A checker'd dome of lofty pride, Silent, solemn, and sublime: A pillar'd labyrinth, in whose trackless gloom, In front lay the scene we have described at the commencement of our narrative: the soft light glimmered over the distant island, and the bosom of the water, unrippled by a breeze, reflected like a mirror the bright blue arch of heaven. "How beautiful is this day," said Musgrove," and how quiet we live, compared with a life in London, or even in the colony of Carolina-we hear not even the barking of a dog, and but for this mocking-bird's variable song, might suppose ourselves alone on the earth." return to the bustle of the white man's home?" situation; but I was contrasting in my mind the quietude But little more than a century ago, the interminable forests of Georgia had never echoed to the woodman's axe; the fertile savannahs lay buried in the umbrageous foliage of cypress and palmettos, where the magnolia and jasmine "wasted their fragrance on the desert air." Then the aborigines of the soil contended in sanguinary conflict, or pursued the buffalo and wild deer, where the husbandman now tills his field, and widespread culture yields her ample stores. Where the commercial emporium of the State rears her stately mansions, spreads her white canvass to the gale, and the busy hum of enterprize sends forth its thousand tones, there stood in 1733 a solitary hut of the first Anglo-Saxon who had made the soil of Georgia his "I have heard my mother," said Mary, "tell the tradition home. He came from the adjoining province of Carolina, of her people being driven from beyond the lofty mountains, to trade with the Indian for his peltries, and becoming en-where a great river flows south, by a powerful nation called amoured with a maiden of the Creek nation, whose father the Natchees-and when they came to this land, they found was a white man, he married her, obtained permission to many small tribes who could not stand before them-but reside among them, and raised his humble cottage on the their bones lie buried in these graves apon which you see bold bluff of Yamacrau. This cliff rises more than forty such large trees growing." feet above the river, in a crescent form, on the southern branch of the noble Savannah, which is here divided into two streams, by Hutchison's island, like an emerald set in the silvery waters. Its low flat grounds, and lofty bay trees, "Yes," replied his wife, "they say, it was there he met formed but a part of the picturesque, scenery from Yama- the first white man; and when dying, requested to be bucrau bluff: it commanded a view of the country and river ried on the spot. It was more than a hundred summers in its meandering course for many miles, with its white ago, the story goes, that flying canoes were seen on the pebbled beach, and the woody island of Tybee at its mouth, coast, which entered this river, armed with thunder and the delta of many ages. Looking westward, the river came lightning, and the pale men landed on this bluff, all clothed winding amongst the trees, laving their boughs in its flow-in metal. They told our chiefs they had destroyed our ing waters, and studded with little islands. From the southern bank, rose the curling smoke of the Indian village that gave name to the bluff; where the bright palmetto-thatched buts glistened through the dark foliage of the evergreen pine. This village was separated from Yamacrau bluff by a small creek, which long perpetuated the name of "Musgrove," the English trader, whose wife is the subject of our story; but the Ogechee canal now occupies its place. "I thought," said Musgrove; "that the great mound near this was the grave of your great Chief of the Lower Creek nation?" great enemy in Florida, for which our people loved them." "This," said Musgrove, "is the tradition of Sir Walter Raleigh's having taken the Spanish fort at St. Augustine, in 1585; and it is believed he landed at several places on the coast, and may have stood on Yamacrau." 64 "From that time," resumed Mary, "the English have been dear to our nation; and when I first saw your pale face, my heart was prepared to love you." But I hope, Mary, you will not love all the pale faces you may see; for if the report I heard when last in Charleston be true, that a colony is forming in England, to settle south of the Savannah, you may soon see many of my coun trymen." Joni Musgrove had built his cabin on this elevated site, and found in the endearments of his black-eyed Mary, a appiness not often realized in the circles of wealth and fashion. She had acquired a knowledge of her husband's Language, with that facility peculiar to her sex, and was enabled to render him important services in bargaining with "If any could be more kind than you, my dear John, you her nation for furs. They were seated together at the door might fear a rival; but do you see how that vine clings to of their humble dwelling, early in February 1733, in the af- the tree that supports it? I am that vine, and you are my ternoon of one of those days not uncommon in this south-support. I shall be glad, however, to welcome your people ern latitude, when Winter anticipates the Spring by a genial