{"1": {"fulltext": "Illippiliiiiiip^^^\\nIS\\niilii iiiSiiiiiiiiiiisll^^illii\\nIII\\nHi\\nl!il!liii^iiiiiii?ii; i!s!:J-^^\\nF 286\\n.S85\\n1", "height": "3523", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ".-e. .v^^A.v c .^f\\n.4^ -.^^B?.**\\nAT\\nW- J\\nW j y\\np:.-y\\\\\\n0^\\nX X\\n*^tV ^q,. **T% ^0\\ntc a* .J\\n?.o** V^^y .^?^o\u00c2\u00ab-* V^^A-^\\n\\\\o*\u00c2\u00b0V-.\\nV*^\\nV..^\\n4\\n_^c\u00c2\u00bb\\nV\\n.0...\\nV*^^\\\\ v\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0n^^ _,\\nV ^i^ V* q.;*^-f.vo 5\\n!?-nK\\no_\\nA^", "height": "3304", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ".45\u00c2\u00b0*\\no^ v;\u00c2\u00ab*\\n^il\u00c2\u00b0\\n-^^-..-J^^-y^-\\n^q,. ^0^ V **nTo-\\n0*^\\nS\\n^^-n^.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2l^w V\\n7\\nv .aw.- i\u00c2\u00bb:^-- .4\\n.0^ c*--./ ^0.\\n/^^i 0^-:=^^ /\\\\*i-;?^^\\\\\\n.L^L%\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Too\\n5 J\\n.\u00c2\u00ab5\u00c2\u00b0*\\n.-^K-.\\n^^4.^^ -jm^^^ \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^j.n t p*\u00c2\u00ab^^si0r- ^bv^\\nv^^-**^^o^\\n^^0^\\nr-\\njp-nk\\nV* ^i^\u00c2\u00ab*.# o.. -Tr;.* ,o\\n\u00c2\u00abf", "height": "3304", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "OBSERVATIONS\\n1\\nDOCTOR STEVENS S\\nHISTORY OF GEORGIA.\\nWhat overgrown piece of lumber have we here? cried the curate.\\nDon Quixote.\\nJ of WisKvC^\\nA V ANN AH\\nMDCCCXLIX.", "height": "3299", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3299", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "OBSERVATIONS\\nDOCTOR STEVENS S\\nHISTORY OF GEORGIA\\nA History of Georgia, from its first Discovery by Europeans, to the\\nAdoption of the present Constitution, mdccxcviii. By Rev. William\\nBacon Stevens, M.D., Professor of Belles Lettres, History, etc., in the\\nUniversity of Georgia, Athens. In two volumes. Vol. I. New York,\\n1847. 8yo. pp. 503.\\nThe Preface of this book announces that it was\\nundertaken in the year 1841, and that every facility\\nhas been afforded for its composition, both by the\\nHistorical Society, and by private individuals.\\nThe title-page proclaims its author to be a Pro-\\nfessor of Belles Lettres and History, and fixes the\\ndate of its publication in the year 1847.\\nThus the inferences that it is accurate in state-\\nment and correct in style, are only not suggested.\\nSix years would give ample time for frequent and\\ndeliberate revivsions, for the rectification of mistakes", "height": "3299", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "4 OBSERVATIONS ON DR. STEVENS S\\ncommitted in haste, or through negligence, and for\\nthe removal of any redundancies or improprieties of\\nlanguage. Six years did elapse between the com-\\nmencement and publication.\\nThe natural conclusion from the preliminary parade\\nof the author s advantages is, that he has availed\\nhimself of them that the volume which he pre-\\nsents (for and in consideration of the sum of two\\ndollars and fifty cents per copy) to A/s heloved\\nstate, as an offering of first fruits^ from the harvest\\nof her past memorials, f is, what it ought to be.\\nNor is there any disclaimer offered to repress such\\na conclusion. There is not the slightest appearance\\nof a modest diffidence of his own abilities, not a\\nThree pages before this (Preface, p. ix.), we find Doctor Stevens writing\\nthus: Entering a field of enquiry which has been reaped by four prede-\\ncessors, I could scarcely expect to do more than glean here and there a sheaf\\nwhich the sickle had spared, or the reaper neglected. As they now stand,\\nthese two declarations are directly contradictory. One of them must be\\nuntrue, or perhaps he has only put the cart before the horse. The figure\\nof reaping, c., is stale enough, Doctor Stevens, with an originality quite\\ningenious, turns it topsy-turvy. He begins by gleaning with the humility\\nof a Ruth after the reapers, and ends with gathering the whole harvest, and\\noffering the first fruits to his beloved state, Georgia. Poor Georgia\\nhers is a woman s name, hers has been a woman s fate Trusting yielding\\ndeserted To the empty mouth that gave her empty professions she\\nreturned abundance of food, and seated ignorance in the chair of learning.