Brougham, in a letter to Macvey Napier (31st Jan., 1837), denies the truth of an assertion of Empson’s, that Lords Lansdowne and Holland tried to get preferment for Malthus, but failed; on the contrary, he had himself, he says, offered Malthus a living, but Malthus had declined it in favour of his son, Henry,[999] “who got it, and I believe now has it.” Henry, however, did not become vicar of Effingham (near Leatherhead in Surrey) till 1835, the year after his father’s death,—or of Donnington (near Chichester in Sussex) till 1837, the year when Brougham was writing. The second appointment may have been due to Empson’s reproach or Otter’s influence. Henry died in August 1882 at the age of seventy-six. Since, between the two parishes, he kept as many as four curates at a time, the combined salaries of the two, amounting to £672, seem a small income.[1000] His father himself told Gallois, the French publicist, in 1820, that all his works till then had not brought him above £1000. Gallois, repeating this to the poet Moore, slily remarked that in England poetry seemed to be better paid than useful learning.[1001] There is no reason for the belief that Malthus was made rich by the second essay,[1002] or indeed by anything else. He did not go the right way to be rich. He could no doubt have got Church preferment if he had pursued it like Paley. At the end of his days, even if he had desired it, he was too mild a partisan to be a _grata persona_ to the Whigs in office; he had acquiesced in the Reform of 1832, but without enthusiasm,[1003] having a livelier interest in social than in political changes. But the world after all used him kindly. Of worldly comfort, after 1805, he had enough; and he was fully satisfied, as he had reason to be, with his lot in the East India College. It gave him nearly thirty years of the leisure which Godwin had justly counted the true riches of life.