to our bluff, because you can then sell your peltries withwarmth and balmy softness in the atmosphere, that brought out going to Charleston, or having to leave me so long." forth the first carol of the birds, and the first buds of the season. In the rear of the cottage, But, I fear," said he, "my people will embroil us with your nation, and the Spaniards at St. Augustine will reap the harvest of our indiscretion." "I have always fears of the Spaniards," replied Mary; "they appear like an inferior race to the English, whose white and red complexion, made me in childhood think of them, as a mixture of celestial and earthly natures." "Your mother thought so before you, Mary; and I wish you may never have occasion to change your opinion." At this moment three boats were seen turning the point of the Tybee; and then a ship with sails all set, and the English flag floating from the mast. "What are these?" said Musgrove, "are they scout boats, or traders from New-England? No, they must be the would have given lustre to a homelier face. Her costume pioneers of the expected colony." was a pleasing combination of savage and civilized taste,a pink cambric vest laced up in front, and a white cotton petticoat, was all she wore of European make, and over these flowed a mantle of feathers of the richest plumage, so beautifully matted together, as to represent bouquets of flowers. Her moccasins were of buckskin, worked by her own hands, and laced up her ancles with gay ribbons like ancient sandals; around her neck and arms were ornaments formed of shells and beads, and her hair bound only with a scarlet fillet, flowed unconfined upon her shoulders; a rich belt of wampum girded her waist, and large pearls of her native waters hung pendant from her ears. 66 His conjecture was right; for ere the sun had set, the boats reached a point, at which they began to land; and Musgrove went down to meet them, whilst Mary ran up to the Indian village to inform the great Chief Tomachichi of the new comers. Runners went out immediately to apprise the neighboring tribes; and next morning more than fifty head men of the Creek nation stood before the door of Musgrove's cottage. The ship Ann drew up within thirty feet of the shore, and pointed her ordnance against the bold bluff: the mounted rangers under Capt. McPherson filed off on the beach below, and James Edward Oglethorpe, accompanied by Col. William Bull, of South Carolina, Mr. A treaty was concluded, by which the Indians conveyed Jonathan Bryan and the Rev. Mr. Herbert, ascended to the all right and title to the lands between the Savannah and bluff by a winding path. As the English approached, the Alatamaha rivers, extending west to the head of tide water, Indians presented them with the calumet, (or pipe of and including all the islands on the coast, from Tybee to peace) and directed our heroine to welcome the strangers St. Simons, reserving to themselves the islands of Ossato Yamacrau. Although she spoke the language well, her baw, Sapaloe and St. Catherines, for the purpose of bantembarrassment only permitted her to say, Our Chief bid ing and fishing. Also a tract of land above Yamacran, ¡yyou welcome"-to which Gen. Oglethorpe replied, "I ing between Pipemaker's bluff and Pallychuckola creek, thank you, good woman, and augur success to my enter- which they reserved for an encampment when they came to prise, in finding such an interpreter of the kind feelings I visit their English friends. The Indians then returned to their cherish for your people. Tell your chief, I am sent by the distant homes well pleased with the bright baubles they cargreat King of the English, to propose an alliance with him, ried to their squaws and papuches; and the emigrants proto open a trade with his people, and live with them, if they ceeded to lay out a town on Yamacrau bluff, which they callwill give us land to cultivate." He then distributed pre-ed Savannah. Tomachichi retired to his village, a few miles sents to the chiefs and head men; when Tomachichi, the up the river, and the cottage of Musgrove, so quiet but yesvenerable Mico, (King) stepping forward, robed in the man- terday, became the scene of noisy turmoil. Around it the tall tle of the buffalo and the plumage of the eagle; his locks forest was felled, forts were erected, and habitations reared. whitened with age, but his figure unbent by the scythe of Poor Mary saw the sylvan scenes of her childhood rapidly Time, said; "We have heard of the English; our fathers changing their aspect, and sighed when the ivy-twined oak, told us of a great warrior who came over the wide waters, the emblem of herself and husband, lay prostrate at the feet of more than a hundred summers ago, and talked with our the new comers. From that moment she desired to remove; chiefs on this bluff; and our king requested to be buried on but the penetrating eye of Oglethorpe saw the importance of the spot where the conference was held: there he sleeps retaining her as an interpreter, and discovered her influence under that mound, but his talk is still in our hearts, and we over the natives-not so much by her affinity, as by that su will tell it to our children, as