diffolution, on the fourth day of April, 1774, in the forty-fifth year of his age*. His The * Mr. Hawes, whofe philanthropy is well known, appears to have acted with the greatest attention to the health of his friend, Dr. Goldsmith. following letter will fhew the fenfe Dr. Goldfmith's relation and friends entertained of Mr. Hawes's conduct. Mr. Hawes, London, June 10, 1774. IN a few hours I purpose leaving town, and now return you moft fincere thanks for your kind behaviour to me fince my arrival here. I alfo am thoroughly convinced of your care, affiduity, and diligence, with respect to my brother, Dr. Goldfmith. I am also convinced, that as his affairs were put into your hands by Sir Joshua Reynolds, he could have chofe no one who would have acted with more caution and difinterestedness to him than you have done, for which you have my fincere wishes for the welfare of His friends, who were very numerous and respectable, had determined to bury him in Westminster-abbey: his pall was to have been supported by Lord Shelburne, Lord Louth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Hon. Mr. Beauclerc, Mr. Edmund Burke, and Mr. Garrick; but from fome unaccountable circumftances this defign was dropped, and his remains were privately deposited in the Temple burial-ground, on Saturday the 9th of April; when Mr. Hugh Kelly, Meffrs John and Robert Day, of you and yours.-I am, Sir, with thanks and respects to your family, Your much obliged humble fervant, MAURICE GOLDSMITH. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mr. Burke, Mr. Bott, and others of Dr. Goldfmith's best and most efteemed friends, teftified their approbation of Mr. Hawes’s conduct. Mr. Palmer, Mr. Etherington, and Mr. Hawes, gentlemen, who had been his friends in life, attended his corpfe as mourners, and paid the last tribute to his memory. A fubfcription, however, has fince been raised by his friends, to defray the expence of a marble monument, which is now executed by Mr. Nollikens, an eminent ftatuary in London, and placed in Westminster-abbey, between Gay's monument and the Duke of Argyle's, in Poets Corner. It confifts of a large medallion, exhibiting a very good likeness of the Doctor, embellifhed with literary ornaments, underneath which is a tablet of white marble, with the following Latin infcription, written by his excellent friend Dr. Samuel Johnson, OLI OLIVARI GOLDSMITH Poetæ. Phyfici. Hiftorici. Qui nullum ferè fcribendi genus Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit Affectuum potens at lenis Dominator Ingenio fublimis-Vividus Verfatilis Oratione grandis nitidus Venustus Hoc Monumentum Memoriam coluit Sodalium Amor Amicorum Fides Lectorum Veneratio Natus Hibernia Forniæ Lonfordienfis In Loco cui Nomen Pallas Nov. xxix. MDCCXXXI. Obiit Londini April iv. MDCCLXXIV. Englished. This Monument is raised OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Poet, Natural Philofopher and Who left no fpecies of writing untouched, or, Unadorned by His pen, Whether to move laughter, He was a powerful master Over the affections, Though at the fame time a gentle tyrant ; Of a genius at once fublime, lively, and Equal to every fubject: In expreffion at once noble, Pure and delicate. His Memory will last As long as fociety retains affection; Friend |