6 Faraday, Correspondeitce of Licut.-Col. Philips. 



as a place of sanctuar}-. Of this description were several 

 of the most dashing inhabitants at this period, who Hved 

 in stile upon the means that ought in justice to have been 

 appropriated to their creditors." Indeed, the state of the 

 Island, socially and otherwise, was just what might have 

 been expected ; the long wars waged against England 

 ended in the retardation of the development of the more 

 remote parts of the United Kingdom, and the Manx 

 people, indolent in themselves, and deprived of that incen- 

 tive to improvement which we possessed in Lancashire, 

 seem to have drifted into a condition of apathetic poverty 

 and vulgar self-conceit. The advantage which Lancashire 

 possessed was, that her population, by nature energetic, 

 found an outlet for their talents in laying the foundations 

 of the vast cotton industr\', and, in truth, footing the war- 

 bill for the rest of England. A passage from Mr. Rolt 

 might be added to this ; " the Manxmen had a natural 

 respect for the people of Lancashire, in which county the 

 Earls of Derby had their usual residence, and from thence 

 were principally supplied with their principal officers of 

 government." 



Still, the foreign element was very undesirable, and, 

 in 1814, the Manx Legislature passed a law providing 

 that debtors of this class, who had fled to the Island for 

 Sanctuary, who took up their abode in the Island during 

 and after that year, might be prosecuted for the liabilities 

 they had incurred elsewhere. Of course this had a great 

 effect upon the influx, and for several years there was a 

 decline in the population. The end of the Napoleonic 

 wars, however, threw a large number of naval and military 

 officers out of employment, and many of these, finding the 

 Island a cheap and tolerably pleasant abode, took up their 

 residence there. 



Very little information respecting Captain Cable him- 



