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that are to be stationed at the mouth of the Tlianies. It was ofiered through 

 Lord Curzon but I found myself so very unfit to leave home that I declin'd it, 

 & now I have given up all hopes of evermore applying; for employ. 



On June 3rd, Cable writes again. He is a little better, 

 he says, possibly " owing to the shift of my Doctor, 

 which he is very ready to believe." 



On June 26th, he writes that he is worse in health than 

 ever, and that he wishes to consult the surgeons at the 

 Manchester Infirmary, " and particularly Symmons." He 

 attributes his bad health to the effects of the typhus fever, 

 which he had shortly after the death of Mrs. Cable. 

 In the postscript Cable asks, " whether Philips' sister has 

 yet become Lady Hungerford." Miss Sarah Philips, it 

 may be mentioned, married Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 

 Bart., of Harewood, Herefordshire. She died in i860. 



Another letter is written on July i6th. It contains 

 nothing of interest, and in the last letter, dated September 

 8th, 1803. Cable announces that he is going to buy an 

 annuity for Sarah, " I think if I sink about five hundred 

 pounds it will leave her more independance." In this 

 letter, too, he tells of the desperate condition of health 

 he is in, and adds, " was it not for Sarah I should be 

 quite adrift. She is my surgeon, my nurse, and my all." 

 There is a touch, too, of the ruling spirit : " You know the 

 Manxmen are not too fond of work, nor of anything that 

 savours of enterprise. They are a set of lazy, idle, dogs 

 enough." In the last paragraph he gives a list of recent 

 deaths in the Island : Old Dr. Scott (the I'Janx regimental 

 doctor). Captain Jacobs and his daughter, and Mr. 

 Sherman (thus the hero and heroine of the Breach of 

 Promise case died within a few days of each other). 

 " Major Taubman, too, has lost his father and his mother, 

 and his only son is following fast. He is in the last stage 

 of consumption," 



