_Lord Mayor of London not a Privy Councillor_ (Vol. iv. _passim_; Vol. ix.,
p. 137.).--L. HARTLY a little misstates Mr. Serjeant Merewether's evidence.
The learned serjeant only said that "he believed" the fact was so. But he
was undoubtedly mistaken, probably from confounding {159} the Privy Council
(at which the Lord Mayor _never_ appeared) with a meeting of other persons
(nobility, gentry, and others), who assemble on the same occasion in a
different room, and to which meeting (altogether distinct from the Privy
Council) the Lord Mayor is always summoned, as are the sheriffs, aldermen,
and a number of other notabilities, not privy councillors. This matter is
conclusively explained in Vol. iv., p.284.; but if more particular evidence
be required, it will be found in the _London Gazette_ of the 20th June,
1837, where the names of the privy councillors are given in one list to the
number of eighty-three, and in another list the names of the persons
attending the meeting to the number of above 150, amongst whom are the
local mayor, sheriffs, under-sheriffs, aldermen, common sergeants, city
solicitor, &c. As "N & Q." has reproduced the mistake, it is proper that it
should also reproduce the explanation.