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a journey over 300 miles, to Cowetah, one of the principal 

 towns of the Creek Indians, where all the chiefs were to be 

 assembled. He was received by the Council with the warm- 

 est friendship ; and they renewed and confirmed all the trea- 

 ties which they had formerly made with him. He then re- 

 turned to Savannah, and was present at the funeral solemni- 

 ties of his tried and beloved friend, king Tomachichi, and then 

 proceeded to Frederica. It was about this time that an inva- 

 sion of Florida was determined upon, Oglethorpe went to 

 Charleston, and by his representations the Assembly voted 

 £120,000, and 400 men, to aid in the enterprise. The regi- 

 ment of Carolina arrived at Darien the 1st of May, and was 

 joined by Oglethorpe's favourite regiment, the Highlanders, all 

 destined against St. Augustine. Space is wanted to detail all 

 the incidents connected with this expedition. We have only 

 room to remark that it proved unsuccessful, owing to circum- 

 stances which Oglethorpe could not foresee, and to disap- 

 pointments which he least expected. In 1741 he resided at 

 Frederica. His homestead consisted of a cottage, a garden, and 

 an orchard for oranges, figs, and grapes. This cottage, and fifty 

 acres of land attached to it, were all the landed domain Gene- 

 ral Oglethorpe reserved to himself After the General went to 

 England, it became the property of the father of Thomas Spal- 

 ding, Esq. Scarcely a vestige now remains to tell where Ogle- 

 thorpe lived. In 1742, the Spaniards sent 3,000 men to drive 

 Oglethorpe from the frontiers. The General had with him only 

 700 men, and his situation was very critical ; but by measures 

 which reflected the highest honour upon his character, he en- 

 tirely defeated the expedition. In conformity to positive or- 

 ders from the English government, he left Georgia in 1743, to 

 answer charges preferred against him by Lieut. Col. Cook; 

 and soon after his arrival a court-martial was called, which, 

 after the most dispassionate deliberation, declared the chai'ges 

 brought against him to be false, malicious, and groundless, 

 and consequently, Cook was dismissed from the service. In 

 March, 1744, he was appointed one of the field officers, under 

 Field Marshal the Earl of Stair, to oppose the expected inva- 

 sion from France. On the 15th of September, 1744, he mar- 

 ried Elizabeth, the only daughter of Sir Nathan Wright, a lady 



