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laft, by the Exprefs you fent, along the Continent, who 
is now got thus far back in his Return to you. The 
Contents of it gave me very grfeat Pleafure, as it inform- 
ed 4iie ot your Health, and of the great (or rather won- 
derful) Succefs God has been pleafed to give to his Ma- 
jefty’s Arms under your Conduct ; And I doubt not has 
eifedually convinced the Agreflbrs how unable they are 
to cope with refolute Britijh Troops ^ and I hope will be 
a fufficient Difcouragement to a fecond Attempt of that 
kind •, which, if the firft had fucceeded, might prove of 
dangerous Confequence to his Majefty’s Plantations on 
the Continent, efpecially the mofb fouthern ones. 
You have gathered unenvied Laurels, and well deferve 
to wear them. I take Leave to affure you no body can 
be better pleafed with your Succefs, than, 
SIR, 
Tour mofi humble, 
and obedient Servant, 
(figned) Lewis Morris. 
Extrabi of a Letter from the honourable William Gooch, 
Efq-, Governor of Virginia, to General James Ogle- 
thorpe. 
SIR, Odiober 12 th, 1742. 
I received the Letter of the 31ft of July your Excel- 
lency honoured me with, by the Hands of your trufty 
Courier, Mr. Watkins, and with it a very fenfible Satif- 
fadion : I rejoice to hear your Courage and Condud have 
had their deferved Succefs, in fo unequal a Trial. Your 
prudential Behaviour on the Occafion, cannot be too much 
applauded, nor Adions fo truly laudable too much ad- 
mired. The whole Continent is under lafting Obliga- 
tions to you, for your extraordinary Vigilance and Mag- 
nanimity, when, not thinking your Services to your King 
and Country compleated, nor your Valour fufficiently 
proved in the Defence of your infant Settlement, againft 
the repeated Attacks of cruel and inhuman Foes, more 
than could be expeded, confidering their Numbers ; with 
an uncommon Refolution you forced them in the Field to 
a precipitate Retreat, and effedually defeated the defpe- 
rate Defigns of an Enemy that had the Vanity to flatter 
themfelves with the Hopes of making an eafy Conquefl: 
of fbme, at leaflr, of the Britijh Provinces. 
As thefe great Adions are to be attributed to your For- 
titude, fo in my Judgment the unexpeded) and vigorous 
Oppofltion they met with, ending in fo fevere a Rebuff, 
has thrown them into fuch Diforder, that I am confident 
thofe Troops, were they all together in St. Augufiin, could 
not fo foon recover fufficient Courage to animate them to 
the like'Undertaking : The Confufion and Hurry in which 
they reimbarked, are fuch evident Tokens of their being 
terrified and difmayed, that with your ufual Watchfulnefs 
you may reft fecure from further Difturbance, Cfr. 
I am, 
SIR, 
Tour mofi obedient, 
and mofi humble Servant, 
(figned) William Gooch. 