\\nBut what in the recipient of her generosity was ungrateful abandonment,\\nhas been for Georgia a happy deliverance.\\nf Preface, p. xii.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF GEORGIA. 6\\nsingle admission of imperfection, not a doubt as to\\nthe adequacy of his powers to his work, not a hint of\\na possibility of its not being immaculate.\\nThe tone of the Preface is that of presumptuous\\negotism the rest of the work is marked by shallow-\\nness and incapacity. We looked for a thing of\\nlife, and behold an abortion for comeliness, and\\nbehold a monster It is put forward, too, with a\\npert confidence worthy of the hero of nursery re-\\nnown\\nLittle Jack Horner sat in the corner,\\nEating a Christmas pie\\nHe put in his thumb, and he took out a plum,\\nAnd said What a good boy am I\\nIndeed a serene self-satisfaction pervades the whole\\nperformance. If anything were wanting to complete\\nthe absurdity of the book, this would do it. Self-\\nconceit is ridiculous, and impotence is ridiculous\\nbut united in such proportions as this book exhibits\\nboth in such monstrous development rare!\\nFor a man to talk nonsense is bad enough but to\\ntalk nonsense with the air of one uttering wisdom\\nvanity can carry folly no farther.\\nWith equal self-approbation, and equal uncon-\\nsciousness of the fantastic figure she cut, did Madge\\nWildfire lead good little Jeanie Deans up the church", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "6 OBSERVATIONS ON DR. STEVENS S\\naisle before the amazed congregation. But poor\\nMadge was crazed.\\nThe Preface contains no apology for defects, but\\nit gives a reason for introducing this miserable\\nbantling of a meretricious muse to our notice. It\\ndeclares the work was written to supply the want,\\nlong felt, of a history of Georgia. The deficiency\\ntruly has been remedied. The gap has been filled\\nup. But how Rags have been stuffed into the\\nbroken window, and the hole is no longer oj^en.\\nThe tempest is kept out, but so is the light.\\nYet perhaps tis rather fortunate for the Historical\\nSociety that this book has proved a failure. Were\\nit what it assumes to be, it would have necessarily\\ncovered the whole ground, and rendered the future\\nlabours of the Society works of supererogation.*\\nNothing would have remained for that respectable\\nassociation to do, but to hold meetings and elect\\nmembers. The main purpose of its formation being\\naccomplished, there would have been little use in\\nthe protraction of a feeble and languishing existence.\\nThe completion of an accurate and well-written\\nhistory of Georgia will necessarily be a finishing\\nstroke to the Society. It will be the fulfilment of\\nits function. If, however, it should survive that\\nevent, and still linger on, it must degenerate from\\nSee Appendix.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF GEORGIA. 7\\nthe dignity of a Society down to a mere club of\\nJonathan Oldbucks.\\nWith this view, we regard the failure of this\\nbook as its chiefest merit the Society being thereby\\nrelieved from an unpleasant and probably unforeseen\\npredicament a position of uselessness and insigni-\\nficance.\\nCertainly Doctor Stevens s work can never cause\\nsuch a deplorable catastrophe. Instead of a history,\\nit is a sort of historical patchwork, in which the\\npieces about Georgia are rather more numerous than\\nthe others. It abounds, too, in errors as to fact,\\nwhich in the course of our remarks we shall endea-\\nvour to expose, and shall not hesitate to rebuke\\nand is also distinguished for a style so grandilo-\\nquent, so preposterous, so pompous, so corrupt, so\\ngrotesquely incongruous with the simplicity of the\\nsubject, that every attempt we have made to give\\nit serious consideration has ended in a hearty fit\\nof laughter. It is difficult to condemn what is so\\ndelightfully absurd. We have a kindness for its\\nvery faults they have afforded us so much merri-\\nment. It is too ridiculous for contempt we laugh\\nand pity.