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200 SUTHERLAND ESTATE MANAGEMENT: CORRESPONDENCE
have written to Butt and Walker to lessen the expenditure until our
present difficulties are surmounted. At the same time it will be for
Your Lordships determination to say (if a permanent reduction of
expenditure is required) whether it should be all on the English
estates or partly on both English and Scotch. If the purchases and
election expenses are excluded such a measure would be required
on neither, but I thought it my duty to lay the whole before your
Lordship.
I hope Sellar will be soon able to furnish me with a Copy of the
Sutherland Rental for 1814, as he promised, with an account of the
outgoings. I will add that to a similar statement of Your Lordships
English Estates, and the whole income arising from these funds for
the ensuing year having been laid before Your Lordship, the expenses
to be incurred can then be also settled, beyond which we are not to
exceed, and in this view perhaps the rents of the Sutherland Estate
will be equal to the demands on it, the Coal excepted. When I have
the honor of meeting Your Lordship at Trentham I am in hopes, that
I shall be able to lay before Your Lordship a plan of Accounts to be
made out monthly from the three different departments of the Trent¬
ham and Newcastle, the Lilleshall and Wolverhampton, and the
Sutherland estates, by which Your Lordship will not only see the
actul aexpenditureof the last but the probable expenditure of the next
month, a measure which I trust will be satisfactory to your Lordship
and prevent the Accumulation of any balance such as has taken place
at Dunrobin just now. I mentioned this to Mr Young and 1 can man¬
age it easily with his Clerk and it will tend as much to his comfort
as to Your Lordships advantage. It is a thing however which I should
have had the greatest difficulty in advising, if it had the appearance
of any interference with Mr Young, but the very gentlemanlike and
Confidential way in which he has behaved towards me, has I am sure
so fully made us known to each other as to remove any feeling of that
sort from his mind and to convince him that my only motive and
wish in the plan is, having constantly before our Eyes the objects of
expenditure and the funds applicable to them, a regular and sufficient
plan may be adopted to enable Your Lordship, without difficulty to
yourself and without injustice to any branch of your family, to carry
on the best improvements, which are in the North as well as in the
South. At present I am not aware that I can add any thing further, but