There is a very satisfactory way of arranging your domestic affairs with reference to a northern expedition. Bring the Magister Rotulorum with you: he & you may lodge in the town, because I have not quarters to offer you, – & here will be the wing room for Miss Page. I will lay down your journey for you. Take the Mail to Leeds, in order to save time & trouble. And then proceed in chaises, seeing (which is easily done) Bolton Abbey, – Gordal Scar with Malham Cove, – Yordas & Wathercote Caves

on the way to Kendal. This you may do with ease & reach us on the third day (from Leeds) to dinner.

Your brother has been ill used, – & the use of establishing promotion by merit, can only be to afford pretext & cover for such usage. This is one instance of that rascally abuse of words by which the people of this country are fooled. I can very well understand his feelings & yours, & entirely enter into feel as you do at such injustice. But it does not appear to me (& I shall be surprized if upon this subject Elmsleys opinion should not coincide with mine) that you judge rightly in wishing to remove him from the Admiralty.

This would be the greatest gratification to those who have injured him. It would remove him out of their sight (& no man likes to look upon one whom he has injured) – & it would make a vacancy for them, which is giving them patronage, – & what is more, enable them to promote another favourite without injustice, & without delay.

Nor do I think it would be in Wynns power, however kindly he were disposed, to obtain for Henry a situation any way adequate to what he would leave. It is one thing to place a young man in a public office, who has life & hope before him, & can afford to expect promotion: & another to provide a fit & adequate station for a man of your brothers standing & deserts. Were he twenty years younger you might ask & obtain a cadetship or a writership for him,

(these are what W. has in his immediate disposal) – but as things are I do not see how he could be served (supposing the wish to exist in as great a degree as you & I could desire) in any other way, than by protecting him against farther wrong in his own office

W. I believe – & as you know, know in my own case,

would do much to serve those whom he loves, – any thing I believe which depended on himself. But I am <not> so sure that he would exert himself with others to serve them. Indeed the warmer a mans feelings are, the less does he like to have cold water thrown upon them. If he could, most certainly he would have obtained some preferment for Elmsley,

– but where did his influence lie? With his brother, whose good nature is of a kind that costs him nothing, – & with Lord G. of whom to ask any thing for a kind, or generous motive, would be like going to gather grapes from bram the bramble & figs from thistles.

I happen to have seen some of his official correspondence, & never was any thing more thoroughly unfeeling & unjust.

Wynns Grenville blood affects nothing but his manners, – it makes them cold towards strangers, repulsive & unpopular, but its influence extends no farther. Do not let any feeling of alienation arise on your part, & I am sure none will arise on his. And let you & I thank God that we are not men in power & Right-Honbles, as Cramboojer

used to call it, We have no interests to look to, – no dependents, no hangers on, to satisfy & as King, I forget who said in old times to make by every promotion one ingrate & ten to offend ten persons, & make one ingrate.