The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

APPENDIX B
[ See p. 105.]
Further letter to Postmaster-General (Lord Clanricarde),
Hampstead, August I3th, 1849.
MY DEAR LORD, Knowing how fully your lordship's time and
that of other ministers is occupied during the session of Parliament,
I have hitherto refrained from again requesting attention to my letter
of January 3rd, but now that a period of comparative leisure has
arrived, I feel that I ought no longer to postpone the irksome task.
I have enclosed a copy of the letter for the purpose of inviting a
reperusal of it, and I think I may confidently appeal to your Lordship's
knowledge of the state of the department for supporting me
when I say that the experience of the seven months which have
elapsed since that letter was written has strengthened the grounds,
both public and private, on which my application was based.
The various interviews with which I have been honoured by your
lordship on nice and difficult points, arising in the course of business,
would enable me to refer to many cases in which the public service
has suffered from the continuance of the existing arrangements, while,
though this is doubtless a matter of inferior importance, such arrangements
are inconsistent both with my personal comfort and my
pecuniary interests.
On these, however, I will not dwell, nor even with respect to the
public service will I intrude on your attention as to more than one
point out of the many which occupy my thoughts. I refer to the
necessity for a general revision of salaries in the metropolitan offices,
which after being so long delayed now presses with great urgency.
It is due in justice to the clerks that their claims, whether well or ill
founded, should be set at rest by adjudication ; but; notwithstanding
your Lordship's earnest desire that the task should be accomplished,
I have, I believe, satisfied you that in my present position it would