Note 102 — Chapter XXII
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“As this arrangement involves an immediate addition of £500 a-year to my salary, I may, perhaps, be allowed to remind your Lordship that emolument, simply as such, is not, and, indeed, never has been, my object; but I have had bitter experience of the truth of the remarks lately made in Parliament by Lord Palmerston to the effect that every man’s salary is really taken as the index of his position and authority.
“As, however, the necessity for such stamp of my official rank will be greatly diminished whenever I become sole Secretary, I shall then readily submit to a modification in the scale of remuneration attached to the office, should your Lordship and the Treasury see fit to make any such change.”—Mr. Rowland Hill to Lord Canning. August 16th, 1853.—Ed.