Critics carped. The Trustees were grafters, they said, and Georgia was not worth a war. Sir John Cotton was so bold as to urge in Parliament that Port Royal be made the boundary, as Spain demanded. The Trustees finally triumphed. Georgia was declared useful to England, and Stephens, the chief critic of the Trustees, was publicly humiliated.2 [Note 2 For discussion in England of the value of Georgia and of plans for a campaign, see Ga. Col. Rec., IV, supplement, 234, 253, 275; Ga. Col. Rec, V, 273, 293-313, 355, 416, 422, 430, 432-436, 489, 496-498, 514-555 (settlers for Georgia), 560, 561, 565, 575-579, 589, 592, 601, 611, 612, 619, 620, 633, 635-636, 637-644; Wright, Memoir, 280; Go. Col. Rec., XXIII, 459. For proposals of Harman Verelst and Oglethorpe, concerning the war in Georgia and Florida, and proceedings thereon by the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, October 15-November 20, 1741, see Ford, Vernon-Wager Manuscripts, 98-99.] Vindicated, Egmont rejoiced that his enemy would be "brought to his marrow-bones." On June 30, 1742, the luckless young Stephens, in full view of Parliament, bent one knee before his accusers. This was not enough. "Both knees," demanded the Speaker; and both joints were flexed for half an hour. The Trustees gloated to witness their critic's degradation. But England's chance to take the offensive had passed, for Spain had assumed that position.