Arrival in England.-Early Struggles in London.-Be- comes Usher in the School of Dr. Milner at Peckham. CHAPTER VII. Visit of his Brother to London.-Letter to Mr. Hodson.- Memoirs of a Protestant.-Grand Magazine.-Letters to Mr. Mills, to Mr. Bryanton, and to Mrs. Jane Lawder. CHAPTER VIII. Quarrel with Mr. Griffiths, and Letter to him.-Kenrick. -Letter to Rev. Henry Goldsmith.-Voltaire's Life.- CHAPTER IX. Residence in Green-Arbour Court.-The Bee.-Busy Body. Public Ledger.-Chinese Letters.-Lady's Magazine.→ Removes to Wine-Office Court.-Dr. Johnson.-Gar- CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XIII. DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. Goldsmith's Monument in Westminster Abbey. To face Titlepage of Vol. I. Fac Simile of Goldsmith's Handwriting. To face Titlepage of Vol. II. LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. CHAPTER I. THE GOLDSMITH FAMILY.-PALLAS.-BIRTH OF THE POET.LISSOY.-SCHOOLS AND EARLY INSTRUCTORS.-EDGWORTH'S TOWN. THE family of Goldsmith, Goldsmyth, or, as it was occasionally written, Gouldsmith, is of considerable standing in Ireland, and seems always to have held a respectable station in society. Its origin is English, supposed to be derived from that which was long settled at Crayford, in Kent: in Wood's Athena Oxonienses, we find some of its members not unknown to literature, and a similarity in the coats of arms appears to confirm this belief. clear detail of pedigree has been preserved by the Irish branch, willing, as it would seem, even in a country where antient family sometimes assumes the place of more solid distinctions, to rest their claim to antiquity chiefly on tradition. No One of the earliest settlers in Ireland whose VOL. 1. B name appears in public documents, was John Goldsmith, who held the office of searcher in the port of Galway, in 1541. His appointment to an office of greater importance, apparently by the request of his superiors, is thus intimated in a king's letter, dated 5th March, 34th of Henry VIII. (1542):— "We be pleased that John Goldsmyth shall have the roome of the Clerk of our Counsaill, according to your suits and deasires." Tradition reports that a female descendant of this gentleman married a Spaniard, named Juan Romeiro, who, travelling in Ireland as the companion of a nobleman of that nation, became enamoured of her, and marrying, settled in the country. His descendants, retaining their mother's name, fixed their abode in the province of Connaught and on its borders, particularly in the counties of Roscommon, Westmeath, and Longford, where something more than a century ago many traces of the Goldsmiths existed, which are now swept away. With the maternal name, they likewise preserved her religious faith; one or more of the members have been usually brought up to the church, whence it has been designated a clerical family; and one of these, the Rev. John Goldsmith, rector of Borrishoule, in the county of Mayo, narrowly escaped the effects of the savage animosity engendered against the thinly scattered Protestant population at the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1641. From his statement upon oath before the parliamentary commissioners, it appears that, in the |