\\nThe big words about little things the ambitious\\ndiction, not unfrequently rising into nonsense the\\nlaboured nothings lavished with indiscriminate", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 OBSERVATIONS ON DR. STEVENS S\\nprofusion upon the most trivial occasions all remind\\nUS irresistibly of the issue of the famous labour\\nParturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.\\nIt is indeed very funny to observe how every sub-\\nject which affords the slightest opening for a burst of\\nimpassioned loquacity, is relentlessly tortured into\\nsome relation with the history of Georgia how the\\nmeagre theme of our early annals has been expanded\\ninto a volume competent to contain an ancient\\nempire s story how the simple, dry details have\\nbeen bedizened with rhetorical decorations, like an\\nold, enduring dowager s withered phiz set about with\\nflowers, till we are revolted at a contrast which\\nmakes dryness seem drier, ugliness more hideous,\\nand even bloom repulsive.\\nBut not even this is quite so amusing as the\\nself-satisfaction evinced throughout the book, the\\ntriumphant air with which the nonsense is produced,\\nand the conviction, everywhere apparent, that this\\nfine writing will achieve for the author his coveted\\nliterary immortality.\\nThe frequent repetition of these tropes and figures,\\nhowever, diminishes the amusement to be derived\\nfrom them they cease to be diverting, and become\\ntiresome. The reader is at last fatigued by the\\neternal glitter, though it be but the glitter of tinsel.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF GEORGIA. 9\\nand he is palled and sickened by the exuberant flow\\nof an insipid and ornate twaddle.\\nMr. Diedrich Knickerbocker commences his cele-\\nbrated History of New York with an account of the\\ncreation of the world his first book containing\\ndivers ingenious theories and philosophic specula-\\ntions concerning the creation and population of the\\nworld, as connected with the history of New York.\\nDoctor Stevens has not sufficient hardihood to\\nascend to quite so remote a period, but contents\\nhimself with beginning with the discovery of Ame-\\nrica. He accordingly devotes his first book to an\\naccount of early voyages to the southern coast gene-\\nrally, and of settlements in Florida and S(mth Caro-\\nlina; diversified by digressions which carry him as\\nfar South as the ruins of Central America, and into\\ndiscussions respecting their probable origin and the\\ncharacter of the inscriptions upon them in the course\\nof which we are indulged with a good deal of stuff\\nabout Echo gigantic columns halls of banqueting\\nsilent chambers Shemitic art and so forth. All\\nof which, digressions about Central America, narra-\\ntives of Spanish settlements in Florida, and of\\nFrench settlements in Carolina, no doubt throw\\ngreat light on the history of Georgia\\nThis first book also contains a short notice of\\n2", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 OBSERVATIONS ON DR. STEVENS S\\nthe Indians; which, from the miniitia3 introduced\\ninto it, would seem to be the result of contem-\\nporary observation, if not the offspring of imagina-\\ntion. They lived, says our author,=^ in their\\nnative wildness, amid the sublime solitudes of Ame-\\nrica; now hunting the timid deer now paddling\\nthe birch canoe now dancing at their simple\\nfestivals now going forth, painted and plumed for\\nbattle or now, gathered around their council fires,\\nto the grave debates of chiefs and warriors. And\\nhe might have gone on now kissing their wives\\nnow smacking their lips ^now eating their dinner\\nand now going without now snoring asleep\\nnow yelling awake and so on in the same strain\\nfor ever, with equal appositeness and with equal\\npropriety.\\nWe will select from this first book jjesides, a\\nsentence which contains a curious specimen of the\\nmetamorphosis of poetic beauty into prosaic non-\\nsense. It occurs in a laboured parallel between\\nAlaric and De Soto, who should henceforth be\\ndoubtless considered notables in the history of\\nGeorgia.\\nLike Alaric, who ravaged the Roman empire,\\nDe Soto came from a far country to waste and to\\ndestroy. The one poured his barbarian hordes from\\nPage 44.