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on the southern side of South Carolina, which was
exposed to the possibility of Spanish attack from
Florida. Here Oglethorpe and his associates, including
 Thomas Coram, who had lived in New England,
and who later was the father of the Foundling
Hospital, obtained a grant from the Crown, being incorporated
 by charter in June 1732, as trustees for the
colonisation of Georgia. They were to administer the
colony for twenty-six years, after which it was to pass to
the Crown. The scheme is described by Mr. Doyle as
¢ the first attempt to devote a colony systematically and
exclusively to the relief of pauperism,’ and Oglethorpe
himself as ¢ the founder of modern philanthropy.”
In his reference to the subject in one of the chapters
which he contributed to the Cambridge Modern History,
 Doyle points out, as other writers have pointed
out also, that, in the double object of relieving distress
at home and forming a barrier against Spain, Oglethotpe’s
 scheme was in some sort a reversion to the
views of the Elizabethan time.? Oglethorpe himself
had a strong strain of the knight-errantry which was in
evidence in the earlier age, and in his designs colonisation
 was the prime element, religion was greatly concerned,
 but trade had little place. In October 1732
he took out a first party of carefully chosen inmates of
the debtors’ prisons, over one hundred in number,
arriving at his destination on the Savannah river in
February 1733. The story of his administration contains
 various points of very great interest, but they

i The Colonies under the Hosuse of Hanover, chap. viii, pp. 417-18.
* The Cambridge Modern History (1903), vol. vii: The United States,
chap. ii, pp. 61-3.