Correspondence of Lient.-Col. J. L. Philips. 27 



domestic circle — they create a foolish but innocent amusement — I hope Mrs. 

 Phillips and her sweet children afford you a more rational one. To them please 

 to give our sincere good wishes and believe me Dear Sir 



Your obliged Friend and 



Obedient Serv"t 



S. W. BYLEY 



The following relates to the history of the corps of 

 Volunteers in which Colonel Philips held a commission, and 

 the affairs of which seem to have been prominent in the 

 events of his active life : — 



Sh- 

 in Answer to your Letter of the 27 th Instant received last Night, I have 

 the Honour to inform you that I have this day recomended to his Majesty 

 thro' the Duke of Portland, the Gentlemen named on your List for Promotion 

 & Appointment in the l'- Battalion Manchester & Salford Volunteer Infantry 

 occasioned principally by the resignation of Lt. Col. Bayley to wbom I have 

 written upon the subject by this Post. 



I have the Honour to be 

 Sir 

 Your Obt- humble Servt- 



DERBY. 

 Knowsley 

 June 29th. 1801. 



I find from an entry in the Gentleman's Magazine of 

 that year that in July, 1777, Capt. Hugonin, of the 4th or 

 Queen's Own Dragoons, was married to Miss Charlotte 

 Edgar, of Redhouse, in Suffolk, the writer of the following 

 letters ; and, from an entry recording the death of the 

 youngest daughter of Colonel Hugonin in June, 1799, that 

 they were then residing at Nursted House, near Peterfield, 

 Hants. The reference to Major General Hugonin, of Bar- 

 nard Castle, is apparently to Major General James Hugonin, 

 who died at that place in 1818, aged 88. The husband of 

 Colonel Philips's correspondent was Colonel Francis Hugonin, 

 who was gazetted Major General in 1803, the year after 

 that in which the second of the two letters was written. The 

 allusion to Colonel Philips's " beautiful garden " and his 