long as the sun shall shine or periority of mind acquired by association with civilized the waters run in the river." Gen. Oglethorpe then unroll- man. He determined to secure her friendship by bestowing ing a parchment he held in his hand, replied; "This is the on her many valuable presents, and promised to procure for record of that great warrior, which tells us that he came to her an annuity of £100, which he subsequently did, sod this river in two ships, and landed at a cliff ten miles above which she ever afterwards received. This was a handsome its mouth; that the country was fine and the people good; income, at the value of money in those days, and which not and we have come to see if he told us true?" only enabled her husband to carry on a more lucrative trade in peltries, but supplied Mary with the means of indulging her fondness for finery-a feminine weakness which so elevated culture or strength of intellect can control, but which frequently brings the courtly dame in unenviable comparison with the savage. "We are glad you have come," said the great chief; "we have much land, and you have many things that we want come then and build your wigwams with us-we believe the Great Spirit above has moved your hearts to come among us, to instruct us in what is straight; I, therefore, in the name of the Upper and Lower Creek nation, and of these head men of the Coweta and Cuseta towns, do give the people of your nation all such lands as shall be agreed upon, between their beloved men and the head men of our nation, to be theirs forever. Now you have made us presents, and here is a little present I give you, a buffalo's skin adorned on the inside with the head and feathers of an eagle, which I desire you to accept, because the eagle is an emblem of speed, and the buffalo of strength; the English are swift as the bird and strong as the beast, since like the former, they flew over vast seas, to the uttermost parts of the earth; and like the latter, they are so strong, that nothing can withstand them the feathers of the eagle are soft, and signify love; the buffalo's skin is warm, and signifies protection; therefore, I hope the English will love and protect our little families." During the summer, the colonists had made considerable progress in their improvements. In laying out their town, they left a broad strand between the first row of houses and the river bluff-the streets were wide, and great squares were left at proper distances for markets and military parade. Already a public garden was prepared as a nursery to supply them with mulberry trees, vines and olives; for it was the chief object of the proprietors to make silk and wine the staple products of Georgia; and every improvement had reference to this end. But this garden combised beauty and taste with utility; it covered ten acres of ground, and lay eastward from the town on a sloping descent, with fine avenues and groves of native trees, among which was the pride of the south, the palmetto, and the beauty of the earth, the magnolia grandiflora. In the autumn of this year, the colony had an accession This speech was made by the venerable Mico, with the of more than three hundred German protestants, fleeing from buffalo robe on his arm and Mary Musgrove by his side, to persecution; and so delighted were they with their new interpret sentence by sentence. Around them were gathered home in this sunny clime, that they wrote to their friends the the chiefs of the tribes, and before them were the English most extravagant descriptions of the spontaneous growth officers, emigrants, and the rangers on horseback. Though and beauty of the vegetation, the genial warmth and sa'tMary was not beautiful, her dark eye and raven tresses brity of the atmosphere, the indigenous vine mantling the grove, and all nature exhibiting a bright memorial of a ter- 1734, the little town of Savannah was enlivened by the restrial paradise uncontaminated by the fall: "So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time, Heav'n sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first." These Germans built a little village on the banks of the river, about twenty-five miles above Savannah, and called it Ebenezer, where some of their posterity still reside, speaking their native language, cherishing their Moravian faith, and practising its pure precepts with the primitive simplicity of their ancestors. scene of the embarkation. There was the aged Tomachichi and his wife Scenauky, his nephew Tooanahowi, a lad, his chief war-captain, Hylispilli, and the great chiefs Umpeachy and Tonohowi, with Mary as their interpreter, and her husband superintending the whole. Thousands of the Creeks had assembled to bid farewell to their beloved man, (as they called Oglethorpe,) and to part with their great king and relations, with many fears of never seeing them again; indeed, the destiny of Georgia was freighted in that cargo, and the news of their loss, would have been the signal of retreat from her soil. A change now comes o'er the scene, and the native sons of When Gen. Oglethorpe came to Georgia, he was thirty-America stand in the presence of the British throne, encir five