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF GEORGIA. 11\\nthe Alpine hills* over the plains and valleys of\\nItaly the other, crossing the Atlantic with destruc-\\ntion at Ills ijroio, and terror at Ms helm, desolated\\nthe fairest portions of the sunny South. f\\nEvery one remembers the charming lines of\\nGray\\nFair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,\\nWhile proudly riding o er the azure realm\\nIn gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;\\nYouth on the prow and Pleasure at the helmP\\nDoctor Stevens has borrowed the poet s beautiful\\nline, and marred it in the borrowing. He has\\nserved it, to use Sheridan s expression, as gypsies\\ndo stolen children, disfiguring them to make em\\npass for their own. In the verses we have quoted,\\nproio and helm refer to a ship the gilded vessel.\\nIn our author s paragraph, they either mean the\\nproio and helm of the man Ferdinand de Soto\\nor else must be turned adrift without any meaning\\nat all. There is not a ship anywhere within sight\\nof them.\\nIf Doctor Stevens had been a Welshman, we\\nmight have supposed he meant by De Soto s proio\\nThe author probably means the Alps which, as is well known, are\\namong the loftiest mountains in Europe,\\nt Page 25.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 OBSERVATIONS ON DR.STEVENS S\\nhis hroio helm being a poetical fonn for helmet.\\nAs it now stands, the sentence certainly has no\\nmeaning in English.\\nThe propriety of occuj^ying fifty-five octavo pages\\nof a history of Georgia in what is strangely enough\\ncalled Anfe-colomal liistonj that is, no history at\\nall is somewhat problematical. It is, nevertheless,\\nno small proof of talent, that a man should be able\\nto write fifty-five octavo pages of a State s lilstonj,\\nhefore there was any State, and consequently before\\nthere was any history.\\nBut this consideration evidently did not enter\\ninto the question. The object being to make a\\nbook, fifty-five octavo pages on any subject what-\\never were not to be disregarded.\\nOne of the most striking peculiarities of this book\\nis the talent for Am])lification it displays. True, not\\na single subject is made to appear more dignified\\nor important; but ^like stretched India rubber\\ntenuity of sul^stance increases in exact proportion\\nto extension of surface and the sense is often lost\\nin diffuseness of phraseology.\\nWhen tea is over diluted, the mixture is called\\nslop; and when little sense is dressed up in very\\nmany and very big words, the composition is called\\ntwaddle. Thus twaddle is a sort of literary slop.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF CxEORGIA. 13\\nBut they differ in this that slop is apt to produce\\nrepletion before satiety while with twaddle, satiety\\nprecedes repletion. Or to state it less abstractly,\\na man may, on occasion, drink slop till he can hold\\nno more, without being satiated; but that a man\\nshould not get enough of Doctor Stevens s history\\nof Georgia, before he gets to the end of it, we\\nconceive to be impossible.\\nThe ship which brought the first colonists to\\nGeorgia, sailed from England, November 17th, 1732,\\nand arrived at Charleston, January 13th, 1733. This\\nis a plain statement of a plain fact. It is, moreover,\\nall that is known about that fact. But it makes\\nonly one brief sentence and nothing less than half\\na page would suit our author. If such a chance\\nfor amplification was neglected, how was a bulky\\noctavo to be eked out, price two dollars and fifty\\ncents So he tells us that a ship s j^rogress at sea\\nis not measured by milestones in other words,\\nthat a ship does not sail on a turnpike road and\\nmore to the same purpose.\\nThe ship sailed the next day, November 17th,\\n1732, from Gravesend, skirted slowly along the\\nsouthern coast of England, and, taking its departure\\nfrom Scilly light, spread out its ivhite sails to the\\nof the Atlantic.