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Malcontents' comments on the Georgia Charter

Source: A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America #173

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From 1741 A True and Historical Narrative
edited by Amy

IN the Year 1732, His Majesty was pleased to erect by ROYAL CHARTER into a separate Province, distinct from South-Carolina, that Space of Land lying between the Rivers Savannah and Alatamaha [Altamaha?], under the Name of GEORGIA.

AS this Gracious Charter is the Basis of all the Transactions relating to this Province, which have so much amused and perplexed the World, and which our Endeavor is to set in a true Light; we cannot dispense with inserting the Charter at large, which we are confident, for many Reasons, will be acceptable to the Reader:

...THE gracious Purposes and ample Privileges contained in the foregoing CHARTER are so obvious to every Reader that we need only say they were suitable to a most generous and humane British Monarch; and had the Settlement of the Colony of Georgia been
carried on conformable thereto and no other Restrictions or Reservations made than what are therein mentioned, then the Colony would be flourishing right now, answerable to all those glorious Ends that were proposed and expected from it: But on the Contrary, Laws and Restrictions being made such as were never heard of in any British Settlement, the Colony is brought to the present melancholy Situation. But we shall say no more at present on this Head than what Mr. Oglethorpe said in Parliament relating to the Charitable Corporation, in other words. * The better the Design was, the more those deserve to be punished who have disappointed the Public of Reaping the Benefits that might have accrued from it. *Vide Lond. Mag. p. 379.