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Mr. Faraday on the 



Public Welfare, and to the Anxiety we feel for the Honour and Interest of 

 these Towns at a Time when our best Energies are required. 

 We have the honor to be 



With much respect, 



Gentlemen, 

 Your most hble & obt Servts 



Manchester, 



25th September 

 1804. 

 Willm. Fox 

 B. A. Heywood 

 Edwd. Hobson 

 Saml- Jones 

 David Locker 

 Scholes Birch \J- Col. 



N.U.F.V. 

 Richd. Rushforth 

 Will m - Jones 

 Jos. Thornberry 

 Rob c - Riders 

 Edwd. Chesshyre 

 Jo. Ablett 

 Saml- Stocks 

 Richd. Potter 



Benj. Potter 

 Will Ollivant 

 John Kearsley 

 Richd. Biarlow 

 W. Robinson 

 J. Norbury 

 Wm. Cooper 

 Otho Hulme 

 Charles Fred Brandt 

 Saml- Argent Bardsley 

 Dauntesey Hulme 

 II. Gill 

 Saml- Peel 

 J. Gould 



Geo. Gould 

 Robert Markland 

 John Riding 

 Heny Barton. 

 John Barton 

 Roger Holland 

 Isaac Ablett 

 Tohn Tetson 

 Falkr. Phillips 

 J. Whittenbury 

 Richd. Ollivant 

 Thomas Darwell 

 William Heywood 

 Thos. Tipping 



The following letter again brings before us Colonel 

 Philips's sporting proclivities. The brother in question was 

 the Mr. Francis Philips, alluded to above, the fourth of the 

 sons of John Philips, of Bank Hall. He was born in 1771, 

 and died in 1850. He was the author of a pamphlet, 

 "Murder is Out," published in 1809; "Johnny Shuttle 

 and his Cottage ; a Tale interesting to the Inhabitants 

 of Manchester," also published in 1809; "Exposure of 

 the Calumnies against the Magistrates and Yeomanry," 

 published in 18 19 (the Peterloo year); and, later in life, 

 "A Treatise on Turnpike Roads," published in 1835. 

 In 1792 he married Beatrice, daughter of James Aspinall, 

 of Liverpool. It was into his arms that Perceval, the Prime 

 Minister, fell when shot by Bellingham in the lobby of the 

 House of Commons. His elder brothers being dead, he 

 succeeded to his father's Bank Hall estate, by will, on the 

 death of that veteran in 1824. He had previously resided 



