I cannot conceive it possible that the change in the
Government can in any manner affect Sir Charles
Morgan’s claim for compensation for the loss of his
office. His having bought it cannot be considered by the Treasury. But his
removal will afford the Government an opportunity of making a very economical
arrangement in the Medical Department of the
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I have not an accurate recollection of the state in which the correspondence with the Treasury on this subject was left to me. When the new Government is organised, I advise Sir Charles to write to Sir W. Gosset to urge dispatch in the settlement of his compensation. The Treasury is slow; is difficult to manage; it is like the hole of a till—it takes in money easily, but requires long fingers to draw it out again.
What do you mean by abusing us miserable servants out of place? When I was in the service of His Majesty, you never asked me for any of the good things from his table. Sir Charles was not considered a candidate for a seat in any of the Commissions, or I should willingly have submitted his claim to the favourable consideration of the Lord-Lieutenant, when a fair opportunity of serving him might have offered.
I never could make out what was meant by the
often-repeated charge of the Irish Government forgetting its friends. A
Mr. Glasscock, a Tory, was deprived of his office of
patentee of first fruits by the Church Act of 1832. Lord Grey, in the House of Lords, promised him the compensation
of the first vacant equivalent office. Can you tell me of any other Tory
promoted during my short reign? It is possible there might have been one or two
Tories in Whig guise who crept into favour, and imposed on the Government. But
I believe we were tolerably wary. I admit we did not go far enough in depriving
enemies in
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You are very partial, but not unjust to Mrs. Lyttleton, who always makes sunshine wherever she goes. We are here till Parliament meets, when we shall hope to renew our acquaintance with you in town. We are, meantime, all impatience to see your new work,
