Poor old Lord GRENVILLE lingers in a hopeless state ;
his dissolution may be hourly expected. As usual, however, when any thing is to.be got by a man's death, the scramblers for pelf have not had the decency to wait till the breath has left his body, but have already commenced wrangling about the succession to the Auditorship of the Exchequer, which Lord GiceNvILLE has held for so many years.
Until the clumsy and expensive system .on which the Exchequer department is conducted, shall have been abolished, it will be neces- sary to have an Auditor; though it by no.means follows that he should be paid a salary of 4,0001. per annum. Ministers, therefore, will pro- bably make the same arrangement with Lord Gaustvit.t.E's successor which Lord BeouenAm made with his brother,—that is, appoint him on the understanding that he is to have no claim for compensation when the place is done away with. It is pretended by some of the Tory;prints, that Lord DURHAM is to be appointed. But this we hold to be utterly ont of the question under any circumstances. Lord DURHAM never could accept an office of this description. Another story. is, that one of the King's sons has been pestering his father about it, and threatening Earl GREY with all sorts of "untoward " diselosures, unless the sinecure is conferred upon him. From what we have already seen of the grasping and hardly decent conduct of some of the males of that family, we are by no means pre- pared to pronounce this latter rumour void of truth.
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