years of age, of a tall and well proportioned figure, with a military air, having fought under the great Marlborough, and served as aid-de-camp to Prince Eugene; but as his commission in America was that of Governor of the Colony, he wore the dress of a private gentleman. It consisted of a scarlet coat, and white breeches with buckles at the knees and shoes; his waistcoat, which was without cape or collar, extended nearly to the knees, and was sloped on both sides from the front, being richly adorned with embroidery. If to this be added a white cambric stock, a three-cornered hat, and powdered hair terminating in a queue, with ruffles at the bosom and hands, we shall have a full length portrait of a conspicuous personage in our story. Temachichi, now in his ninety-first year, resided at his town a few miles above Savannah, where he was resorted to by the chiefs of his nation, as to a Patriarch; and as he sat at the door of his cottage, under the shade of a spreading oak, whose gnarled limbs bent beneath the long gray moss as it waved in the wind, one might have imagined he saw Abraham under his oak in the plains of Mamre, when visited by the angels. Hither Gen. Oglethorpe, with Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove, occasionally came to talk with the Mico, concerning their mutual interests, and to acquire information relative to the Indian territory and language. It was upon one of these visits, about twelve months after the arrival of the English in Georgia, that the venerable chief spread his hospitable board with primitive simplicity. His wife, Scenauky, brought venison and hominy, with milk and honey, which she disposed in earthen pans upon the green sward, and girded herself and served them, as they sat upon tripods under the oak. "This," said Oglethorpe, "is the way our ancestors in Britain ate, seventeen hundred summers since; like the Creeks, they wore but little clothing in a climate much colder than yours, and lived much among the groves, helieving that the Good Spirit dwelt there." "When they died, then," said the Mico, "they left their Good Spirit; but we go to ours, if we are good and brave." "And we," replied the General, "believe like you, and have teachers to tell the people how they may go safely." When you return to England, send us a teacher;" said the Indian: "I am too old to learn, but my children may learn." "I am going home very soon, and wish you would go with me to see our king, our land and our people," said Oglethorpe. "I would go, but cannot leave my squaw, my brother's son, (a lad who stood by) and my chief captain, Hylispilli." "You may take them with you, and we must prevail on Musgrove and Mary to accompany us; she will be a tongue for you and your wife, and her husband will attend your men." cled with all the pomp and splendor of the court. It was Nature in the presence of Art, or man as he is, paying homage to his own capabilities. There in regal state sat George II, surrounded by his nobility, and before them the noblest specimens of the genus homo, without education, unawed by their inferiority, or unembarrassed by the novelty of their situation. The Mico addressed the King thus"This day I see the majesty of your face, the greatness of your house and the number of your people. I am come in my old days, though I cannot expect to see any advantage to myself; I am come for the good of the children of the Upper and Lower Creeks, that they may be instructed in the language of the English. These are feathers of the eagle, which is the swiftest of birds, and which flyeth round our nations: these feathers are emblems of peace in our land, and have been carried from town to town. We have brought them over to leave them with you, O great King, as a token of everlasting peace. O great King, whatever words you shall say unto me, I will faithfully tell them to all the chiefs of the Creek nation." To which his majesty gave a most courteous answer; the heroine of our tale interpreting the whole. For four months these Indians were entertained magnificently at the tables of the grandees, attracting multitudes around them, "the observed of all observers" and no one more favored than she who could answer all inquiries. Mary was loaded with presents, and appeared more like a queen than Scenauky, whose age rendered her less attractive. The time approached for their return to America, and Musgrove had been absent for some time on a visit to his relatives in Kentshire, when the news reached London that he was lying ill. Mary hastened to his succor. After a few days he appeared better, and thought if he could once more get to sea he should soon be well. He made an effort to travel, and reached Gravesend, but the fatigue was too great, and he died there, two days before the Indians embarked for Georgia. Gen. Oglethorpe remained in England to advocate the interest of the Colony before parliament; and he procured the passage of a law prohibiting the importation of brandy or the introduction of slaves into the province of Georgia. How different then appeared the destiny of this State from that which awaited it. The imagination might have pictured its appearance at the end