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EXTRACTS OF LETTERS READ AT THE MEETING.

From Mr, now Sir Walter Scott, dated in April, 1818, observing that the neglect of the birth-place of Goldsmith is rather discreditable to the country which derives so much honour from his birth.

From a gentleman present at the meeting, whose exertions, on this occasion, received the unanimous thanks of those assembled at it, John Hogan of Auburn, Esq.

Circumstances led me, in the early part of my life, to the knowledge of part of Goldsmith's family, and to the acquaintance of his nephew, Mr William Hudson, whose beautiful elegy on the death of several members of his family, including the Poet, bears the strongest marks of hereditary genius, and the lost stanza of which I make no doubt of being able to recover. You may suppose I became interested in every thing bolonging to the Poet. When I settled on the spot, attempted to replace some of the almost forgotten identities that delighted me forty years since. I rebuilt his Three Jolly Pigeons,' restored his Twelve Good Rules, and Royal Game of Goose,' enclosed his Hawthorn Tree,' now almost cut away by the devotion of the literary pilgrims who resort to it; I also planted his favourite hill before Lissoy gate. that spot which presented to his eye the most agreeable horizon in nature; and, had not family affairs led me to reside in England for some years, I should have done a great deal more to gratify myself, and to point out the localities of the charming scene of the Deserted Village. "Some years past, a gentleman named Newell, a fellow of Cambridge, came over here on a literary tour, and sketched these scenes alluded to in the poem, with great truth and spirit. On his return to England, he published an edition of Goldsmith's Poems in thin quarto, embellished by those views, and enriched by copious notes on the Deserted Village, proving the scenery of Lissoy to have been uppermost in the poet's mind, while composing it. He meant to have followed this up, by soliciting subscriptions for some public testimonial to the memory of Goldsmith, on the spot of the Deserted Village, and even on that mount before Lissoy gate, which he mentioned with so much enthusiasm in one of his letters; but Mr Newell died before he could accomplish his wish." Several other letters were read to the meeting.

John Hogan, Esq. being called to the chair, it was resolved, that a committee and secretary should be appointed, for the purpose of managing the concerns of this undertaking: and it was also resolved, that Lord Viscount Newcomén and Company be requested to receive the subscriptions.

INDEX.

ABENSBERG (Count) famous story
of, ii. 7.

Abilities, moderate, most useful to
their possessor, iii. 177.
Accidental meetings, reflections on,
ii. 146.

Acis and Galatea, Ovid's, its pathos,
ii. 30.

Acting, rules of, for a strolling
player, ii. 201.

Actors, stiff deportment of English,
iv. 62.

Actresses, beauty a requisite in, iv.
64; cautions to, 86.
Addison, his deficiency in conversa-
tion, i. 58; character of his letter
from Italy, iv. 290.

Adultery rewarded rather than
punished, iii. 52.

Advice to a pupil, i. 321; who
qualified to give, iii. 177.
Eschylus improved the drama, ii.

240.

Age, why it lessens the enjoyments
and increases the desire of life,
iii. 213.

Alcander and Septimius, iv. 65.
Alehouse, village, described, i. 100.
Alehouses should be put under
restraints, iv. 122.
Alexander, his generous confidence,
ii. 227; could not pass for a
god with his countrymen, iii.
321.

| Altama, gloomy picture of, i. 103.
Altangi, Lien Chi, citizen of the

world, his motives for seeing
England, iii. 9; fate of his family,
21; becomes reconciled to the
English, 23; his high opinion of
the kindness of London ladies,
ib.; deceived, 25; account of his
travels, 27; visit to Westminster
Abbey, 34; interview with a
lady of fashion, 39; fate of his
son, 61; visits a lady of rank,
and how treated, 94; remarks on
St Paul's, and the religious wor-
ship performed there, Ï17; chal-
lenge to Dr Rock, 199; surprise
at the behaviour of a company
during a song, 208; goes to a
mercer's shop, and how served,
224; observations on theatres
and dramatic authors, 228; on
the English ladies, 233; his fas-
tidiousness as to books, 273;
reflections at midnight, 324; joy
at the arrival of his son, 339;
plan of his future life, 341.
Amanuensis, Goldsmith's attempt to
use one, i. 28.
Anaxagoras, his reflections on the
death of his sons, ii. 222.
Animals, advantage of their preying
on each other, ii. 177.
Answerers of books, their office,
iii. 36.

Antiquaries, ignorance of, iii. 256.
Ariosto, his notion about the moon,
i. 145.

Aristocratical government, what it
ends in, iii. 164.
Aristophanes, his attack upon So-
crates, ii. 242; aim of his writings,
243.

