' would not fail to possess. It were inpossible to make a second 'Settlement upon the present Plan; and if it is to be altered in the Favours of others, why not of us who have risqued and 'spent our all in the Adventure? How the TRUSTEES may 'be affected by it in all Respects, I shall not say; a Parliamen'tary Enquiry into their Management, I no ways question but they could entirely satisfy; but all good Men will regret, that so 'Honourable a Body should lose that Glory and Fame which the prosperous Success of the Colony would have crown'd them 'with. I have formerly asserted, that only the flourishing State of the Colony can support the MILITARY; and indeed without a Colony, it were easier to maintain a Garrison in Tangier on the Coast of Africa, than in the South of Georgia. Öne Regiment would little suffice to withstand the Enemy; and yet so small an Handful may be reduced to Discontent, Straits and Wants, notwithstanding all the Bounty of a King or Prudence of a General. As to the INDIANS; What could we expect 'less than being scorned and despised? That they should immediately fall in with the tempting Proffers of the French and Spaniards, and so Great Britain cut off from that valuable 'Branch of the Indians Trade? For how indeed could they expect Execution of Treaties or Protection from People who, without the Force of any Enemy, could not preserve their own 'Schemes of Government from falling to Pieces? How the Tragedy must affect YOUR EXCELLENCY would be Presumption in me to determine: I only know, that to see Those you honour with the Name of Children, in Want and Misery; that Settlement which should have perpetuated your Name to 'Posterity with the greatest Honour; become the Foil of all 'your great Undertakings; and the Expectations of all the World, 'from your promising Endeavours, setting in a Cloud and Ob'scurity; must affect Your Excellency in a Way suitable to your human and generous Disposition.

'Sir, We still love, honour and respect you, (whatever low selfish minded Persons, the Bane of Society, may surmise to 'the contrary) and will continue to do so, while we can have any Hopes of your pursuing Measures consistent with our Prosperity: But, Sir, Smiles cannot be expected amidst Disappoint'ments and Wants; and there is no altering the Course of Nature: 'Love and Gratitude are the Tribute of Favours and Protection, ' and Resentment the Consequence of Injuries received; and in 'Disappointments of this Nature much more reasonably than in those of Love, do the contrary Passions take Place in the same 'Degree. What then remains, but that you embrace those obvious Measures, that will retrieve our desperate Affairs;

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restore to us, in Mr. Oglethorpe, our Father and Protector, 'whose Honour and Affection was depended upon; secure to * yourself a Society that love and honours you, and who will always be ready to sacrifice both Life and Fortune to your Honour and Protection; and your Name with Blessings will be perpetuated. If in this I have, by a sincere and well-meant Freedom, given Offence, I heartily ask Pardon; none was intended: And I only request, that, while Truth keeps the Stage, the 'Author may be allowed to remain incog. behind the Scenes. I am, SIR, Your, &c.

The PLAIN-DEALER.

THIS Year there was promised a Bounty of Two Shillings Sterling on every Bushel of Corn, and One Shilling on every Bushel of Pease and Potatoes, raised in the County of Savannah: This induc'd some few to plant; but they were miserably deceived; for few or none of them ever received their full Bounty, and not many any Part thereof, (altho' if they had received it twice over, it could not have answer'd the End:) People being thus, by a Chain of Disappointments and Miseries, most of them rendered incapable to subsist, and toward the End of this Summer, beginning to dispair of having any favourable Answer to their Representation, or Hopes of Redress, left the Colony faster than ever; and when the Answer (or rather Denial) came over, they went in such Numbers that the whole Province of South-Carolina was overspread with them, and in and about the Town of Charlestown alone, this Autumn, above Fifty Georgians died in Misery and Want, most of whom were buried at the Publick Charge.

IN September a printed Paper, entitled, An Answer to the Representation, &c. was sent over, and arrived at Savannah; and of which this is an exact Copy.

The ANSWER of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, to the Representation from the Inhabitants of Savannah, the 9th of December, 1738, for altering the Tenure of the Lands, and introducing Negroes into Georgia.

To the Magistrates of the Town of Savannah, in the Province of Georgia.

THE Trustess for establishing the Colony of Georgia in

America, have received by the Hands of Mr. Benjamin Ball of London, Merchant, an attested Copy of a Representation, 'signed by You the Magistrates, and many of the Inhabitants of Savannah, on the 9th of December last, for altering the Tenure

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of the Lands, and introducing Negroes into the Province, 'transmitted from thence by Mr. Robert Williams.

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The Trustees are not surprized to find unwary People drawn ' in by crafty Men, to join in a Design of extorting by Clamour from the Trustees an. Alteration in the Fundamental Laws, framed for the Preservation of the People, from those very 'Designs.

But the Trustees cannot but express their Astonishment, that You the Magistrates, appointed by them to be Guardians of the 'People, by putting those Laws in Execution, should so far forget your Duty, as to put Yourselves at the Head of this · Attempt.

However they direct You to give the Complainants this Answer from the Trustees, That they should deem themselves very unfit for the Trust reposed in them by His Majesty on 'their Behalf, if they could be prevailed upon, by such an irrational Attempt, to give up a Constitution, framed with the greatest Caution for the Preservation of Liberty and Property; ' and of which the Laws against the Use of Slaves, and for the 'Entail of Lands, are the surest Foundations.

