xxxvi MEMOIRS O F diffolution, on the fourth day of April, in the forty-fifth year of his 1774, age*. His * Mr. Hawes, whofe philanthropy is well known, appears to have acted with the greatest attention to the health of his friend, Dr. Goldsmith. The following letter will fhew the fenfe Dr. Goldsmith'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 thank for your kind behaviour to me fince my arrival here. I also am thoroughly convinced of your care, affiduity, and diligence, with refpect 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 refpectable, 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 Kelley, Meffrs John and Robert Day, of you and yours, I am, Sir, with thanks and re spects 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. 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 Weftminster-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, embellished 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 Poeta. Phyfici. Hiftorici. Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit Sive Lacrymæ. 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. Eblanæ Literis inftitutus Obiit Londini April iv. MDCCLXXIV. C 4 Eng This Monmuent is raised To the Memory of OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Poet, Natural Philofopher and Hiftorian, Who left no fpecies of writing untouched, or, Unadorned by His Pen, He was a powerful mafter Though at the fame time a gentle tyrant; In expreffion at once noble, His Memory will last As long as fociety retains affection; Friend |