Aristotle, his opinion in regard to

poetry and music, ii. 233.
Art, blessings afforded by, i. 83.
Arts and sciences, whether more
hurtful or beneficial to mankind,
iii. 235; circunstances necessary
to their growth, iv. 6.
Asem, the man hater, ii. 174.
Asia, room for discovery there,
iii. 299.

Asiatics, their treatment of the fair
sex, iii. 278.
Auburn, village of, described, i. 95;
its desolation, 96; Goldsmith
hoped to spend his old age there,
97; opinions as to its locality,
iv. 316.

Augusta, her beneficence, i. 152.
Augustan age of England, an
account of, iv. 172.
Authorities in law, arguments
against, iii. 276.
Author's bedchamber described, i.

135.

Authors, how they view each other,
ii. 87; their quarrels, iii. 54;
how French and English speak of
each other, 55; description of a
club of, 82; poor hardly treated,
166; should not be made too
rich, iv. 30; contempt they have
to encounter, 33; useful in re-
pressing crime, 36.

Babylon, song denouncing her doom,

i. 162: boasted antiquity of, 163.
Bachelors, old, how they should be
treated, iii. 79; numerous in
England, and why, 212.
Bacon, his daring genius, iii. 298.
Bards, respect paid to them in
Ireland, ii. 283.

Barnard, Dr, Dean of Derry,
i, 117, note; his epitaph, 117;

lines to Goldsmith and Cumber..
land, 126.

Barret, faults of his translation of
Ovid's Epistles and specimens of
the work, ii. 307.
Bastard, a
poem, character of
Savage's, iv. 293.
Bawdry and pertness fashionable,
iii. 154.
Beattie, Dr, i. 58.

Beau, character and occupation of,
iii. 26; philosophical, 288.
Beauty, natural and moral connec-
ted, ii. 225; of person does not
secure affection, iii. 221; diffe-
rent ideas of, 321.

Beauty and grace, allegory of, iii.
221.

Bee, Magazine published weekly,
by Goldsmith, i. 24, iv. 57;
reflections on its small success,
100.

Bentivoglio, his hard fortune, iii.

242.

Berlin Academy, account of, iv. 18.
Bidderman, a Flemish tradition,
iv. 104.

Blaize, Mrs Mary, elegy on, i. 136.
Blemiae, their singular formation,
iii. 44.

Boarding-school, qualifications of
an usher in one, ii. 84.
Bolingbroke, Lord, Life of, by
Goldsmith, i. 36; editor's notice
of it, iv. 212.
Bolingbroke, Lord, his birth, iv.
214; education, ib. ; great natu-
ral endowments, 215; marriage,
216; made secretary of state,
218; quarrels with Lord Oxford,
220; removed from office, 222;
goes into banishment to avoid
impeachment, 224; his attainder,
226; joins in the intrigues of the
Jacobites, 229; dismissed by the
Pretender, and impeached for
betraying his party, 235; his
vindication, 238; is pardoned,
and returns home, 239; his
manner of living, 241; his Dis-
sertation on Parties, 244; retires
to France, ib.; his occupations
there, 246; return to England,

to enable Goldsmith to make the
tour of Asia, i. 31, note.
Byron a defender of Pope, i. 64.

and death, 248; character, 249; | Bute, Lord, applied to for a salary
will, 250; list of his works, 252;
Johnson's censure of, ib. note.
Books, advantages of, ii. 102; their
great number, and whether a
proof of learning, iii. 82; convey
erroneous views of human life,
194.

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Breeding, rules shewing Russian
ideas of, ii. 205.
Brianton, Robert, Esq. letter to,
describing Scotland and Scottish
manners, i. 299.
Bridges (Sir Egerton) his objections
to Goldsmith's poetry, i. 66.
Britain, her happy climate, i. 89,
iii. 200; noble qualities of her
inhabitants, i. 90; their indepen-
dence threatens by its excess to
extinguish the social affections,
and make avarice the governing
principle, 90; state of learning
in, iv. 30.

Brooke's System of Natural History,
preface to, by Goldsmith, i. 37,
iv. 261.
Bulkley, Mrs, epilogue spoken by,
and Miss Catley, i. 142.
Burke, Mr, his testimony to Gold-
smith's merit while at college,
i. 8; experiment upon Gold-
smith's vanity, 54; epitaph, 117.
Burke, Mr William, i. 117, note;
his epitaph, 117.

Burke, Richard, i. 117, note;
epitaph on, 117.

Cadence, what, ii. 278.
Calamity, great source of, iii. 129.
Camoens, in what state he died,
iii. 242.

