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1758. to recover estates which in the manner of the booksellers
Mt. so. a Protestant had seized, voted " all barristers, solicitors,
" attorneys and proctors, who should be concerned for him,"
public enemies ! But, that serviceable use might be made
of the early transmission to Ireland of a set of English
copies of the Enquiry, by one who had zealous private
friends there, was Goldsmith's not unreasonable feeling;
and he would try this, when the time came. Meanwhile he
began the work ; and it was probably to some extent
advanced, when, with little savings from the school, and
renewed assurances of the foreign appointment, Doctor
Milner released him from duties which the necessity (during
the Doctor's illness) of flogging the boys as well as teaching
them, appears to have made more intolerable to the child-
loving usher. The reverend Mr. Mitford knew a lady whose
husband had been at this time under Goldsmith's cane; but
with no very serious consequence.

Escape from the school might not have been so easy, but
for the lessening chances of Doctor Milner's recovery having
made more permanent arrangements advisable. Some
doubt has been expressed indeed, whether the worthy
schoolmaster's illness had not already ended fatally; and
if the kindness I have recorded should not rather be
attributed to Ms son and successor in the school, Mr.
George Milner. But other circumstances clearly invalidate
this, and show that it must have been the elder Milner's. In
August 1758, however, Goldsmith again had bidden Mm
adieu ; and once more had secured a respectable town
address for his letters, and, among the Graingers and
Kippises and other tavern acquaintance, obtained the old
facilities for correspondence with his friends, at the Temple
Exchange coffee-house; Temple-bar.ad, on the attempt of a Catholicit is the strong resolve to