Note 113 — Chapter XXIII
Reading edition
About five weeks earlier I find the following entry in Sir R. Hill’s Journal:—“May 30th, 1853.—Again pressed on the Postmaster-General the unfairness of transferring to the Post Office (as I fear is intended) the existing contracts for the Packet Service. . . . I fear the injustice will be committed nevertheless, Sir James Graham, who generally contrives to have his own way, having made up his mind to the thing with a view, I suspect, to give an appearance of retrenchment in the Admiralty expenditure.”—Ed.