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300 BOSWELLIANA.
" I mentioned my having been in Tothill Fields Bridewell ;
how the keeper had let me in, &c. Wilkes, 'I don't wonder at
your getting in, but that you got out.' Bos. ' no, I have no
propensity to be a jail-bird ; 1 never had the honour you have
had * [he looking a little disconcerted, as the pill rather too
strong] — I mean being Lord Mayor of London; I mean the
golden chain. I never had the honour to have a chain of any
sort.' "
" ' 111 have some of the other soup too. Were there a hundred
soups, I should eat of them all,' Mrs. Aubrey (very pleasantly) :
* I am sorry ours comes so far short of your number.' "
" Old Huttont talked of men of phlegm and men of fancy.
Said H., ' Men of phlegm punish the beef, the solid parts of
dinner ; men of fancy, the dessert.' ' Sir,' said I, ' men of fancy
would have nothing to work upon were there not men of phlegm.
Men of phlegm perform the actions, compile the histories, dis-
cover the arts and sciences upon which poetry is founded.' "
"Dr. Burney:}: said he hoped I was now come to plant myself
in London, ' I'll bring the watering pan,' said he."
"I told Lord GaUoway,§ April, 1785, that I called Lord Daer
* Wilkes was in 1763 imprisoned in the Tower on the charge of
sedition. In 1774 he was elected Lord Mayor of London.
t Probably James Hutton, M.D., author of " The Plutonic Theory
of the Earth." He was born in 1726, and may have been styled
Old Hutton to distinguish him from Charles Hutton, the eminent
mathematician, who was born in 1737.
J Cliarles Burney, Mus.D., author of " The General History of
Music," and other works. He was an intimate friend of Dr. Johnson,
who confessedly prepared his " Tour to the Hebrides " after the model
of Dr, Biu-ney's " Continental Travels." Dr. Burney was born at
Shrewsbury, on the 7th April, 1726, and died at Chelsea, 12th April,
18U.
§ John, seventh Earl of Galloway, K.P., one of the lords of the
bedchamber to George III. In 1796 he was created a peer of Great
Britain by the title of Baron Stewart of Garhes. He died 13th
JSTovember, 1806.