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The Great Exhibition of 1851- Levee at the Mansion-House, on Thursday, 1850. '...the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor gave a grand entertainment to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and a large and distinguished party, in honour of the approaching Great Industrial Exhibition of all Nations, which is to take place in Hyde Park next year. The banquet was on a scale of unusual splendour, and was well worthy the ancient and proverbial hospitality of the City of London, and of the right hon. gentleman who at the present time so honourably and creditably discharges the duties of Chief Magistrate of the City'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.