the first _stone_ bridge, also built
a chapel on the eastern central pier, in which the architect was
afterwards interred: his remains, as we first communicated to the
public, were found as aforesaid during the recent removal of the
old bridge; and "the lower jaw and three other bones of Peter of
Colechurch" were sold by auction a few days since.

[2] At the old bridge at Droitwich, the high road passed through the
midst of the chapel, the reading-desk and pulpit being on one
side, and the congregation on the other. Other public buildings
were not uncommon on bridges. In 1553 an alderman of Stamford
built the Town Hall upon the bridge there; and on an old bridge
at Bradford, Wills, there is a sort of dungeon, or prison raised
on one of the piers.

[3] Camden. Tindal's Notes on Rapin.

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THE BROTHER OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

(_To the Editor._)

As I was personally acquainted with Charles Goldsmith, the younger
brother of Oliver, the Poet, I am enabled to furnish a few particulars
in addition to those of _Philo_, contained in No. 573 of _The
Mirror_. Charles, on his coming to this country, from the West
Indies, had with him two daughters, and one son named Henry; all under
14 years of age. He purchased two houses in the Polygon, Somers Town, in
one of which he resided: here, the elder of his girls died; I attended
her funeral; she was buried in the churchyard of St. Pancras, near the
grave of Mary Wolstonecroft Godwin. Henry was my fellow pupil; but not
liking the profession of engraving, after a short trial, he returned to
the West Indies. At the peace of Amiens, Charles Goldsmith sold his
houses, and, with his wife and daughter, and a son born in England,
christened Oliver, he went to reside in France, where his daughter
married. In consequence of the orders of Buonaparte for detaining
British subjects, Charles again returned home by way of Holland, much
reduced in circumstances, and died, about 25 years since at humble
lodgings in Ossulston Street. Somers Town. After his death, his wife,
who was a native of the West Indies, and her son Oliver, returned
thither. Charles Goldsmith had in his possession a copy, from Sir Joshua
Reynolds's portrait of his brother; and I can vouch his resemblance to
the picture was most striking. Charles, like the poet, was a performer
on the German