15. We have now compleated the Hiftory of the En- 
glijh Colonies m America, in fuch a Manner, that the 
Reader cannot help difeerning their intrinfic Value and 
great Importance ; there is therefore no Necefiity of our 
adding any thing on this Subjed here, and therefore we 
will confine our Remarks entirely to the Colony of 
Georgia, and endeavour to fhew from what Views, upon 
what Elopes, and in how great a Degree the Public is 
interefted in the Maintenance and Support of this new 
Colony. In the firft Place, we have feen that the Truftees 
originally defigned it for ajBoundary or Frontier to cover 
the other Provinces upon the Continent ; that it was ex- 
tremely proper for this, the very Situation of it fliews; 
that it was extremely wanted we may gather from thd 
Hiftories of the other Provinces, in which we find vari- 
ous Inftances of the Ruin of their advanced Settlements ; 
from their leaving fo large a Country as Georgia uncul- 
tivated, a plain Sign of their Fear of becoming nearer , 
Neighbours to the Spaniards and from the Names of 
Places, fuch as Bloody Point, which commemorate the 
Maffacres that have been heretofore committed in thofe 
Parts •, but the ftrongeft and cleareft Proof 'of all, is the 
Memorial from the Affembly of Carolina, in which the 
Reader has feen this Matter ftated in the fulleft and 
faireft Light ^ from all which I infer, that the eftablifii- 
ing of fuch a Barrier, was a Point worthy of public At- 
tention •, and that the Benefits accruing from it to Caro- 
lina, and ail the Provinces to the Northward, mJght 
very well be confidered as a fufficient Recompence for 
any Expence that might attend the eftablifiiing of fuch 
a Frontier. That the Public were not amufed in the 
Hopes that were given them by the Truftees of Georgia 
in this refped; that the fending a Regiment thither, 
was not a needlefs or ufelefs Expence and that the 
Money employed in fortifying there, was not either 
wafted or thrown away, manifeftly appears by their re- 
pulfing the Spaniards in the late Invafion. If this was 
folely owing to the Bravery, Firmnefs, and Strength of 
the new Colony, then furely there is no room to find 
Fault with it ; and if the Province is as fome People 
would have it, thinly peopled, and very little capable of 
Defence, what Applaufe is due to the General ? Who, 
without the leaft Alfiftance from any other Place, could 
repel fuch a Force, and thereby fecure all our Colonies in 
North America: Take it either Way, we are fure of a 
Barrier while we have Georgia under his Diredtion. 
In the fecond Place, this Country was defigned as an 
Afylum for diftreffed People in our own Country, and 
for fuch induftrious foreign Proteftants as Ihould be wil- 
ling to go thither. If we confider the thing in this 
Light, the fupporting this Defign was no Favour in the 
Government ; for it is the Duty of every Government to 
provide for fuch of its poor Subjedts as are willing to 
work j and the leaft they can do, is to fend them to 
the Colonies, fince it muft be owing to their Mifmanage- 
ment that they have not Employment at home ; but it 
is not their Duty only, it is their Intereft alfo ; for Men 
adtive.and induftrious, who' can find nothing to do, and 
are at a Lofs to find any thing to eat, are not apt to re- 
main long in fuch a Condition : And furely it is better 
to fend fuch People abroad, though at a fmall Expence, 
than fee them, for want of fuch Care, fend themfelves 
to the Gallows. In tim.es of general and continued 
Peace, there will, however, be fuch Overflowings in 
moft Nations ; under arbitrary Princes from Mens Aver- 
fion to Slavery, under free Governments' from a fuper- 
abundance of People. In both Cafes that Government 
is to be commended, which laying hold of thefe Over- 
flowings, applies them to its own Ufe. To givf" fuch 
People Territories, is to acquire, though it feems a So- 
lecifm in Speech, the very Territories you give ; for 
Land without People is of no U fe j bur Land inhabited 
and cultivated by white People, let it lie where it will, 
is of great Value ; and that Value is much enhanced 
when that Land is cultivated, and thofe People are fet- 
tled precifely where you v/ant them rnoft. This is the 
Cafe of Georgia ; for the Carolina Memorial tell us, that 
white Men were not to be raifed there for Money ; which 
was the fame thing as if they had told the Government, 
that the beft Way they could employ their Money, was 
in fending of white People thither. But when we con- 
fider the Expence of fending white Men, and compare it : 
with the Purchafe of Negroes, the Cafe appears ftill more ; 
advantageous : Since the white Men come cheaper, and ; 
are of much greater Advart-age ; By fettling them you 
acquire iifeful Spbjedls, and couft(|UeritIy mcreafe your ' 
Force ; by purchafing Negroes, you only gain fo many ’ 
Slaves that increafe your Danger and Terror, by leffening ; 
your Force. Your own People and foreign Proteftants ; 
will be always yours, but Negroes are any body’s that ; 
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