54 Faraday, Corrcspojidencc of Licut.-Col. Philips. 



I don't recollect whether I ever mentioned that my old friend, <S: landlord 

 at Whalley Mr. Cotlam, spent a few days with me the last Summer. lie 

 came in the course of the very fine weather in August, & returned in time to 

 take the field the first of September. I le promised to send you some game 

 in the course of the Winter, l)Ut as you did not say anything about it, he 

 possibly may have forgot, although he is not a man used to have forgot what 

 he has promised. If you can spare a few days this Spring for fishing, I am 

 sure he will accompany you with pleasure to Whitewell, where. I dmibl not, 

 you wou'd meet with excellent sport. And it is not impossible but I might 

 be of the party in that case ; for you must know that I have been very 

 unwell for more than two months, and the Doctor advises me to take a trip 

 across the Channel when the weather is a little warmer. Which is as much 

 as to say I am ill but he does not know what is to do with me. If I do go 

 to England it will be about the latter end of April, and I shall spend a few 

 days with my friend Cottam while there, so you see we may make Whalley 

 the place of rendezvous. This is at present only in speculation. If I get 

 better I will try to do without the journey. 



Poor Livcsey too, has been extremely ill for near five weeks; he was 

 attacked with a violent inflamation of the lungs & has ccjnlinued in a 

 frightful condition. Appearances began lo alter yesterday for the better & 

 upon the whole he is much better to day, but he will require much attention 

 still. If you cou'd, with any convenience to yourself, contrive to let his 

 sister, Mrs. Clowes of Hunt's Bank, know how he is to-day, I make no 

 doubt but it would give her great pleasure for this is the very latest account 

 she can hear of him. 



The subsequent letters become far less interesting 

 than those already given. Cable, to judge by the change 

 in his handwriting, was evidently ageing rapidly, and his 

 letters are, besides, querulous and trifling. He was 

 undoubtedly extremely ill during the years 1802 — 1804, 

 and, as has already been said, died in the latter year. A 

 letter written on June 26th, 1802, tells of his return to 

 Douglas, and contains a reference to Dr. Krandrcth,* of 



• Dr. Joseph Brandreth was born at Ormskirk in 1746, and graduated 

 M.D., Edinburgh, in 1770. He succeeded to the practice of Dr. Mathew 

 Dobson, at Liverpool, and became eminently successful and popular. He 

 established the Liverpool Dispensary in 1778, and paid great attention to the 

 Infirmary. Like his neighbour. Dr. Currie, he was greatly interested in 

 fevers, and was the author of a work "On the Advantages arising from a 

 Topical Application of Cold Water and Vinegar in Typhus, and on the U.se 

 of Opium in Large Doses in Certain Cases." lie lived in School Lane, and 

 died at Liverpool on April loth, 1815. 



