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Mr. Scott's amiable manners and attachment to our Socrates, says Boswell in Edinburgh,
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We dined together with Mr. Scott, now Sir William Scott, his Majesty's Advocate-General, at his chambers in the Temple--nobody else there. The company being so small, Johnson was not in such high spirits as he had been the preceding day, and for a considerable time little was said. At last he burst forth--'Subordination is sadly broken down in this age. No man, now, has the same authority which his father had--except a gaoler. No master has it over his servants; it is diminished in our colleges; nay, in our grammar schools.'
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Sir William Scott informs me that on the death of the late Lord Lichfield, who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford, he said to Johnson, 'What a pity it is, sir, that you did not follow the profession of the law! You might have been Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and attained to the dignity of the peerage; and now that the title of Lichfield, your native city, is extinct, you might have had it.' Johnson upon this seemed much agitated, and in an angry tone exclaimed, 'Why will you vex me by suggesting this when it is too late?'
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Book of Lawyers.
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On April 10, 1813, says our author,
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Sir William Scott, says Mr. Surtees, then