26 Faraday, Coj'respojidence of Lictit.-Col. Philips. 



Pray do you know, or have you heard, of a Person of the name of 

 Limburgh ? My reason for asking is this : A Woman came to Farril's house 

 last Night who says her name is L. that she & her husband liv'd a little 

 while since in, or near, Manchester, & that they have been unfortunate. 

 She showed a letter to Farrill's Wife (for Farril himself has been in England 

 7 or 8 weeks, God knows what about) directing her to come to Mr. Farril 

 in the Isle of Man, & there wait the arrival of her Husband. This appears 

 so very mysterious that Mrs. F. does not know What to do, having never 

 heard her husband mention any person of the name. In short, she is at a 

 loss how to act, her husband not having written to her these three weeks. 

 If he shou'd chance to call upon you, pray endeavour to come at the bottom 

 of it. 



Mrs. Cable & Sarah unite with me in every friendly wish for yourself, Mrs. 

 Philips, Mrs. Potter (who we heartily wish may meet with pleasure in her 

 London excursion) and every other part' of your family to whom we are 

 known. I am, my dear Sir, ever yours 



SAM. CABLE. 



I have hardly room left to acquaint you with the Melancholy account of 

 the Death of our poor little Squirrel, which set out on a visit to its father about 

 six weeks since. Sarah did not quite loose her senses on this occasion, 

 although she was very near it. 



What do you think of Sir John Jervis's affairs ; Is he not a noble 

 fellow ? We were terribly alarmed last night by two of our Frigates, & a 

 Sloop, which were off the Calf and Castletown. We all put on our fierce 

 looks, but as the night was very cold it is not to be wonder'd at that some 

 of the terrible ones shou'd shake a little. As for my own part, I have been 

 contin'd this fortnight, I contented myself with giving orders from my Fire- 

 side like a great commander. Adieu. 



The last attack made by the French upon the Island 



had been in the year 1755. 



Banks's, May 12th, 1797. 

 After being detained eight days at Liverpool by contrary winds, and 

 two whole days and nights on my passage, I arrived here on Monday 

 morning, :nuch fatigued both in body & mind. ; In Mind I say : for I cou'd 

 not divest myself of the Idea of falling in with some of those Privateers which 

 infest this Channel, One of which had taken, only two days before we left 

 Liverpool, a Smack belonging to Peel on her Passage from Ireland to that 

 place : and as our tract lay nearly across the place where the Privateer was 

 left, there was, at least, a possibility of our sharing the same fate. For you 

 know very well that the Nelly and Betty falls somewhat short of a line of 

 Battle Ship in her appointments ; and she is not quite so fleet as Achilles in 

 her going. Added to which, I was off my Station without leave, and had I 

 been taken I do not know what the consequences might have been. These 

 Ideas, added to my bodily Infirmity, had a prodigious effect on my whole 

 frame, and I wou'd not again undergo what I suffered during those two day 



