ADMIRALTY REFORMS.
TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
London. 4th July 1834. SI a—As you have noticed my communication "in a clerkly baud" in your last, I beg to give you a little more of the shop.
Mr. llAnttow retires from the Admiralty, but will continue to officiate till the arrival of his successor, or rather, the successor of his successor, who is abro at. The new First Lord deserves credit for this arrangement ; and we trust the heads a other &pat twins 1,611 follow his example. There is too much of the old Tory leaven iii all the ()dices. S;tich change may be :mewled with expense, from the retiring salaries to ‘vbielt those persons are entitled ; but as they act as a drag on the wheels of Rel■witi, cramp and counteract all reductious and saving, the country will in the rid-lin by it. TI-Ie late First Lord's reductions lyould have been more 2xtencive and com- plete, had he acted on this principle : and perhaps his leavi mg office may be at- tributable to his haying neglected It ; for there is an old Italian proverb, which, made into Eaglii:1, will lw—•• 11%ilk Ivith the hone, in the end of the year you will limp." 1 am, Sir, respectfully, your most obedient humble servant, A CLEP.K.
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