10 Faraday, Correspondence of Lient.-Col. Philips. 



other favourite, Herring. He talks of making anotlier Sweep at Christmas, 

 which, I hope, will prove as productive as the last. He, X- his Rib, spent 

 the evening with us the day we lost you. Indeed I know no other company 

 that I cou'd liave put up with on that day ; but his knowledge of, and his 

 respect for, you render'd him (]uite agreeable. He was, as usual, quite 

 pleasant & quite unaffected. 



I have not yet been able to procure such a Poney as I cou'd wish. I 

 have seen several, but none of them answer'd : they have either been too 

 large, or not handsome. In the course of the Winter I dure say I shall 

 get one. 



The Weather has been so very bad since the Shrimp Net arrived that 

 we have not been able to try it ; but you may be sure I shall take the earliest 

 opportunity of doing it. Owing to the same cause (bad Weather) I have not 

 been able to get any Rock Cod : the first I propose, if an opportunity offers, 

 I shall send to Wakefield, whom I seem to look upon as an old friend 

 although I never saw him in my life. 



Mrs. Cable and Sarah unite with me in most friendly and sincere wishes 

 for the health and happiness of yourself, Mrs Philips, and every branch of 

 your family. Accept my best thanks for your kind presents, & believe me to 

 be, with great esteem, your sincere A' faithful frien-1 



SAM CABLE 



The " Riley " mentioned in this letter is S. W. Ryley,* 

 the Actor. In his Itinerant Ryley describes at some 

 length his adventures in the Isle of Man, and throws some 

 light upon the doings of some of the people mentioned in 

 these letters. His mother was a schoolfellow of Lady 

 Jane Stanley, who was for many years his patroness, and 

 who seems to have been distantly related to his wife, with 

 whom, by the way, he eloped when she was a schoolgirl 

 of sixteen, and married at Gretna Green. Ryley was well 

 acquainted with Leigh Philips, and from him received 

 many introductions to well-known people in the Isle of 

 Man, and the appearance of whom on the quay to 

 welcome him on his landing at Douglas in September, 

 1795, he records with gratitude. Ryley had a " lecture 

 or entertainment " entitled, " New Brooms, Narrative, 

 History, Satire, and Sentiment, occasionally interspersed 

 with songs." It is mentioned in the letter, and the 



* Vide Itinerant, \'ol. HI. 



