56 Faraday, Correspondence of Lieut.-Col. Philips. 



village in the south of England, where no manufactures were carried on, and 

 surely many such are to be found, where the soil and climate are infinitely 

 better than what we have to boast of. The inundation of vagab(jnds which 

 overspread the face of this Island is really astonishing, and adds greatly to 

 the price of every necessary of life, for as they generally bring a little ready 

 money with them, they spend it most wantonly while it lasts, and give 

 extravagant prices to whatever they buy : the consequence of this is that the 

 natives make the more sober sort of us pay as extravagantly for what we 

 have had as the strangers have paid. Upon the whole, I am heartily tired 

 of this Country, and I as heartily despise its inhabitants. You know I had 

 a wretched Garden, for which I paid an extravagant price, but as it was near 

 my house it was very convenient. A scoundrel Red Herring curer took this 

 Garden over my head the other day and nobody thinks he has acted other- 

 wise than they would have done themselves. My house was taken in the 

 same manner a few years ago, and my servants are tamper'd with, every 

 year, in order to induce them to leave me. In such a country, and among 

 such a rascally set of inhabitants, who would live unless he was absolutely 

 obliged to it? But I will trouble you with no more of my complaints. 



On January 8th in the followuig year he writes : — 



1 have been within an ace of breaking up my Camp here and removing 

 to Whalley ; it was but yesterday that we came to the resolution of remaining 

 where we are. You know that for the last year my health has been very 

 bad & I have long thought this Climate does not agree with me. It is 

 certainly too damp, ifc if I thought that I was to remove to a drier situation 

 I should be better. The House which I formerly lived in becoming vacant 

 ife having had an offer of it, together with as nuich land as will keep a 

 Horse & too Cows for Thirty guineas pr Ann. I was almost induced 

 to accept it, but reflecting that it was in the heart of a manufacturing country, 

 in the neighbourhood of Pendle Hill which in the winter generally furnishes 

 plenty of Cold, added to which the dread of fellows with Ink bottles in their 

 button holes, all these things consider'd frightened me, & made me resolve 

 rather to bear the ills that I know, than fly to others that I know not of. It 

 is true that if I had fix'd at Whalley I shou'd have been within thirty miles 

 of you, & I shou'd probably have seen you sometimes, which I can hardly 

 hope for while I remain here, and I shou'd likewise have been in a country 

 I like, & among people that have always been friendly to me. But, on 

 the other hand, the trouble fatigue & expense of removing, & the certainty 

 of increase of expense of Living, & the mortification I shou'd feel on 

 giving up my snug comfortable house to a Vagabond fclk^w, lor such is my 

 Landlord, altogether made us resolve to tarry here a little longer, A- if we 

 ever do remove, to go to the southward after a warmer i\L' more genial climate. 



Writing from Douglas on May 4th Cable says : — 



If I had been well enough to have left home, a thing has offer'd that 

 wou'd have suited me very well ; it was the offer of one of the Block Ships 