\\nDay after day, and week after loeeh, the voyagers", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 OBSERVATIONS ON DR. STEVENS S\\nseem the centre of tlie same watery circle, canojned\\nhy the same hending shy. No milestones tell of\\nTHEIR PROGRESS. TlIE WAYMARKS OF THE MARINER\\nARE THE SUN BY DAY, AND THE MOON AND STARS BY\\nNIGHT; no hindred sliip answers hach its red-cross\\nsignal; hut there they float, the germ of a future\\nnation, upon the desert ivaters. Sailing a circuitous\\nroute, they did not reach the coast of America until\\nthe 13th of January, 1733, when they cast anchor\\nin Rebellion Roads, and furled their sails at last in\\nthe harbour of Charleston.\\nThe sails appear to have changed owners during\\nthe voyage. When it commenced, we are told they\\nbelonged to the ship; and now, at its end, to the\\npassengers.\\nThere is about this book a queer originality a\\ncharacteristic perfectly unique. What it states un-\\ntruly, is absurdly untrue; and even what it states\\ntruly, is absurdly true. Witness those milestones.\\nOne more specimen must suffice. The author\\nwishes to apprise us of the fact that in the first\\nSynagogue established in Savannah, religious service\\nwas performed in Hebrew. Two words express the\\nidea, but two words go but a small way to make\\nan octavo. Amplification is, therefore, as usual\\nresorted to and an inflated periphrasis is produced,\\nPage 87.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF GEORGIA. 15\\nextending over five lines. This, to be sure, does\\nnot increase the volume much but it increases it\\nfar more than two words woukl have done. And\\nthen the ocean is made up of drops.\\nTrue to their ancient faith, and zealous for the\\nworship of the God of Israel, they no sooner landed\\non our shores than they resolved to open a syna-\\ngogue, to which they gave the name of Mickva\\nIsrael. A room was obtained and fitted up for the\\npurpose Li this temporary liouse^ of God, divine\\nservice was regularly performed, and the great I\\nAM loas iDorsliipped in the same language in lohich\\nAbraham, Isaac a)id Jacob prayed lohlch ivas heard\\non /Sinai, and in the gorgeous Temple of Solomon and\\nin which the inspired men of God poured forth tlwir\\nsuhlime and far-seeing prophecies\\nWe meet frequently indeed, one can hardly open\\nthe book without finding such phrases as these\\nTheir icars were seldom fair-fought fields The\\nearth has been almost girdled with the lovefeasts of\\nhis disciples 1 1 a sort of girdle, by the way, some-\\nwhat more wonderful than even the celebrated cestus\\nof Venus Let us not spread on the grave page of\\nQuery what shores does the author mean The shores of Massa-\\nchusetts, or the shores of Geoi-gia? Pennsylvania has no shores.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2j- This sudden metamorphosis of a room into a house is certainly as\\nremarkable an event as any in the Hebrew history.\\nPages 368, 369. I Page 53. Page 342.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 OBSERVATIONS ON DR. STEVENS S\\nhistory the juvenile follies of those two noble States.\\nThis sj)reading of juvenile follies after the manner of\\na plaster, is rather a novel mode of treating the\\ngrave page of history; but it reminds us very plea-\\nsantly of the Doctor s original vocation or, as the\\nvulgar saying hath it, it smells of the shop. Before\\nmarriage great looseness of virtue prevailed. f Is\\nDoctor Stevens really ignorant, that a loose woman\\nis not a virtuous woman that looseness is the very\\nreverse of virtue\\nBut it would be tedious to detail the manifold\\nblunders of every kind which pervade the book\\nvulgar colloquialisms, such as, Where have they\\ngone J for wJdther\u00e2\u0080\u0094eYTOYS in grammar errors in\\nthe use of words. They are so frequent, that it is\\nscarcely hyperbolical to say, that to enumerate them\\nall would be nearly equivalent to reprinting the\\nbook.\\nWe are next to notice Doctor Stevens s misstate-\\nments, and mistakes in regard to facts some of them,\\nof common historical notoriety. A few examples\\nwill be sufficient and the inference from them seems\\nunavoidable. If an author misstates facts so noto-\\nrious as these facts which ought to be as familiar\\nto a man of letters as household Avords what\\nsecurity have we that his other assertions are not\\nPage 13ti. t Page 53. J Page 28.