Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe | Page 5

an alarming accident--Lands on the Florida side of St. John's--Proceeds towards St. Augustine--The Spanish do not venture out to attack him--Returns to the Islands--sees that the Forts are repaired--Takes passage to England to attend a Court Martial on an insidious charge against him by Lieutenant Cook--Is honorably acquitted, and Cook is dismissed from the service,

CHAPTER XVII.
Oglethorpe's residence in England--Marriage--Military appointments--A Major General under the Duke of Cumberland for the suppression of the rebellion in 1745--Arraigned at a Court Martial and acquitted--Domestic and social life, and character--Death,
Obituary notice of Mrs. ELIZABETH OGLETHORPE, with extracts from her Will,
Account of Carolina and Georgia by OGLETHORPE,
APPENDIX.
I. Family of Oglethorpe,
II. Discussion respecting the birth-day of the subject of these memorials,
III. Notices of the Earl of Peterborough, and of Dean Berkeley,
IV. Reference to the debates in Parliament in which Oglethorpe took a part,
V. Prison-visiting Committee,
VI. Release of insolvent debtors,
VII. Sir Thomas Lombe's mill for winding silk,
VIII. Case of Captain Porteous,
IX. Trustees for settling Georgia,
X. Oglethorpe's disinterestedness in the undertaking,
XI. Advertisement of Governor Johnson of South Carolina, and letter of the Governor and Council to Oglethorpe,
XII. Account of the Creeks,
XIII. Account of the Indians in Georgia by Oglethorpe,
XIV. Memoir of the Duke of Argyle,
XV. Saltzburgers,
XVI. Arrival of these persecuted German Protestants in Georgia,
XVII. Settlement of Moravians,
XVIII. Scout-boat and Channels,
XIX. Uchee Indians,
XX. A mutiny in the Camp, and attempt at assassination,
XXI. Memoir of Tomo-Chichi,
XXII. General Oglethorpe's manifesto,
XXIII. Fate of Colonel Palmer,
XXIV. Account of the siege of St. Augustine,
XXV. Spanish invasion,
XXVI. Order for a Thanksgiving,
XXVII. List of Spanish forces employed in the invasion of Georgia, and of Oglethorpe's to resist them,
XXVIII. History of the silk culture in Georgia, written by W.B. Stevens, M.D., of Savannah,
INDEX,

CHAPTER I.
Parentage of Oglethorpe--Birth--Education--Christian Name--Education--Military Profession and Promotion--In the Suite of the Earl of Peterborough--Service under Prince Eugene of Savoy--Elected Member of Parliament--Visits a Gentleman in Prison--Moves in the House of Commons for a redress of the rigors of Prison Discipline--Appointed on the Committee--Extracts from his Speeches in Parliament.
James Oglethorpe, founder of the Colony of Georgia in North America,--a distinguished philanthropist, general, and statesman,--was the son of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, of Godalming, in the County of Surrey, Great Britain, by Eleanor, his wife, daughter of Richard Wall, Esq. of Rogane, in Ireland.[1] There has been, hitherto, great uncertainty with respect to the year, the month, and the day of his nativity; I have, however, what I deem good authority for deciding it to have been the twenty-first day of December, one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight.[2]
[Footnote 1: For some account of the Family, see Appendix I.]
[Footnote 2: Appendix II.]
It is asserted in Thoresby's History of Leeds, page 255, that "he had two Christian names, James-Edward, supposed to have been bestowed upon him in compliment to the Pretender;" and he is so named on his sepulchral monument. But, as he always used but one; as he was enregistered on entering College at Oxford, simply James; and, as the double name is not inserted in any public act, commission, document, printed history, or mention of him in his life time, that I have ever met with, I have not thought proper to adopt it.
When sixteen years of age, on the 9th of July, 1704, he was admitted a member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[1] where his brother Lewis received his education. It seems, however, that, after the example of that brother, as also of his brother Theophilus, he early relinquished a literary, for a military profession; and aspired to make his way in the world, "tam Marte quam Minerva."
[Footnote 1: The record of his admittatur, in the University Register, is,--"1704, Jul. 9, term. S. Trin. Jacobus Oglethorpe, e C.C.C. 16. Theoph. f. Sti. Jacobi, Lond. Equ. Aur. filius natu minor." That is, "_In Trinity Term, July 9, 1704_, James Oglethorpe, aged 16, youngest son of Theophilus Oglethorpe, _of St. James's, London, was admitted into Corpus Christi College_."]
His first commission was that of Ensign; and it is dated in 1710; and he bore that rank in the army when peace was proclaimed in 1713[1]. In the same year he is known to have been in the suite of the Earl of Peterborough[2], ambassador from the Court of Great Britain to the King of Sicily and to the other Italian States; whither he was fellow traveller with the Rev. Dr. George Berkeley, his Lordship's Chaplain[3]. Highly honorable was such a mark of favor from his Lordship; and peculiarly pleasant and instructive, also, must have been such companionship with the amiable and excellent clergyman; and it afforded opportunity of concerting plans of usefulness, of beneficence, and of philanthropy, the object and tendency of which were apparent in the after life of each[4].
[Footnote 1: Biographical Memoir in the European Magazine, Vol. VIII. p. 13.]
[Footnote 2: NICHOLS, in the Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century, Vol. II. p. 19, says, "he was