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857-59] ARCHBISHOPRIC OF YORK OFFERED 271
It is of course for yourself alone to determine the relative dignity
of the post which I have proposed to you and that which you
now hold, and as to the means of doing good which those posts
not have made the
respectively afford ; but I should certainly
the balance was in favour of
proposal to you, if I had not thought
York. There is, however, another consideration which I should
wish earnestly to press upon you, and that is a regard for your
own health. I may have been misinformed, but I have been told
that your health has been very much affected by the labours of
your present post, and I am very sure that as long as you hold
that post, you will not slacken in the amount of labour which you
may think that a due performance of your duties may require.
But if your health should break down under the continued pres
sure to which it is exposed, a great part of those duties would
necessarily remain unperformed, or would be inadequately per
formed by others, and you would have your personal discomfort
embittered by the reflection that interests which you have at
heart were suffering. The duties of the Archbishopric of York,
though more commanding and extensive in their range and
nature, are nevertheless not so personally harassing, and you
would be able to perform them with less strain upon your health,
and with still greater advantage to the interests of the Church.-
My dear Lord, yours faithfully,
PALMERSTON."
" MY
The Bishop of London to Viscount Palmerston.
"CROMER, NORFOLK, %th October 1862.
DEAR LORD, Accept my best thanks for your letter of
the 6th. I assure you that if I had not, since receiving your first
letter, weighed your very considerate proposal most anxiously, and
viewed it in every aspect before arriving at my decision, I should
have been shaken by your renewed kindness. As it
is, however,
I feel that I have already given very full weight to what you so
considerately urge. I fully appreciated the kind motive which
offered me, in the Archbishopric of York, the opportunity of
removing to a post at once of greater dignity, and of less work.
The question of my health was very seriously considered, and I
arrived at the conclusion in which my usual medical adviser s
opinion confirms me that, humanly it speaking, is likely to be
as good in the See of London as in that of York. I do not pro-