OLIVER GOLDSMITH was the third son of the Rey. Charles, Goldsmith, a divine of great respectability, though hut in narrow circumstances. He was born at Elphin, in the county of Roscommon, in, the kingdom of Ireland, in the year 1729, and was instructed in the clas sicks, at the school of Mr. Hughes. On the 11th of june, 1744 he was admitted a sizer of Trinity college; Dublin, under the tuition of Dr. Radcliffe, where he was contemporary with Mr. Edmund Burke. At college he exhibited no specimens of that genius which distinguished him in his maturer years. According to his own whimsical account of himself « though he made no great figure in mathematicks, which was a study much in repute there, he could turn an ode of Horace into English better than any of them »>.“ On the 27th of february, 1749, O. S. (two years after the regular time) he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At this period of his life he turned his thoughts to the profession of physick; and after attending some courses of anatomy in Dublin, he proceeded to Edinburgh