1732, the first batch of emigrants embarked
on board the Anne, at Gravesend; and on
the 15th, Oglethorpe, "in the prime of life,
very handsome, tall, and manly, dignified, but
not austere—the beau ideal of an English
gentleman," with means—followed his poorer
clients, and set sail next day.  There were a
hundred and twenty emigrants, their governor
—our hero—Mr. Herbert, a clergyman of the
Church of England and the chaplain of the
expedition, and Mr. Amatis, a Piedmontese, to
teach the art of rearing silkworms and winding
silk; Georgia being supposed peculiarly fitted
for this industry, and Sir Thomas Lombe's patent
for silk-weaving handy at home for working up
the colonial produce.

The first fortunes of the colony were like all
first fortunes.  Some disappointment and some
confusion, wrangling, friendships, Indian raids
and pow-wows in alternation, Spanish difficulties,
prosperity on the one hand and adversity
on the other, to hold men's minds in an even
balance; but, on the whole, progress and
advancement, and the foundations laid for happiness
and future power.  Presently some Salzburg
Protestants joined the English emigrants;
but as they desired to be by themselves, they
went from Charlestown, where they first landed,
up the Savannah, and founded Ebenezer, their
place of rest in a new world.  On General
Oglethorpe's second visit to Georgia—for he
left after sixteen months' sojourn there—he
took with him as spiritual aids and missionaries
both John and Charles Wesley; the latter as his
private secretary in excess of his missionary
functions.  But after a time the pleasant
relations hitherto existing between himself and the
young men became somewhat chilled and roughened,
and we find Charles complaining of harsh-
ness and increasing coldness; while women,
always at the back of all disagreements between
men, mixed themselves up in the quarrel, and
made life very bitter to the private secretary.
Oglethorpe charged Charles with mutiny and
sedition, and with stirring up the people to desert
the colony.  They had a quarrel, too, about
formalism, the governor wishing for more love
and meekness and true religion, and less formal
prayer, and the missionary putting his trust in
sermons and public ordinances; and things got
to such a pass between them that, if what he
says in his journal is true, poor Charles was
much to be pitied, and his master not a little to
be condemned.  After bearing up against a
great deal of petty insolence from the servants
and low people about—his linen returned to
him unwashed, people shrinking from him if he
came in their way, and the like—his spirit at
last gave way; he took a fever and went to his
bed.  But "on the 6th of April, before he had
quite recovered," says Mr. Wright, "he jots
down what must not be withheld, hard though
it be to credit: 'To-day Mr. Oglethorpe gave
away my bedstead from under me, and refused
to spare one of the carpenters to mend me
another.'"

John came over to his afflicted brother to give
advice and consolation.  He was received by
Oglethorpe with "abundant kindness," and the
next day preached from the text: "Which of
you convinceth me of sin?"  His journal had
this note: "In every one of the six following
days, I had some fresh proofs of the absolute
necessity of following that advice of the apostle:
'Judge not before the time;' " and he makes no
remark concerning the differences between his
brother and the governor.  Charles having
peevishly come to a resolution "which honour
and indignation had formed," to starve himself
rather than ask for necessaries, John dissuaded
him from it, and so returned to Savannah,
leaving, it is to be hoped, things a little sweeter
and smoother between the belligerents.  Judging
from this distance of time, unwarped by passion
or prejudice on either side, one can easily
understand how it was that General Oglethorpe—
strong, capable, practical, energetic—and a
Wesley as missionary and secretary, could not
pull well together; for all that the elder man
had an "almost paternal affection" for the
younger, and was, moreover, a sincere Christian
and an ardent philanthropist.  But the
Wesleys were strange people; even among
themselves given to strife and contention about
the best method of showing forth Christian
graces and a godly conversation; so that it
was not much to be wondered at if they
quarrelled with the general, not in all things a man
of God, according to their way of distributing
class merit.  However, things got straight after
a time, and before they finally parted, the secretary
and his master were as good friends as
ever; which says something for both, seeing how
rare it is for misunderstandings to be done
away with when once they have been set up.

It would be impossible to give even a rapid
account of all that Oglethorpe did to make that
Georgian colony a success.  He made friends
with the Indians, and beat off the Spaniards;
founded new establishments, and laid down
roads; punished revolt; soothed dissatisfaction;
fortified his new-made towns and villages; fought
the Spanish fleet, and cut his way through it
gallantly; repressed the extra zeal and officiousness
of Whitefield, the missionary, whom also
he had taken to be a thorn in his side, and who,
according to the notion generally of missionaries,
had gone considerably beyond his powers, and
exceeded all legal authorisation; and then finally
returned home to be tried by court-martial, on
the complaints of one William Cooke—but to be
tried only to be honourably acquitted.  After
which he gradually faded out of sight as a
public character, married, retired, lived to a
good old age, and died in the July of 1785,
after the Declaration of Independence, which
made his little colony of Georgia an independent
State.

"Whose wicked eloquence was it that
helped to bring about this mighty revolution?"
adds Mrs. Hannah More, when detailing her
meeting with the general.  The whole extract,
though, is too characteristic to be omitted.
"I have got a new admirer," she writes to