighteenth century. 

 Apart from this, it may be claimed for the following 

 letters that, being the composition of a humorous and 

 well-informed man, they are in many cases intrinsically 

 amusing and graphic in their account of current events, 

 and that, being in large measure the life story of a 

 character whose personality and situation were alike 

 interesting, they form a " human document " of con- 

 siderable attractiveness and some pathos. 



The Isle of Man, at the period when these letters were 

 written, was a place very different from that with which 

 the holiday-makers of the present time are so familiar. 

 It was, over its greater extent, very thinl}' peopled, the 

 total population being only about thirty thousand, and 



July lolh, igoi. 



