As our narrative is brought near to the period when the General is about to return thither, it may be pertinent to introduce a short extract, in which the poet addresses the new settlers, eagerly expecting his arrival.

  “See once again, see on your shores descend
  Your generous leader, your unwearied friend! 
  No storm or chance his vessel thither drives,
  No! to secure and bless you, he arrives. 
  To Heaven the praise,—­and thanks to him repay,
  And let remotest times respect the day. 
  He comes, whose life, while absent from your view,
  Was one continued ministry for you;
  For you he laid out all his pains and art,
  Won every will, and softened every heart. 
  With what paternal joy shall he relate
  How views the mother Isle your little State;
  How aids the Senate, how the nation loves,
  How GEORGE protects, and CAROLINE approves!—­
  A thousand pleasures crowd into his breast,
  But one, one mighty thought absorbs the rest,
  ’And give me, Heaven, to see, (the Patriot cries),
  Another Britain in the desert rise!’”

CHAPTER VIII.

Trustees make a new selection of Settlers—­Their Proposals successful in Scotland—­Embarkation of Highlanders for Georgia—­Indian hieroglyphic letter sent to the Trustees—­Further emigration of Saltzburgers—­Great embarkation of Colonists, attended by Oglethorpe and the Missionaries—­Employment and religious exercises on board during the voyage—­Arrival—­Beacon on the Island of Tybee—­The people go on shore at Peeper’s Island—­Oglethorpe goes to Savannah with the Missionaries—­Sends provisions and refreshments to the Emigrants—­Moore’s account of the Public Garden—­Tomo Chichi welcomes his friend—­Saltzburgers make application for a removal from Ebenezer—­Oglethorpe sends pioneers to lay out a road to Darien.

“Some of the first settlers had proved as idle and useless members of society in America, as they had been in Great Britain;” and, as their external wants had been supplied from the common store, they felt no stimulus to industry or frugality.

The Trustees, finding that the conduct of these drones and loungers tended rather to impede than promote their benevolent intentions, began to look round for a better stock of settlers; a hardy race, with good habits; such as were accustomed to laborious occupation and agricultural pursuits.

That all persons who should be disposed to go to Georgia, might be fully apprized of the several conditions which they were to perform, and of what was expected, and, indeed, would be required of them, in return for the assistance and support that would be afforded them, a statement was made, and rules and regulations were drawn up, printed and circulated; in which the Trustees indicated the qualifications of such as offered themselves, with the expectation of being engaged.[1] They examined, at their office, such persons as applied