of a century, covered with vineyards and mulberry orchards, with Swiss and Italian cottages and silk factories, competing with the products of Europe and India-but whether the interests of the country or the virtue of the community, would have been thereby promoted, are questions of difficult solution. When Oglethorpe left Georgia, the government devolved upon the oldest magistrate, named Thomas Causton, who being of low origin, became intoxicated with his "little brief authority," and exercised all manner of oppression. "That is good said, we will go if Mary will," said "Looks," says McCall in his history, were criminal, Tomachichi and Mary turned to look at her husband, who and the grand sin of opposing justice to authority, was punremarked, that he had relatives in England, and should be ished without mercy." Such was the state of things at Saglad to oblige the Governor. vannah when the Indians returned from England; and their According to this arrangement, in the month of April, 'discontents soon grew to ominous signs of disloyalty; but old Causton averted the odium from himself, by charging | rude people, should look with indifference on the elegant Capt. Jas. Watson with stirring up animosities in the person of an Oxford scholar and an eloquent divine; and minds of the natives, and had him indicted and brought to we are not censorious when we accuse Miss Sophia of carrytrial; Causton acting in the threefold capacity of witness,ing home that day, a more tender impression of the speaker advocate and judge. The jury returned twice with a ver- than of his doctrines. dict of acquittal, but they were ordered to find him guilty and recommend him to the mercy of the court as a lunatic. The intimidated jury then found him guilty of lunacy; and Causton ordered him to prison, where he remained near three years. "This missionary," said she to her uncle, as they returned home from the service; "this clergyman has talents of too high an order to throw away on missionary labor among savages, and if I were you, uncle, I would try and keep him here." "It is Gov. Oglethorpe's wish to detain him," replied Causton, "but I fear he is too strict with the rules of the church, and will throw a restraint upon our innocent plea "But I will try to laugh him out of such enthusiasm, Hath borrow'd zephyr's voice, and gazed upon them The early flowers began to bloom, and the low grounds of Gen. Oglethorpe arrived the second time, on the 5th Feb. 1736, accompanied by several young missionaries from Oxford; two of whom were John and Charles Wesley, fresh from their scholastic studies, to encounter the pri-sures." vations of a wilderness in carrying the Gospel to unlettered savages. And with them came a number of that pious people, the Moravians. Next morning they all landed on a small island, over against Tybee, where they kneeled down and gave thanks to Him who had safely guided them to this peaceful shore. They then returned to the ship, to receive the numerous visiters flocking from Savannah to welcome their friends, or to gain intelligence from England. There were the Saltzbergers from Ebenezer, to meet their kinsmen from Germany. And there was old Causton, (the governor pro tem.) to pay his respects to his paramount lord, and foremost to gain his ear and confidence; and upon his arm leaned his accomplished niece Sophia, on whose gentle influence he relied, to cover his own asperities. And then came old Tomachichi with his head men, to welcome their beloved man; and with them came Mary Musgrove, weeping as if the grave of her husband had been opened; and the wounds of her bruised spirit bled again. On her return from England she purchased a little farm on the sea coast, known as the Cowpen, from having been the place where the cattle owned by the first settlers was kept. There, with an only brother named Griffin, she lived in retirement, occasionally visiting her venerable Mico; but the return of her benefactor brought her again into notice, and rendered her services necessary. On this occasion she interpreted the first conversation of Mr. Wesley with the Indians. Mr. Charles Wesley, as secretary to Gen. Oglethorpe, accompanied him to Frederica; and John remained with the Moravians, until a house was prepared for him. It was there he received his first lesson in the doctrine, which afterwards became the labor of his life to promulgate. From their pastor, the Rev. Mr. Spangenberg, he first heard that startling question, "Have you the witness of the Spirit, that you are a child of God?" To this he could only answer, 'I hope Christ has died to save me." Mr. Wesley was no hypocrite, neither was he deceived in his own piety; but like the apostle Peter, he could say, "Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison and to death,"-to whom the Lord replied, "When thou art converted strengthen thy brethren." On Sunday the 7th of March, the rude courthouse, the only place of worship then in Savannah, was crowded with a promiscuous congregation, to witness the debut of John Wesley in the New World. His age was then thirty-three; his person tall and spare, but stamped with the vigor of health; and his countenance open