36 Faraday, Correspondence of Lieiit.-Col. Philips. 



them from the Weather. Put twenty thousand on Shore there & I wou'd be 

 bound to keep them there with a small, a very small force, indeed. I expect 

 an Aye, or a No, by the next Packett. At present I need say no more than 

 that it is a Real Secrett. You shall know the result a few days after I do. 



In a former letter you mentioned a list of Wright's works, which, by the 

 bye, never arrived ; and a business of Colonel Drinkwater. If he is in your 

 neighbourhood do the polite thing for me. I have got a most shining frame for 

 the poor Soldier which cutts a great dash. 



The Lord Curzon mentioned in the letter was the first 

 Viscount, father of the well-known traveller. He was the 

 third son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, M.P. for Derby (said 

 to have been the only member of Parliament who dis- 

 proved Sir Robert Walpole's theory that " every man has 

 his price") and Mary, daughter of Sir Ralph Assheton, of 

 Middleton, Lancashire. His elder brother John was 

 created Lord Scarsdale in 1761, while Assheton Curzon, 

 who was born in 1729, was Baron in 1794, and Viscount 

 Curzon, in 1802. His son received the Howe peerage 

 through his mother. 



The Colonel Drinkwater alluded to is apparently 

 General Drinkwater (at the time of this letter Lieut.- 

 Colonel) the hero of Gibraltar, and author of the famous 

 " History of the Siege." He afterwards assumed the 

 name of Bethune. He was the eldest son of John 

 Drinkwater, M.D., of Sal ford, and Elizabeth Andrews, his 

 wife. It was he who erected the monument in Trinit)' 

 Church, Salford, " to the memory of his brother Thomas 

 Drinkwater, Major of His Majesty's 62nd Regiment of 

 Foot, who perished at sea, on his return from the West 

 Indies, the 23rd of April, 1797, aged 32 years." Dr. John 

 Drinkwater, himself, who was one of the founders of the 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, died in 

 March, 1797. 



On June 28th, Cable writes : — 



In my last I think I told you of my scheme for securing the French 

 Prisoners. In consequence of my representation an Enquirer was sent 



