of submitting to you the following amendment,
which I move to be inserted after the two first paragraphs of the
address:

"And that this House does most humbly advise and supplicate his
Majesty to be pleased to cause the most speedy and effectual
measures to be taken for restoring peace in America; and that no
time may be lost in proposing an immediate opening of a treaty
for the final settlement of the tranquillity of these invaluable
provinces, by a removal of the unhappy causes of this ruinous
civil war, and by a just and adequate security against the
return of the like calamities in times to come. And this House
desire to offer the most dutiful assurances to his Majesty, that
they will, in due time, cheerfully co-operate with the
magnanimity and tender goodness of his Majesty for the
preservation of his people, by such explicit and most solemn
declarations, and provisions of fundamental and irrevocable
laws, as may be judged necessary for the ascertaining and fixing
forever the respective rights of Great Britain and her
colonies."

XXII. FROM "THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD."

THE FAMILY USE ART, WHICH IS OPPOSED WITH STILL GREATER.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.--1728-1774.

Whatever might have been Sophia's sensations, the rest of the family was
easily consoled for Mr. Burchell's absence by the company of our
landlord, whose visits now became more frequent and longer. Though he
had been disappointed in procuring my daughters the amusements of the
town, as he designed, he took every opportunity of supplying them with
those little recreations which our retirement would admit of. He usually
came in the morning, and while my son and I followed our occupations
abroad, he sat with the family at home, and amused them by describing
the town, with every part of which he was particularly acquainted. He
could repeat all the observations that were retailed in the atmosphere
of the play-houses, and had all the good things of the high wits by rote
long before they made their way into the jest-books. The intervals
between conversation were employed in teaching my daughters piquet, or
sometimes in setting my two little ones to box to make them _sharp_, as
he called it; but the hopes of having him for a son-in-law, in some
measure blinded us to all his imperfections. It must be owned that my
wife laid a thousand schemes to entrap him; or, to speak it more
tenderly, used e