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ft ,t*!ffTS* of the GEORGIA GAZETTE.
“SIS.
4 f tSe Reverend Mr. Wkltefield bath ji# nublilhed a Letter to
r m kit Excellency Governor Wright, including hit correfpon
/ I dtnee with hit Grace the Arcbbilhop of Canterbury, relative
yT to the converting the Orphan-house Into a, College, and
finer tMre are hat very few copies of theft letter* yet at*
ftvedf, perhaps It aaay not he unacceptable to your reader! in general to
fefort In yttr paper the following extra&s from them : By there may be
Jbnacd fame idea of Mr. Whitefield’t pad eonduA and future, design.
The great paint he hath taken, notwithftaading the unpromifiag afped
of gflCtft at home, and the several draughts of the charter which be compos
ed, la order to conform, at far at wat confident with hit integrity, to other
edabfHhmeact of tbo like kind, fudiciently demon (Irate hit anweaned da-
Hgeirce to fonrt chit province. I am, Sir, Tour very hambic servant,
July 19. i?6S. E L .
r , To Hit Socelkncy Governor WaionT.
Excellency, together with the member* of hi* Majeftv’s ho
-7V pourable council, and house of reprefentativet, were pleased at my
MM vi|t an dm Orphan-house, not only highly to approve of, hut also
dauply to interest yonrfelvet ia tbo design of conferring the present Geor
gia Orphan-house into a colleges lb I am persuaded, you make no doubt,
but thatever since my arrival hi England, in July 1765, 1 have exerted
Sutmoi effort* in cadexvouring to bring this important affair to a de.
ble iflue. To mention all the various circuinllance* which have oc
curred daring that interval, to impede and retard it* more fpcedy prefe
cation, would be tedious and unnecefiary: I would therefore only inform
your Excellency, that about fifteen months ago. a memorial wat deliver
ed into the hands of thejate clerk of hit Majesty’s mad honourable privy
coaacil. That ibis memorial was by bin* transmitted to tho Lord Prefi*
dent, and by hit LordAip referred to the confiderntton of hit Grace tho
Archbi(hop of Canterbury * that by hit Grace's permifiion a literary cov
tefpondroce ensued ; but at that correfpoadeoce, and with that, the n*
rooation Itfclf feemt at an ead, I think it my duty, not only to lay an
account of the whole beforo your Excellency in particular, but, through
WTirVrtinim ’ mmA boo.M tepmt
colon* Ri, and the pabltck In general, on both fide* the water, who have
contributed to the promoting this design.
tu ‘ - Mr. Whitefield to the Archbiftop.
. Mm Grow, Jmt ip, tyfiy.
1 THINE. myfelf highly honoured in the L— f ■■ ■*—t*t • referring a
-a baa memorial to your Grace** cenfideratiou; and at highly obliged
On your Gnace, for tho drop attention your Graoo hath given to the copy
of an imaadad chartopprefcnted to your Grace by tho R— of D h.+
wfflakiMU will fiww what an dnofi Implimto regard hath been paid
Muywar Grant's wife remark* s and jadkioat coiteJKons.— I with it canid
hero been altogether implicite—But rireamftnacet avefuch (at hath been
hiatal to yoor Grace by L— P ■—h) that I cannot in honoar and
confidence Mrt the mater of the Georgia College to boa member or mi
acftwof Me anarch of England. Such an obligation, lam persuaded,
hath (toady retarded the progreft of the college of New-York 5 at bn the
contrary, the letter figoed by yOur Grace, Proprietor Peon, and the late
DoAor Chandler, enraging that that inftitutiou flull be continued on a
uo*b aorVost, had* at mach promoted the growth of the college of
Pbtfadri akin.—Tho trnßrot of that femioary (a* your Grace it pleated to
obfirve) bant agreed “ That their Provbft mil always be a minister of the
eftabliAed church."—But then I would beg leave to reply, that th*y are
not thereto uuntAt by their charter. Thar it entirely fileae croceraing
Mis matter— I Their agrroraent it purely volfutarjr.—Thewardentof the
rolkgaol Georgia will not be prohibited by charter from following the
itiiph of the trustees of the college of Philadelphia—lt it more than
probable they will never aoad it. The fir(l mailer will afluredty he a cler
gy man of the church of England—-By for the majority of the intended
wardens wo, and always will he members of that commanion; and cro
feqnearly the Choice of a mailer will always continue to run in that chan
mei—My heart's desire it that feme worthy duly qualified minister of tho
/ dwKh.of England may ho always and readily found for that grand pur
poft. But left this should net always be the case, 1 dare not, as perfont
of alt detfonriaations have been contri baton, confine or fetter the future
eUftor*. The monies gained by the New-York lotteries, for tkecreAing
a college in New-York, were thrown in by persons of all religious perfna
fion*. Tu confidence, that the college would hereafter be founded on an
enlarged bail. And therefore, very treat numbers, may it please your
Grace, think, and for ever will think them (elves injured by its being
confined within its present con traded boundary. Hence it is, that many ‘
fine promising youths are almost daily font from the college *u their na
tive city to that of Ncw-Jorfey—l dread giving the. fame occnfioa of re
sentment and offence—And therefore am determined to avoid it in tho
wording nf the Georgia College charter—For the fame reasons 1 dare net
enjoin the daily ufo of oar Church liturgy. I love to bft it, I have fallen *
a martyr, ia refpeft to bodily health, tn the frequent'rending it in Tab.
teaham-Court chapel 1 and it hat bocaconftantiy retd twsea every Sunday
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■ t A enfarntmt if mmitujwlmiflimtiibi JrekH/kt/i nmmrh, Mr. WMtfM
irn* if md/nA t him mmktr draught •/ tb* tnttndt4 <£****r o ..