"And the Trustees are the more confirmed in their opinion of the 'Unreasonableness of this Demand, that they have received Petitions from the Darien, and other Parts of the Province, represen'ting the Inconvenience and Danger, which must arise to the good 'People of the Province from the Introduction of Negroes. And as the Trustees themselves are fully convinced, that besides the 'Hazard attending that Introduction, it would destroy all Industry among the white Inhabitants; and that by giving them a 'Power to alien their Lands, the Colony would soon be too like its Neighbours, void of white Inhabitants, filled with Blacks, ' and reduced to be the precarious Property of a Few, equally exposed to Domestick Treachery, and Foreign Invasion; and 'therefore the Trustees cannot be supposed to be in any Dispo'sition of granting this Request; and if they have not before 'this signified their Dislike of it, this Delay is to be imputed to 'no other Motives, but the Hopes they had conceived, that Time and Experience would bring the Complainants to a better Mind: And the Trustees readily join Issue with them in their Appeal to Posterity, who shall judge between them, who were their best Friends; Those, who endeavoured to preserve for 'them a Property in their Lands, by tying up the Hands of their unthrifty Progenitors; or They, who wanted a Power to mortgage or alien them: Who were the best Friends to the Colony, Those who with great Labour and Cost had endeavoured to 'form a Colony of His Majesty's Subjects, and persecuted Pro

testants from other Parts of Europe, had placed them on a fruitful Soil, and strove to secure them in their Possessions, by 'those Arts which naturally tend to keep the Colony full of ' useful and industrious People, capable both to cultivate and de'fend it; or Those, who, to gratify the greedy and ambitious Views of a few Negroe Merchants, would put it into their Power 'to become sole Owners of the Province, by introducing their 'baneful Commodity; which, it is well known by sad Experience, has brought our Neighbour Colonies to the Brink of Ruin, by 'driving out their white Inhabitants, who were their Glory and Strength, to make room for Black, who are now become the Terror of their unadvised Masters.

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Signed by Order of the Trustees,

this 20th Day of June, 1739.
Benj. Martyn, Secretary.

WE shall not in this Place detain the Reader, to shew the Absurdity and Insufficiency of the Reasons made use of in the above Paper, or how improperly it is called an Answer to the Representation; but refer them to the whole Tenor of this Narrative. With this Paper came over new Commissions for Magistrates, viz. Messrs. Thomas Christie, First, John Fallowfield, Second, and Thomas Jones, Third, Bailiffs, and Mr. William Williamson, Recorder: And, as if the Inhabitants had not been sufficiently punished before, by the arbitrary Government of Causton, the Two Offices of Store-keeper and Magistrate were again joined in One Person, which infallibly renders him (whoever he is) absolute in Savannah; and indeed, if the Miseries and Hardships of the People could have received any Addition, they must have done so from the Person appointed to execute those Offices, namely, Mr. Thomas Jones, Third Bailiff, as before mentioned, who surpass'd Mr. Causton in every Thing that was bad, without having any one of his good Qualifications; And that he might the more easily govern at Pleasure, Mr. Oglethorpe thought proper to supersede the Commissions of Messrs. Thomas Christie and William Williamson, and continued Mr. Henry Parker as First Magistrate, being sure he was a Person that would always be in the Interest of whoever was Store-keeper, and having no other Magistrate to cope with but Mr. Fallowfield, they were certain of over-ruling him, tho' his Sentiments were never so just; and when the General heard that some People justly complain'd, that the Trustees Commissions were of none Effect, he threatned an arm'd Force if they refused to comply.

William Stephens, Esq; Messrs. Thomas Christie and Thomas Jones, were likewise appointed to inspect into Causton's Accounts; but Christie was altogether rejected by the other Two; nor did

they ever do any Thing to the Purpose: Indeed Jones would sometimes hector and domineer over Causton, in as haughty a Manner as ever he had formerly done over the meanest Person in Savannah.

ALTHO' the Trustees say in their Answer to the Representation, That they should think themselves very unfit for the Trust reposed in them, should they by an irrational Attempt alter the Entail of Lands; yet not one Month after we had received the aforesaid Answer, over comes the following Paper, viz.

The RESOLUTIONS of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, in Common-Council assembled this 28th Day of August in the Year of our Lord 1739; relating to the Grants and Tenure of Lands within the said Colony.

WHEREAS the Common-Council of the said Trustees, assembled for that Purpose, in the Name of the Corpora'tion of the said Trustees, and under their Common Seal, have, in Pursuance of His Majesty's most gracious Letters Patent, and in Execution of the Trusts thereby reposed in them, granted and conveyed divers Portions of the Lands, Tenements and "Hereditaments in the said Letters Patent mentioned, to many of his Majesty's loving Subjects, natural born, and Denizens, ' and others willing to become His Subjects, and to live under Allegiance to His Majesty in the said Colony, to hold to them respectively, and to the Heirs Male of their respective Bodies, lawfully begotton, or to be begotton, under the several Rents, Reservations, Conditions and Provisoes therein contained; And whereas it hath been represented to the said Trustees, that many ' of the Persons to whom such Grants have been made, have no Issue Male of their respective Bodies, and that an Alteration in 'the Grants and Tenure of the said Lands, upon Failure of 'such Issue, and likewise a known certain Provision for the Widows of Tenants in Tail Male, would not only encourage all 'such Persons chearfully to go on with their several Improvements, but also be an Inducement and Means of inviting divers ' other Persons to resort to, and settle in the said Colony, and 'greatly tend to the Cultivation of the Lands, the Increase of 'the People, and the Defence, Strength and Security of the said Colony; which the said Trustees most earnestly desire to promote, as far as in them lies: It is therefore this Day unanimously resolved by the Common Council of the said Corporation, assembled for that Purpose, That the Grants of Lands or Tenements within the said Colony heretofore made and hereafter to be made by the said Trustees to any Person or Persons