28 Faraday, Correspondence of Lie7it.-Col. Philips. 



in Liverpool and will waft you over, as you very well know, in the best stile. 

 As for the French Privateer that took the Teel Smack, I find she was never 

 within a hundred miles of this place. It was off Voughall bay, which is only 

 about thirty miles to the northward of Cork. And in order to avoid the 

 impossibility of any inconvenience on that head you may easily procure a 

 Passport from Mr. INIassey, certifying that you are a Citizen of America. 

 But you may be assured that there has never been an enemy's vessel within 

 a hundred miles of this place during the War. 



Sporting Intelligence. 



I hooked a monster of a Red Cod the day before yesterday, & after a 

 a very severe battle my hook broke. N.B. it was one of the largest of those 

 you gave me at Manchester. Mem, Gymp is an excellent Snood. 



The Hague is in Oncan parish, a mile or two north of 

 Douglas, on the shore. Feltham mentions a Mr. James 

 Bancks living at Houstrake, which is close by. A Captain 

 Cook, who is mentioned also by the Duke of Rutland, 

 would seem to have been living at the Hague at this 

 time. 



Colonel Philips accepted this invitation, and took his 



family for a stay of some weeks at the Island, as we see 



by the next letter : — 



Balla-na-How, Augst. 19th, 1797. 

 My dear Sir, 



The Surrey arrived here last Monday, and brought me abundance of 

 things from you, none of them more valuable than your Letter which gave 

 me an account of your safe arrival at Liverpool. I rejoyce, most sincerely, my 

 dear friend, to find that your excursion has terminated so favourably ; 

 especially as I have, myself, experienced so many bad passages : and, I hope, 

 both yourself, Mrs. Philips, and the Children, have laid in a sufficient store 

 of health to carry you through the Winter. By this time, I suppose, you are 

 comfortably fix'd in your own habitation ; and I flatter myself that you 

 sometimes think of your friends in Mona. I am sure you have none in any 

 other part of the World who are more sincerely so, or who are more interested 

 in your welfare. Indeed, since you left us I feel as if I had lost a principal 

 Limb ; and a Loss of that sort, you know, is not easily supplied. In this 

 place, I need not say, there is no substitute. The Grapes you sent were 

 excellent. I wish I had anything to send Wakefield in return ; but, unluckily, 

 even the Herrings seeem to have forsaken us, there not having been even 

 one tolerable Night this Season ; and, at present, the best Fishers say there is 

 no Sign. If they (that is the Herrings) do not pay us another visit, you 

 know, we must, of course, be all ruin'd. The Congers, however, are on this 

 Coast in force. I took one, on the Long line, the day before yesterday, 

 that weighed thirty two pounds ; and upwards of a dozen others oi a smaller 



