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size. It is the only time I could get bait since you left the Island. The 

 Congers were, in general, Duplicates ; all the large ones having swallowed 

 one of a less size. So much for Fishing. 



I want to know a great number of things. Is your Sister Potter 

 married ! And. if she is, are they gone to Arley ? Is Bessy more kind to 

 G. L. ? Is Rattclifte got fix'd at Oxford ? And do you think that the Election 

 for a Secretary to the Infirmary will terminate according to your wishes ? I 

 must own I was pleas'd with the respect the Trustees paid you, in adjourning 

 the Board. It was a proper compliment, but it will subject you to some incon- 

 venience. But you know how to manage these matters as well as most 

 folks ; and, I trust, you will see your way through. 



Mrs. Cable and Sarah unite with me in every kind, every friendly wish 

 for the health & happiness of you all. That we may, at some future 

 period, be settled somewhere in your Neighbourhood is the sincere wish of 

 my heart. Adieu. Believe me most truly your friend 



S. CABLE. 



I forgot to say that the Money, Basketts etc, arrived safe and that I 

 drew upon you in favour of 20 Man for 50 Guineas the day after you left us. 

 Do let me hear from you soon. 



Colonel Leigh Philips' connection with the Manchester 

 Infirmary was fully explained in Part I. of these 

 " Selections." " Bessy," alluded to in the letter, was his 

 younger sister Elizabeth, who in 1798 married her cousin, 

 the Rev. George Leigh, A.M. 



There are a number of letters from Mr. John Radclifife^ 

 of Brasenose College, Oxford, preserved with Philips' 

 other correspondence. From these it appears he was on 

 very intimate terms with Cable, and thought highly of 

 him. From a letter from Radcliffe to Philips, dated July 

 26th, we gather that he had been spending the summer at 

 Douglas in 1797. The following letter, dated Aug. 24th, 

 1797, tells of some characteristics of the Manx popula- 

 tion : — 



Last Monday being the finest day we have had this Season, and Banks not 

 having above six Acres of Hay cut, thought he cou'd not do better than 

 go upon the Fish, he being, as he told me, as tired as a Dog with staying on 

 shore ; he accordingly went out in the Cat. His sons being, I suppose, as 

 tired as their father with doing nothing, and having nothing at all to do with 

 the Hay, very properly took to the Mountains, the natural situation of Savages, 

 and in the Evening return'd with four brace and a half of Moor Game, three 



