"Whereas we are credibly informed, that many of our poor subjects are, through misfortunes and want of employment, reduced to great necessity, insomuch as by their labor they are not able to provide a maintenance for themselves and families; and if they had means to defray their charges of passage, and other expences, incident to new settlements, they would be glad to settle in any of our provinces in America where by cultivating the lands, at present waste and desolate, they might not only gain a comfortable subsistence for themselves and families, but also strengthen our colonies and increase the trade, navigation and wealth of these our realms."
- from the Charter of Georgia, 1732
Based on the passage, who is the King of England most likely addressing in the charter?

A) the poor and indebted citizens of England
B) slaves recently imported into the New World
C) young English men unable to find steady work
D) former land owners who recently lost their property in the American Revolution