Canada, the French and English
dispute its possession, iii. 46.
Capacity, natural difference in,
ii. 220; contradistinguished from
taste, 221.

Captivity, Oratorio of the, i. 156.
Caravagio, story of, iv. 133.
Carolan, last of the Irish bards,
ii, 284.

Cart race, description of, iii. 248.
Cartesian System, a state containing
many opulent men resembles the,
ii. 79.

Carvel, Hans, a poem of Prior's,
i. 36, note; its character, iv. 293.
Cassander died exasperated by mis-
fortune, iii. 243.

Catharina Alexowna, Empress of
Russia, her efforts to improve her
subjects, ii. 204; history, iii. 180.
Celibacy, its prevalence, iii. 252.
Ceremony, what purpose it serves,

iii. 112.

Certainty, land of, and guides to, an
allegory, iii. 106.

Cervantes died of want, iii. 342.
Charity of the English, striking
instance of, iii. 63.

Charles XII, anecdotes of, iv. 79.
Charteris, Colonel, satirical epitaph
on, iv. 58, note.
Cheerfulness not to be produced by
effort, ii. 114.

Chesterfield, Lord, his account of
Bolingbroke's illness, iv. 253.
China, short view of its history,
government, religion, manners,
and customs, iii. 7; mistaken
notion of the English regarding,
94; its history compared with
that of Europe, 120; symptoms
and cause of her decline, 184;
merciful spirit of her laws, 230.

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Chinese surprised that Europeans
think as accurately as themselves,
iii. 3; their idea of beauty, 12;
acquaintance with European
learning and arts, 97.
Chinese Letters, the Citizen of the
World, first appeared under that
title, i. 24

Choang and Hansi, a tale of con-
jugal affection, iii 49.
Choice spirits, club of, ii. 164.
Cibber, Theophilus, ludicrous me-
moir of, ii. 206.
Circumstances, merit owes its suc-
cess partly to, iv. 60.
Cities, large, the soil of great
virtues and great vices, iii. 287.
Citizen of the World, when written,
i. 24; its character, 63; advan-
tages of its plan, iii. 7; style, 4;
notice respecting, 7.
Citizen of the World, a philosopher
praised for calling himself so,
ii. 216.

Clairon, Mademoiselle, her graceful
acting described, iv. 84.
Clare, Lord, poetical epistle to,

i. 113.

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Cognoscento, in what the secret
of being one consists, ii. 93.
Collins, Mr, iv. 37, note; character
of his Selim, 292.

Colman, brings forward Gold-
smith's comedy of the Good
Natured Man, at Covent Garden,
i. 33; gives the comedy of She
Stoops to Conquer a trial, 40;
his sarcastic answer to Gold-
smith, 43; kindness acknow-
ledged, 170.

Colonies should be in proportion to
the mother country, iii. 47; im-
policy of transplanting the best
subjects thither, 48.
Comedy, posterior to tragedy, ii.
241; foundation of, ib.; licen-
tiousness of, ib.; its province,
289; the new, by whom intro-

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duced, ii. 243; the sentimental,

its merits examined, ii. 290.
Comic poets, notice of the principal
ancient ones, ii. 242.
Commerce, impolicy of England
cultivating that alone, iii. 67.
Commercial states in time become
aristocratic, ii. 79.

Conceits, examples of, ii. 262.
Confucius, his opinion as to the duty
of the learned, iii. 55.
Conjuror and tailor, story of, iii.
178.

Conscience soon silenced, ii. 52.
Contarine, Rev. Mr, assists in
Goldsmith's education, i. 5, 11;
enables him to study at Leyden,
14; his death, 19; Goldsmith's
letter to him describing his
voyage to Rotterdam, and the
manners of the Dutch, 302; his
legacy to Goldsmith, 317, note.
Controversy not the best employ-

ment for the clergy, ii. 185.
Convent, history of a, ii. 189.
Conversation, reason for shunning
no man's, ii. 114.
Court offices, Eastern, some that
might be introduced with advan-
tage in England, iii. 304.
Corneille did not shine in company,
i. 58.

Cradock, Joseph, i. 125, note.
Crispe, Mr, some account of his
office, ii. 90.
Crebillon, junior, iv. 26.
Critics, iii. 56; what sort of person
is fitted for being one, 149; first
corrupters of ancient literature,
iv. 7.
Criticising, manner of, in China,
superior to that in England,
iii. 165.

Criticisms, notice of Goldsmith's,
ii. 298.

Criticism, its increase portends
the decay of learning, iv. 38.
Croaker, what suggested the idea
of, i. 33.

Croaker, Mrs, wife of the preced-
ing, i. 179.

Croker, Mr, objects to Gold-

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