( 9' ) 



now negle(5ted. In this caftle the apart- 

 ments are flill fhewn, where Charles I 

 was confined, when he was carried from the 

 ifle of Wight ; and very miferable they are. 



On the batteries we faw an inftance of 



Hogarth's humour, when he was painter to 

 the ordinance. The carriages have all crowns 

 painted on them, with the king's initials. 

 Below one of them, painted exadtly in the 

 vulgar ftile of the reft, Hogarth has formally 



put the initials of his name. The form 



of this caftle at a diftance, fet off" by the 

 rocks of the ifland as a back ground, is not 

 unpi(5turefque. 



The Needles, which are of the fame tex- 

 ture of rock with the neighbouring cliffs of 

 the illand, feem to have been waihed from 

 them by the fea. A gradual change has 

 been obferved, even in the memory of man. 

 We may eafily imagine with what violence 

 a ftorm at fea pours in among thefe piles 

 of formidable rocks, when the fu6tion and 

 eddies of tides and currents make them dan- 

 gerous to approach almoft in the fereneft 

 weather. 



Befides 