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF GEORGIA. 17\\nequally erroneous? and how is it possible to esteem\\nhis work as an authority\\nOn one of the first pages, under the title of\\nERRATA, the author exonerates the printer from all\\nmistakes affecting meaning, (except one, which we\\nhave not noticed,) thereby assuming for himself the\\nresponsibility for the statements in the text. We\\nmention this to prevent any suspicion of the errors\\nbeing typographical.\\nThe treaty of Utrecht, says Doctor Stevens,\\ninl711 !-j* There is many a little schoolgirl who\\ncould have told him that this famous treaty was\\nmade in 1713.\\nHe informs us that by the convention of the 14th\\nof January, 1739, between Great Britain and Spain,\\nit was declared with regard to the disputed terri-\\ntories of Great Britain and Spain, in Georgia, that\\nthings shall remain in the situation they are in at\\npresent, without increasing the fortifications there, or\\nmaking any new post. J Now the stipulation really\\nwas, that within six weeks two plenipotentiaries\\nfrom each side should meet at Madrid, to regulate\\nthe pretensions of the two Crowns, as to rights of\\nWe wish it to be distinctly understood, that we do not give a list of\\nerrors, but only a few specimens such as present themselves on a cursory\\nperusal. f Page 286. Page 160.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 OBSERVATIONS ON DK. STEVENS S\\ntrade, and as to the limits of Georgia and Florida;\\nthat their conferences should finish within eight\\nmonths; and that in the meantime no progress should\\nbe made in the fortifications of either province.\\nThis is clearly a very different view of the case\\nfrom that presented by Doctor Stevens; but the\\nconvention was concluded during the administration\\nof Walpole, whose pacific policy, strangely enough,\\ndoes not seem to meet with this Reverend person s\\napprobation. It is doubtless very interesting to the\\npublic to know that Doctor Stevens thinks Sir Robert\\nWalpole a splendid minisferial j)cii adox -f\\nDoctor Stevens speaks of the treaty of Seville as\\nhaving been concluded in 1730. J It was concluded\\nin 1729.\\nHe says that the forces of England under\\nVernon and Wentworth were aiming at the reduc-\\ntion of Havana., during the war with Spain. The\\nfact is, that they attacked Carthagena in 1741, and\\nlanded in Cuba, with a view of reducing /Santiago,\\nin July, 1742, but neither threatened nor attacked\\nHavana.\\nHe tells us that war was declared by Great\\nBritain against Spain, on the 22d of October,\\n1739. II It was declared on the 19th of October.\\nHe informs us that Oglethorpe was born on the\\nSee Mahon. Hist, of England, vol. ii. pp. 409, 410.\\nI Page 208. Page l- )9. Page IH] Page IGl", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF GEORGIA. 19\\n21st of December, at a country-seat bought by his\\nfather, Sir Theophilus, after a visit to the exiled\\nking, James the Second, at Saint Germains.* Now\\nJames, so far from being at Saint Germains he/ore the\\n21st of December, was at that time still in England,\\nat Rochester.\\nHe asserts, that on the committee appointed by the\\nHouse of Commons, in 1728, to inquire into the state\\nof the EngUsh gaols, were some of the first men in\\nEngland among them Admiral Vernon, and Field-\\nMarshal Wade. f Now Vernon was not an Admiral\\nuntil 1739, nor Wade a Field-Marshal until 1745.\\nHe says that Colonel Palmer and his troops were\\ndreadfully surprised at Fort Moosa, during the siege\\nof St. Augustine. J Mr. Spalding, whose authority is\\nconclusive on the subject, in his Life of Oglethorpe,\\nsajT^s expressly Tliey ivere not surjmsed\\nWe next meet with a most extraordinary statement\\nof a still more remarkable fact a fact, too, which has\\nhad the strange fortune of escaping not only the in-\\nvestigations of historians, but the observation of con-\\ntemporaries, to be brought to light in the year of our\\nLord 1847, in the History of Georgia, by the learned\\nresearches of the Reverend William Bacon Stevens,\\nM. D., Professor of Belles Lettres, Histori/(!), etc., in\\nPages 76, 77. f Page 60. Page 173.