n vacate the Treasurership of the Navy; and any
vacancy of one of the ordinary offices of Government might be
given to Mulgrave, which would open the Pay-Office. I know that
this arrangement would be considered by Pitt as the first object
in the disposal of anything that may fall, and I think,
therefore, that I am not very sanguine in believing that it is
not postponed to any very distant period. Lord Marchmont,
Stuart, McKenzie, and Barre, have all them been thought likely
to make openings since this business has been in agitation, and
there are a variety of other accidents that would answer the
same purpose. The enumerating all these chances bears the
appearance of more impatience on my part than I really feel, but
I do it to satisfy that which I know you will feel on finding
that the object is postponed after we thought it so nearly
accomplished. For my own part, I repeat what I told you in a
former letter, that the circumstances of my present situation,
in almost every point of view, and particularly the confidence
with which I am treated, leave me very little to look to, or to
hope for, from any change that can arise; and for this reason,
as long as I keep my rank and pretensions, and do not see others
advanced before me, I am by no means anxious for pressing
forward the proposed arrangement.

I have tired you long enough about myself, which I should not
have done if I was writing to one less interested in that
subject than I know you are. There are a few other things which
I am glad to take this opportunity of mentioning to you. I do
not know whether you will have heard anything of the strange
conduct of the Chancellor. When the Rolls were vacated by Sir
Thomas Sewell's death, the office lay between Kenyon and Eyre.
The Chancellor felt that he could not avoid offering it to
Kenyon, but was at the same time very desirous that he should
decline it, in order that Eyre might be appointed. Pitt was, on
the other hand, eager that he should take it, in order that
Arden might have the Chief-Justiceship of Chester, and he
succeeded in persuading Kenyon to accept. From that time, the
Chancellor conceived a pique against Arden; and although there
is no competition against him, either from Eyre, who is in a
better situation, or from any other person that the Chancellor
cares