To The Editor Of The Time...
The Times, 1824-02-21T00:00:00

Sir-T am obliged to you for the readiness with whicli you IaVc Published my letter of Saturday. and the more than bjented favour with which you mention it, overlooking the faults of compositiDn ufmiroidably bonrequent upon the,hagte in which it was writlen, and unexpected occupatiots which, deprived tue ot anoppbttnitvb, crrecting it_ tie.leueftof a place in 6ur.coluifls .t beg to ieesi rrdethdrt a fact or tva which I tiAnk yod.cbualt o teedvette iI *tut?* the ob.9ervatj;s in your.paVer of-yete$daY. Thead ief'o * Vrice.-ChanicUor was neverintenmen 4 ventptosen.byjthoc 40 ZifflireA.frotn.-he proe.tors'.t a hn nbe TCa 0 bonstln piirb ship in the4ffice ofAChanceUlor. 1T4e prinip1a-oY tile.ra~tuie rasI simply to. appoint an a&sistannt to the Cb;+tellor; thedetai as to the amount of aITry aiW ptic, pere Veds tgedMtf IIebMZ as cirCumstances admifteit, after the rtite1 of tFMlateshiioitha Rolls ;r.nd the paymetIt.of the A.AlarE , a S w i1 re4t hit relief vwas sfFordedato.the.CbancelloM Jeficial to and1h e of despatch secured to the businesiw* k he:sui;brs.bevond *het ny 'exertionsof anr Chanscellr coii431it.eP i be teficu tFhem, was at- eordinglv eharged.in tw equj,p t yp9n thAChcatelloranOd \l1on the 3uitors.: The-whole time of this asttait*tutole ivetb e businessof the Court, and witetber it i'enmpl1oyed in one'descnptot of cases or another, cannot possibly bc 'ofany cone6rnitthr tohirn :or tothe Chancellor. 'Upsn these geourids X 0wotId, I thibk hl .guarded against the injurioils.teddency of your ntatemneOt . *thit the productive part of the sffice boa beenIretainiel.by the Chan6ellok, whilst the more esenti:part, beWng remmuneted 1b$' A salary, has been partitioned, and.a vast share.gveCa awayto anothei, theeld in-. curnbent retaining the wbole.salary.' - It will not be wandering from this subje-t2 if I refer to other opi. mions upon the mode of providing for tha vaiioua duties of the Chan- :cellorship, which, though Tnany of the ablest adirocate~s on'both sides. of the question, debated lipoh the WbIl creating the oVtce- 'Chancellorship, concurred in tbem, must rgst upn gr6ndsa, if they have any at all, which have never heen glearly explaitied. I mean to inclutle Sir Samuel RomillY amongit the holders of these oDonion's, which maintaited, in abswer to a suggestion that the Speakerxip should :be divided from the .Chancellorship, as the obvious remedy for increasing the time found necessary for the despatch of the Chancellor's business, that such a separation would tie unconstitutional. My first ohjecl in referring to these opinions is to show that anl opposition to tle ddismembern;ent of great offlices is not necessarily a roof of selish aind corrtipt viRws, and to iepel the imputation of such ' motves to the Chancellor for the part he has taken in that oppositiobi, But I ans very desirouis at the same time of drawing to thisgreat, though not novel question the attention of those qualified toadiseussi- It cannot be &ecidei by the mere assertion that the union of the two offices is constitu- tionaL Indeed, I doubt.thc correctness of this. agsertion, n4 wrlic. ther though the offices arc usually given to one person, tney are not con?used bv different nrdes,and mightnot, at the pleasure of dte (Crown, without any alteratio4 of the law, be given to diffrerent per- sons: n nprinciule, this would be more consiiitent w ith the conshtut tion in odher respects than the present arrangement, getmi1d ridof the anomnly ot' .saking the Judge ofthc Court of Chancery froni !'towe decisions au a8se-Al ties onlv to the House of Lorde, the President of that assembli. `In practice, it would suppl each o6ffie withl an officer able to give lis' whole time to the duties of it, whihb experi. ence proves cannot be peribrwed in part of lis time; and the ernolu_ ments of eaclh office, without sny inycrsse, would am^ply reward the lIbours of an individual of rank and experienee qualified properly to discharge the duties. All these advantages nlust give way to a constitutional objectioN if any can be established; and this point T wish ascertained. r mustagain defer my renuark on theBar, but I will take the first _ T h, - .,h,,dttn. the^m to Vou. ir,qU U5. Feb. 18, 1824. TO THE EDITOR OF TH2 TiMES.