The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

APPENDIX G. 459
This, however, constitutes but a small portion of what, even with
the very limited means at my command, I have been able to save
positively or negatively in the Post Office generally.
In addition to the injury to health involved in the labour by which
these improvements have been achieved, I have had to submit to a
office in
sacrifice of income. Mine is, I believe, the only important
the whole department with no scale of increase of salary ; but for
the special limitation which my promised promotion would remove, I
should be now in the receipt of ^1,500 a year that is ^400 a year
less than Colonel Maberly had during his first five years of office,
and ^500 a year less than he has at present.
If Government is still of opinion that it cannot immediately fulfil
its promise, I beg that you will urge my claim at least so far as to
press that a period may now be fixed beyond which the complete
performance of the promise shall not be delayed ; and that, seeing
the impossibility of continuing the present state of things, arrange-
ments be at once made for the nearest approximation to such performance
that may be deemed practicable.
I remain,
My dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
ROWLAND HILL.
P.S. I have enclosed a copy of a letter with which you favoured
me on the 27th of November, 1846, and which bears strongly on
the case.
HENRY WARBURTON, Esq.