and calm; for When Gen. Oglethorpe returned to Savannah, Mr. Wesley urged the original object of his mission to Georgia-the carrying the Gospel to the natives; but he was told " ** you cannot leave Savannah without a minister to fill your plane." And all his subsequent attempts to prosecute his primary parpose were met with similar objections. In the meantime, his frequent visits to Mr. Causton's had attracted publie attention; and rumor, with her thousand tongues, spoke of love and marriage between the young couple-until Mr. Delamotte, Wesley's colleague in the mission, thought he saw in the lady "Semblance of worth, not substance;" and asked his friend if he intended to marry Miss Sorby Mr. Wesley evaded the question; but upon consultatien with his Moravian friends, who had lived longer in the Colony than himself, "he was advised to proceed no further in this business ;" and he pledged himself to conform to the advice. That Mr. Wesley was tenderly attached to this young lady there is no doubt; but that he ever proposed marriage, there is not the least evidence; neither can there be ary blame imputed for such an attachment, although it has been the theme of all his revilers. Mr. Charles Wesley returned to England in July, as bearer of despatches from Gov. Oglethorpe to the Trustees, leaving his brother with the Rev. Messrs. Delamotte and Ingham, projecting plans for the diffusion of knowledge among the untutored natives; but the want of preceptors "Like shadows on a stream, the forms of life in the Indian language presented an insuperable difficulty Impress their characters on the smooth forehead." in the way; and the absence of Mary Musgrove, either at her residence or accompanying her countrymen as an interBut the audience, we fear, were attracted more by curiosity preter on all important affairs with the governor, left them than a desire to receive benefit; for there were Germans, no alternative but patiently to wait the developments of French and Indians, who could not comprehend a word-time. Mr. Ingham, however, projected a plan of infantile and there sat the widow of Musgrove, and near her one instruction; and procured the consent of the Indians to his more fair, the pride of the Colony, the beautiful niece of building a house for that purpose at Irene, which was only old Causton. It is not to be expected that a young lady of cultivated taste and education, who had been accustomed for some time to see none but the unpolished sons of a a mile from the Cowpens. It stood on a small round hi in a fertile plain, not far from the mouth of the Savannah, and was designed to embrace some instruction in agricul ture, with the rudiments of an English education. The swords, lined the ship on one side, and on the other an inbouse had just been completed; the school was to open with dependent company of volunteers were marshalled; whilst the year 1737, and Mary Musgrove was to be an assistant the sailors manned the shrouds and kept sentry with drawn teacher, or interpreter to the children. She had agreed also cutlasses. If this scene intimidated the Spaniards, how to board such children as might come from a distance; and much more had they to apprehend from another source that her influence over the future prospects of the institution, day! The Spanish government of St. Augustine, had been rendered it important to win her to the Christian faith, if at constant war with the Creek nation; and the sloop Hawk possible; for, although she had heard Mr. Wesley preach, had been ordered down, as much for the protection of the and had interpreted for him in frequent conversations with commissioners againt the Indians, as for the safety of the her people, she had never evinced the slightest disposition | English against Spanish treachery. Whilst they were to become a Christian. But before the school opened, Mr. at dinner, and the sun sinking towards the horizon, there Wesley and Mr. Delamotte determined to try their influ-was an alarm given of Indian canoes, in warlike display ence once more, hoping, through her, not only to do good approaching. Their feathered ensigns floated in the air; to the Indian youth, but to spread the Gospel among the and their bright vermilion faces glistened in the sun, with a whole Creek nation. With this view, in the month of De-fearful glare. The Spaniards looked dismayed, and even cember, they set out with a guide to walk to the Cowpens, Gen. Oglethorpe feared he should not be able to restrain a distance of about ten miles, through an almost trackless them. But his fears were calmed when he saw that Tomawilderness; but after they had travelled several hours, their chichi was in command, and Mary Musgrove with her broguide told them plainly, he knew not where he was. Hoping ther Griffin in company. Then they were permitted to come still however to find their way, they went on until they on board the sloop. They were all dressed in their war came to a cypress swamp. It was then too late to return to equipment, and immediately demanded justice of the comSavannah that night; and urged forward by necessity, they missioners for murders committed by the Spanish, and obplunged into the water