fr EDNES D Ar, Jut/ 37, 1768.
in the Orphan-house, from its firft tnftitotion to this very day.n*Tho
wardens, when the power is devolved on them, may dewrmine thi* point
m they pteafe—But I cannot enjoin it bvcharter—And have therefore, in
thi* present draught, not only omitted the paragraph concerning peUidt
prayer, but also that concerningdo&rinal articles. Perhaps your Grace
may judge, that ail things conndcrtd, faying nothing about cither, map
be n proper medium—Your Grace farther wifely observes, •• That hit
*• Majefiy ftsould be very well advited whom be name* for the firft mo*
*• fter.”—l trust he will. I believe the Right Honourable the Eerl of
Q -■■■■— ■ h will vouchfitfe to intcreft himftlf in the choiee, and likewift
be so good as to present the firft master to your Grace’s approbation—
Tho toms of the charter being hot at yet fettled, tho cholcTOf a maftdr
cannot as yet he fixed upon. Whet the former hre xfeertained, the lat
ter may mare easily be applied for—ln tho man while your Grace may
be aflured ahat the let will aos fall upon me. Aim! my foouMerrore fo#
weak for the fun port of fnco an academical burden: My capacity, majf
it please your Grace, ii teao mean* extensive enough for fwhlMHm’
lafttck trust—To -be a graft yet xt large it the ftatioo, whfobt dfifok,
divine providence hath called me to for aeae these thirty year* talk oaft—
Daring that space, I tnift my eye hath been in feme degree single, end
mg views difiaterefted: and my highest, my only ambition, dnringthW
feeble remains of my future pilgrimage, I xruft will be tbit, via. Thad
thelaft glimmering* of an expiring taper may be blfoftfi, and owned ly
the great Shepherd and Biftiop.ofTonis, to guide (mfidwilerin 11 ffdifori
to the praftical knowledge ofhlmtelf. 1 desire to bhn hit name, that t
have been spared long enough to lee the colony of the fihec despised Geor-’
gin, and the yet more despised Orphan hoefe, advanced to such a pro
mi fi nr height. My honoured friend awl father, fifed W hop Benson.
from hi* dying bed, sent me n boanfoAfoa for it *f ten guineas, and
poured forth hi* moll fervent dyiagbreathing* fortft future prosperity.
1 —That yonr Graoe may yet live foMy yean, toWMfilgpity inftnrtnentai
in promoting k* welfare, both fpiriwH and tvmptfal, when
a college, ia the earned prayer of Mnf it please frace*l
mod dutiful, obliged Son and Servant, G. WHI TtPIKLD.
Tmndttm. Curt R*M, Junt 17, 17*7.
The Archbiltop Mr. Whitefieli. “ .
r hath put Mr. Whitefield's draught of. f
E a charter for a college in Georgia into the hand* of the J,ord Prefi.
dritt, who hath promt fed to confider it; but defiret to know from Mr.
Whiteleld, what present codowment, and to what value, he propate*
for hit college. ‘ ,
7* i 17*;.
(T* U tamdudti ia aur mat.)
■nirrnia ‘^ ,l q’ ‘o Amm I*. |
ONI day last week as a great peribnage wa* aping to Richmond, *c
compaoird by hi* tlluftrioot consort, a rabfele tn the road thither,
gathered round bit carriage; clnmoronfly begging a pardon for V?. mfi
grew so numerous and trenblefeme, that the great personages thought pro-‘
per to return to town. r
We also Ketr that one of the brothers of the above great per font vet’
was topped by the mob now Brentford, in bit cairiage, and they infidel
on his polling off his bat, and hollow out Wilke t mad Marty.
We bear that the Dakc of Cumberland*! honfe was illuminated on Mon*
day night, and that lights were put out at Sc. Jamat’a in compliance wit*
the populace.—Such a prudent compliance at the Manfion-hoefe would
have prevented much damage.
The general toast among the friends of the popular patriot now it, Mat
Liktrty mater aaam m Wdkgt ; aadfay WUkit never vetm Liberty.
The following toad it drank every night in the mod police cowrit*
nict about town, filer the light af Liberty never be put am by • Scotch aa
tigguljbar l”
April 19. It it reported, that the E. of B. hat a&aalty intereded him.
foif much on behalf of John Wilkes, Est), with a Very great perfonarc.
If so, mud not the tongue of dander and malevolence be druch dam > at .
such an in dance of magaanimity 1
Private letters from Genoa inform, that several maritime powers had
lately entered into treaties of commerce with the people of Corsica.
They write from Leghorn, that several more tout Oordcafi privateer*
are fiuiagoniio-Porto Perraio, to cruize on the eoaft of Genoa.
It it now confidently afierted, that if the French (hail tend twenty baftri*
taliona of their troops againtt the brave Corficaat, nation
will at last step forth a* the publick guardian of Liberty A fit chic rmpor*
tant news may he expefted. /^ * t>
It it reported, that orders will soon be givee for th ariiteem in the
docic"yards at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Chatham, c* hb iagmrateri,
in,order to fit one fcVeral (hips of war, which are eri iteake their hppeir
ance in a the Mediterranean. *> t
April el. We hear that Mr. Lyttleeoa’s negoctation with the f *te- -
gucl# Minidry is totally at a dand; and that there is little or no profpeft *
of hi* foccote in the important okjeds of his miSoo.
. ittrad af a Uttar /ham Merlin, April s.
,*? There .ha* lately bee* a grand review of a grant many of our* b-ft >
allot whom, hefides their usual arms, have been furaitbej'wfth ‘
large hamhetf, add’ with such droag (hoes as the Croatians wear whda
climbing cbgir rugged mountains. Orders hare been given them to pre-' ’
pare for a very longyianfc. No mortal can fay with ebrufoty What eel