Oglethorpe arrives in England--Trustees petition the King for military aid to the new Colony--A regiment granted--Oglethorpe appointed Commander in Chief of South Carolina and Georgia--Part of the regiment sent out--Oglethorpe embarks for Georgia the third time--Remainder of the regiment arrive--And two companies from Gibraltar--Prospect of war with Spain--Military preparations at St. Augustine--Oglethorpe makes arrangements for defence--Treason in the Camp--Mutiny, and personal assault on the General, CHAPTER XII. Oglethorpe visits Savannah--Troubles there--Causton, the store-keeper, displaced--Oglethorpe holds a conference with a deputation of Indians--Town-meeting called, and endeavors used to quiet discontents--Goes back to Frederica, but obliged to renew his visit to Savannah, CHAPTER XIII. Oglethorpe goes to Charlestown, South Carolina, to open his Commission--Comes back to Savannah--Gives encouragement to the Planters--Returns to Frederica--Excursion to Coweta--Forms a Treaty with the Upper Creeks--Receives at Augusta a delegation of the Chickasaws and Cherokees, who complain of having been poisoned by the Traders--On his return to Savannah is informed of Spanish aggressions, and is authorized to make reprisals, CHAPTER XIV. Oglethorpe addresses a letter to Lieutenant-Governor Bull, suggesting an expedition against St. Augustine--Follows this, by application in person--Promised assistance, and cooperation--Returns to Frederica--Collects his forces--Passes over to Florida--Takes several Spanish forts--Is joined by the Carolinian troops--The enemy receive supplies--Oglethorpe changes the siege into a blockade--Takes possession of Anastasia Island--Colonel Palmer and his men surprised and cut to pieces--Spanish cruelties--English fleet quit the station--Siege raised, and Oglethorpe returns to Frederica, CHAPTER XV. Oglethorpe pays particular attention to internal Improvements--Meets with many annoyances--The Creeks, under Toonahowi, make an incursion into Florida--The Spanish form a design upon Georgia--Some of their fleet appear on the coast--Oglethorpe prepares for defence--Applies to South Carolina for assistance--Spaniards attack Fort William--Dangerous situation of Oglethorpe--Spanish fleet enter the harbor and land on St. Simons--In three successive engagements they are defeated--A successful stratagem--Enemy defeated at Bloody Marsh--Retire and attack Fort William, which is bravely defended by Ensign Stewart--Spanish forces, repulsed in all their assaults, abandon the invasion in dismay, and return to St. Augustine and to Cuba, CHAPTER XVI.