I print five hundred copies, as in my proposals; whereof I have about three hundred already subscribed for; and, among my subscribers, fifteen or sixteen English Bishops, with some of Ireland.
"If you will please herewith to accept the tender of my most sincere respect and gratitude, you will thereby confer one further obligation, honored sir, on "Your most obedient and humble servant, "SAMUEL WESLEY." "To James Oglethorpe, Esq." It appears, from a list of subscriptions annexed to Mr.Wesley's _Dissertations on the Book of Job_, that General Oglethorpe took _seven_ copies of the work on large paper, which would amount to at least twenty pounds.
The elder son of the Rector, also, paid a tribute of respect to the General; and this in harmonious and polished verses; in which, however, he indulged, too freely, the poetic license in highly wrought description of the settlement of Georgia, and of the climate and productions of the region.[1] [Footnote 1: GEORGIA, _a Poem_; TOMO CHICHI, _an Ode; and a copy of Verses on_ Mr.Oglethorpe's _Second Voyage to Georgia_.

These were beautifully printed, in a large type, on nineteen folio pages.

They were ascribed to SAMUEL WESLEY, as their author, in the tract entitled "_True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia," by P.
Telfair and others_.

Charlestown, S.C.1741, page xi.

of the Preface.] As our narrative is brought near to the period when the General is about to return thither, it may be pertinent to introduce a short extract, in which the poet addresses the new settlers, eagerly expecting his arrival.
"See once again, see on your shores descend Your generous leader, your unwearied friend! No storm or chance his vessel thither drives, No! to secure and bless you, he arrives.
To Heaven the praise,--and thanks to him repay, And let remotest times respect the day.
He comes, whose life, while absent from your view, Was one continued ministry for you; For you he laid out all his pains and art, Won every will, and softened every heart.
With what paternal joy shall he relate How views the mother Isle your little State; How aids the Senate, how the nation loves, How GEORGE protects, and CAROLINE approves!-- A thousand pleasures crowd into his breast, But one, one mighty thought absorbs the rest, 'And give me, Heaven, to see, (the Patriot cries), Another Britain in the desert rise!'".