the Earl of Halifax, sinecures to the amount of £800 per

annum.

In consequence of continued ill-health he went to France, and located himself at Marseilles. In 1805 he resided in Naples, and even then was occupied in his favourite maritime researches. But he died the next

He was, at his death,

year, over eighty-five years old. the father of the "Royal Society," having been longer connected with it than any other member-enjoying the honour of a Fellow nearly fifty-seven years-having been admitted to membership about nine months before the election of General Oglethorpe.

The colony planted by Oglethorpe, nurtured by the Trustees, fostered by Parliament, tyrannized over by Reynolds, and cherished by the kind government of Ellis, had passed its infancy and youth-an infancy of weakness, a youth of sorrow-and now began to rejoice in the first freedom of its early manhood. It gave promise of a noble maturity; the results of that pomise constitute the theme of our remaining history.

Let there then go up a tribute of gratitude to Him, through whose protecting care alone, this "little one has become a thousand," and this "small one a great nation," because "the Lord hath spoken it."

LIST OF TRUSTEES.

APPENDIX.

LIST OF THE TRUSTEES. WITH NOTICES OF THE SAME.

TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY THE CHARTER.

1. JOHN, LORD PERCEVAL.

THIS nobleman-lineally descended from Ascelin Gouel de Perceval, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England—was the son of Sir John Perceval, Knight and Baronet of Ireland. After becoming a Privy Councillor of Ireland, and a member of its Parliament for many years, he was elevated to the Peerage of that kingdom, in 1715, as Baron Perceval; in 1722, was created Viscount Perceval; and in 1733, was advanced to an Earldom in Ireland, as Earl of Egmont. (Burke, in his "Peerage and Baronetage,' makes the patent for this last title to be given in consequence of Lord Perceval's being nominated first President of the Trustees for settling Georgia. But this is not so; for he was nominated President only for the first meeting; and after their organization, the office was held in rotation, a different member presiding at each meeting; and further, the Trustees had existed as a body nearly a year and a half before the patent of Earldom was granted to Lord Perceval.) He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a writer of several works of much merit; among them was a small volume styled, "Remarks upon a Scandalous Piece entitled, 'A Brief Account of the Causes which have retarded the Colony of Georgia;' being a reply to a pamphlet written by Thomas Stephens, son of William Stephens,