PRIOR, in _The Life of Goldsmith_, page 457, expressly says that Oglethorpe, "_after being educated at Oxford_, served under Prince Eugene against the Turks."[1] [Footnote 1: About this time he presented a manuscript French paraphrase of the Bible, in two folio volumes, finely illuminated, to the library of Corpus Christi College in Oxford. "The gift of James Oglethorpe, Esq., Member of Parliament." GUTCH's _Appendix to Wood's History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford_.] Again, CROKER has a long note upon a passage in Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, II. p. 173, to invalidate a narative of Oglethorpe's respecting a writing of Colonel Sir Thomas Prendergast, who was killed at the battle of Malplaquet, on the 31st of August, 1709, which thus concludes: "At the battle of Malplaquet, Oglethorpe was _only eleven years old_. Is it likely that Oglethorpe, at the age of _eleven years_, was present at Pope's interview with Colonel Cecil? And, even if he were, what credit is to be given to the recollections, after the lapse of sixty-three years, of what a boy of _eleven_ heard?"[1] [Footnote 1: CROKER means that the time when Oglethorpe told the story to Dr. Johnson was _sixty-three_ years after the battle of Malplaquet, when the event referred to took place.] In reply to this, I would observe, that it is not even probable, as this statement would imply, that the interview of Pope with Colonel Cecil was directly after the battle. There might have been intervening years. Moreover, Croker goes upon the presumption that the birth of Oglethorpe was in 1698. Now, to assign his birth to that year would make him only _eighty-seven years_ old when he died; but Dr. Lettsom, in "a letter on prisons," in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, Vol. LXXI. p. 21, has this remark: "I spent an evening, which agreeably continued till two o'clock in the morning, with the late General Oglethorpe, when this veteran was in the _ninety-sixth_ year of his age; who told me, that he planted Georgia chiefly from prisons." And Hannah More writes of being in company with him when he was _much above ninety years_ of age. He was, therefore, born before 1698. And, finally, the record of his admission into Corpus Christi College, at Oxford, decides the matter beyond all controversy; and, by certifying his age to be _sixteen_, proves that he was born in _sixteen hundred and eighty-eight_. For the _month_ and _day_, I receive the testimony of William Stephens, Esq., Secretary for the affairs of the Trustees in Georgia, in the first volume of his Journal. On Thursday, December, 21st, [1738,] he makes this record.