up to their breasts and reached the tained a promise of redress; but Mr. Oglethorpe was not so other side with safety, but only to increase their dilemma, fortunate in his negociations, for the Spaniards returned, for not even the wild deer had made a path there. The leaving the English in apprehension of immediate hostilities. shades of evening began to gather thick, and the frost to stiffen their wet clothing. At length, "Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world;" They laid down upon the saturated earth, without a fire to frighten off the prowling wolf, and slept till the morning without sustaining injury. In a few hours, they arrived at Mrs. Musgrove's. Here they found several of the Creek nation, who had brought their children to be schooled at Irene; and as it was now Christmas eve, Mr. Wesley explained to them the nativity of our Lord, and the plan of salvation. He dwelt upon the scenes at Gethsemene and at Calvary. But to men, accustomed to torture their enemies, and endure death without a groan, little pity could be awakened for a suffering Saviour. To Mary, however, the strongest appeals were made; and with what success, we may infer from the sequel of our narrative. Gen. Oglethorpe now prepared to return to England, to obtain a force equal to the exigency; and on his arrival there raised a regiment, which arrived in Georgia, in Sept. 1738; and with that regiment, designed for the defence of the Colony, came two persons, who at different periods were near destroying its founder and its liberty. One was a Catholic soldier who had been stationed at Gibraltar and spoke Spanish; the other was the Chaplain, named Thomas Bosomworth, who, under the sacred gown, carried an ambition that thought it "Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." But, ere we enter on his history, we must notice other clergymen as unlike him, "As an Angel to a satyr." you The When Gen. Oglethorpe was in Savannah, preparing to sail for England, he said to Mr. Wesley one day, as a company of Indians were passing by; "Do you see that tall fellow at their head, marked with red paint? He will shoot any man A short time before this, the Spanish governor of St. in this Colony for a bottle of rum." And the next morning, Augustine in Florida, sent Commissioners to demand that as Wesley was reading, with his back to the window, he the English should immediately evacuate the territories of suddenly found his light obstructed; and turning round, saw Georgia, but Gov. Oglethorpe not wishing them to see the the painted Indian looking at him. He stepped to the door, weakness of his defences, met them at Jykill island, where invited him in, and offered him something to eat. he pitched two magnificent tents, and there held a confer-savage surveyed him for some time; then threw down his ence with Don Carlos Dempsey and Don Pedro Lamberto. gun, clasped him in his arms and kissed him. After he Lamberto was a man of good sense and well bred though was gone, and whilst Wesley pondered what it could mean, born in Florida, and had never been to Europe. Demp- the General entered and said; "Were intimidated by sey was a proud and lofty Spaniard, with the arrogance of the Indian? I did not send him to harm you, but to show one raised from obscurity. They opened their commission you how imprudent it might be in my absence to provoke by stating, "that Don Francisco del Moral Sanches Ville- the anger of others." And next day, when about to embark, gas, Governor of his Catholic Majesty's dominions of Flo-he said to old Causton; "As you regard my favor, take heed rida, claimed by right of gift from his holiness the Pope, that you do not quarrel with Mr. Wesley." We shall see all the territory south of Savannah river; and they re- in the sequel, how this advice was observed. quired that the British should forthwith retire from all the After the departure of Oglethorpe, Causton again ruled country south of St. Helma sound." To this Oglethorpe the ascendant; and since Wesley's visits to his niece had replied, that they might by the same right claim all the con- been less frequent than formerly, his conduct had become tinent of America, as he believed it would come under a more coldly polite. Miss Sophia continued, however, a general grant of his Holiness, to the King of Spain. Noth- devout member of the church; and although it was evident ing was concluded on that day; and the next day, the com- that her cheek had lost its bloom, and a tinge of melanmissioners were invited to dine on board of the sloop-of- choly shaded her brow, yet no one dared to say she had war Hawk, Capt. Gascoigne, then lying in Jykill sound. been crossed in love, for fear of her uncle's wrath. In the When they came on board, they were astonished at the following spring, she was married to a Mr. Williamson; military array that surrounded them. A company of highland- and with the cares of her new state, neglected her religious ers from Inverness (now Darien), which had arrived during duties. Mr. Wesley as her pastor, admonished and rethe night, all dressed in their plaid, with targets and broad-proved, and ultimately refused her the Sacrament of the |