24 Faraday, Correspondence of Lieut. -Col. Philips. 



best acquaintance I have. He is obliged to you for the Plants, & hopes 

 to treat you with some of the fruit at some future period, I hope next Summer. 

 The James's powder and Callicoe are not yet arrived. 



The Powder which your brother sent is most excellent. Pray to tell him 

 that I am greatly obliged to him for it. It has kept my larder constantly 

 furnished with Game. I have likewise enlarged my establishment by the 

 addition of 12 Lobster pots, which perform to a miracle. 



Messrs. Arthur Brew, Levvthwaite, and Catitanhasons 

 were connected with the Naval Service, and were serving 

 under Captain Cable. Mr. Whaley, an Irishman, was a 

 neighbouring landowner. Fleming seems to have been a 

 kind of mixture — half clerk, half boatswain. Mr. Carr 

 w^as, apparently, a schoolmaster at Peel, a " tall spare 

 figure, dressed in a rusty black coat, and a woollen night- 

 cap." Ryley, whose own favourite study at Peel was 

 " Zimmerman on Solitude," further says that Carr was 

 one of the most profound moralists and philosophers of 

 the day. Carr used to instruct all the children in the 

 neighbourhood for nothing, though his house is said to 

 have been little better than a pigsty. Mr. Carr's strong 

 denial of the Athanasian Creed struck the Manxmen 

 dumb with alarm, and till the day of his death they 

 expected to see him carried off bodily by the powers of 

 darkness. He was a vegetarian, at that time a great 

 rarity, and among other accomplishments had considerable 

 medical skill, wherewith he doctored the country people 

 for nothing. The identity of this worthy with Philips' 

 acquaintance is not clearly established, but for many 

 reasons it is very probable. The Bishop at this time was 

 Dr. Claudius Crigan, appointed in 1784. 



On January 7th, 1797, Cable writes an extremely 



pressing invitation, and continues: — 



We have been very busy here, for this Week past, in putting on our 

 fighting face. I am entrusted vsith the direction of the Batteries, and have 

 got the old Furt, and the two guns in it, quite serviceable. I have likewise 

 constructed a [ir tty liltle Battery of two iS pounders just beyond Whaley's 



