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 sacrifice of income. Mine is, I believe, the only important office in 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, arrangements 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.
[APPENDIX H.]
[See [p. 215.]]
Letter to Postmaster-General (Lord Canning).