Note 51 — Chapter VI · JOHN WILKES AS A POPULAR REPRESENTATIVE.
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A less dignified view is taken of the lord mayor’s officious intervention, in the Political Register, 1768, where it states he had degraded, by his personal interference, “the dignity of his office to that of a petty constable;” and in a letter referring to the royal and ministerial favours conferred in return “for his active and spirited behaviour,” the new state official is, in his capacity of merchant-tailor, thus addressed:—
“And now, my lord, as we are brother tailors, how could you be so unkind as not to join eight of us to your right honourable self (nine tailors proverbially making one man), when you were dubbed the other day a Privy Councillor.”