The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-15 00:00:00

THE LORD MAYOR ELECT.

Alderman Thomas Johnson, the Lord Mayer Elect,
was educated at Christ's'Hospital. It is sini,ular, that
,•„,
.
within the memory of the oldest citizen,' no person who
was breught up at that" school-was ever Lord Mayor of
London. There have been some irrstances•of Blue-
coat Boy's becorning Aldermen, but in every case upon
record something or ether interfered to prevent .the
candidate for civic honours from arriving-at the highest.
Alderman Lee, the father of the accomplished lady of
Alderman Wilson, the late Lord Mayor, -was the last
Alderman who was educated at Christ's Hospital. He
was elected to the Bench in .1803, but his health being
in a very precarious state, he resigned'in 1808, and
was succeeded by Alderman Plower,' whose death, in
1812, made room for Sir William•Heygate in Coleman-
street Ward. Mr.' Lee did not serve the office of
Sheriff, on account of the fatigues of the office. Of
late years, the Under-Sheriffs have taken the chief
labours off the shoulders of the Sheriffs, so that the
duties can be performed without much trouble, except
a breach of privilege- take place, when the Under-
Sheriffs very prudently get out of the difficulty as fast
as possible. There are several of the present Gover-
nors of Christ's Hospital who were brought up in the
school. Lord Seaton, who was a little while ago pre-
sented with the freedom of the City in the Court of
Common Council, was a Blue-coat Boy- for three years
and a half. ' He had been presented by the Deputy of
removedwhich thefrom
Lord Mayor
the
school
tEhrectWisarAdldoefrinPaonr.tsolikeen, of
was
before his education was half finished, in conseqcence of
his father's marriage to a lady of large fortune in the
City.

LANGUAGE. OF PHILOSOPHERS

Review for October, just
mben, which ..(though wo
(From the Edinburgh
published.) .
In the review of.the Wilberforce Correspondence,the
following anecdote is given : . .
.. We had," says the Reviewer, !` another anecdote
relating to our dear
have occasion to knovi it, to e authentic) has never,
we think, appeared before in prink. It ,
relates to an
unfortunate•rencontre,betwefen Ailaini,Anitt.
ii and Dr.
Johnson, during the viiiit othe latter to Glasgow in
1773. It is here given as if from Smith's own naria-
the of it to Mr. VVilberfor,ce :-- .. . •
. country
friends,' . said Adam
" Some of our Smith, " were
anxious that we shon
id meet, and a party was arranged
ID the course of,
. for the purpose. the evening I was
seen entering,anotber society,,an perhaps with a man-
ner a little confused. ~ Have.es you met Dr. Johnson ?'
my friends exclaimed'. , Y ,I have: ' And what
passed between your. ,
,Dlmmediatelyr on my being in-
troduce,r!be o.4dteso 4 41°77
that Hunle
to say. . ~. . , was, I nearly thP, befit mail you ever
be was so,' lan ?' ',Becausenswered. 6 Sir,' he
, And what,' .
replied, ' you lie,"imid they, 4 via's' yOur
the son
, sir, you are • of a bitch.'
answer,?'
It s -now. near AftY- pars since
,we ;heard ti_uus!
stor
c of the party into •
from the. mouth of one
the collision which Mr. Smith
came immediately afterti, ; and we can vouch
for the conformity °I t
that;
ehaptreceding report of it in
according
every. partien4r 4,-","Kist' ig to our recol-
lection, Dr. J913.09°8- ,_ address was evill'illOtle hide
and insulting than as there representedquestion
being,
How,
, came you to say that that detestable in-
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