\\nCollections of the Geo. Hist. Society, vol. i. p. 2S1.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 OBSERVATIONS ON DR. STEVENS S\\ntlie University of Georgia since, emigrated home-\\nwards.\\nOglethorpe s first effort in tlie British Senate was\\nin 1723, against the motion for the banishment of\\nFrancis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. The hishoj),\\non the death of Queen Anne, had, in f\\\\dl canonicals,\\nand in the city of London, proclaimed Charles Stuart,\\nKing of Great Britain\\nIf this latter sentence is introduced in this con-\\nnexion for any purpose at all, it must be to assign a\\nreason for the Bishop s impeachment; to state the\\ncrime of which he was accused. In other words, the\\nauthor wishes us to believe, that a man who publicly,\\nin full canonicals, and in the city of London, pro-\\nclaimed the Pretender, King of Great Britain, in 1714,\\nwas not arraigned for such a glaring offence until\\n1723 nine years after iva rds this very man, too,\\nbeing allowed in the mean time to officiate conspicu-\\nously at the Coronation of George the First, and to\\nhold the distinguished stations of Bishop of Rochester\\nand Dean of Westminster unmolested\\nEvery one who has the slightest acquaintance with\\nthe history of those times, is aware that Atterbury\\nwas really charged with carrying on a traitorous\\nPage 82.\\nf As Dean of Westminster. See Lodge, Illust. Pers. folio, vol. iv. art.\\nAtterbury.", "height": "3309", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "observationsondo00dere_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP GEORGIA. 21\\ncorrespondence, in order to raise an insurrection in\\nthe kingdom, and to procure foreign Princes to in-\\nvade it.\\nBut further we are told in this astonishing para-\\ngraph that the Bishop proclaimed Charles Stuart,\\nKing of Great Britain Is it possible that a Pro-\\nfessor of Belles Lettres, and History, does not know\\nwhat it would disgrace any Fresliman to he ignorant\\nof that the Pretender s name was James and that\\nhis son, the young Pretender, with whom alone even\\nthe grossest carelessness could confound him, was not\\nborn till six years after this alleged proclamation of\\nAtterbury s\\nThis event, now first published to the world by\\nDoctor Stevens, never took i^lace We will however\\ngive, in the words of Lord Mahon, the report upon\\nwhich Doctor Stevens probably based his fabrication.\\nWe are, indeed, assured that Atterbury, immedi-\\nately on the Queen s demise, proposed to Bolinghrol-e\\nto ATTEMPT proclaiming James at Charing Cross and\\noffered himself to head the procession in his lawn\\nsleeves. 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STEVENS S\\nBut lest this should prove insufficient to convince\\nhis readers of the extent of his ignorance, he lugs in\\nthe unfortunate House of Stuart again a second time^\\nand succeeds, if possible, in outblundering himself.\\nOn the declaration of war, he writes, with\\nEngland by France, (March 4th, 1744,) and the\\nthreatened invasion of England b}^ a large force under\\nCount Saxe, for the purpose of enforcing the claims\\nto the throne of the Gliei-aUer de St. George, eldest son\\nof diaries Edimird die*\\nThus he makes a man his own son, or else his own\\ngrandfither\\nChevalier St. George was the incognito title of both\\nthe old Pretender, James, and his son, Charles Ed-\\nward, the young Pretender. 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And it would be al-\\nmost inexplicable to one who was not acquainted\\nwith this heterogeneous and grotesque medley of\\ngleanings a History in name, in reality a Common-\\nplace book.\\nWe have often met with ignorance but never be-\\nfore with ignorance that voluntarily obtruded itself\\nupon public notice, or that thrust forth its nakedness\\nwith such marvellous effrontery.\\nUjDon the whole, then, the review of Doctor Ste-\\nvens s work, leads we think to two inevitable con-\\nclusions\\nFirst. That he cannot write History.\\nSecond. 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