26 Mr. Sutherland’s Account of Jersey. 
ed as cicerone, and, among other places, introduced me into a small 
circular apartment, forming one of the suite appropriated to oificers, 
which he said had been the habitation of Charles II. when a wan- 
derer. This prince, when his unfortunate father fell into the 
hands of the regicidal party, found a loyal welcome in Jersey. 
Here he was recognized as king, when in England they sought his 
blood: here he remained in security, when his father-land afforded 
him no asylum. During his lonely sojourn in this remote portion 
of his hereditary dominions, he is said to have employed himself in 
making a survey and delineating a map of the island. The na- 
tives, flattered by the confidence he reposed in them, and justly 
proud of nine centuries of unblemished loyalty to the throne of 
Great Britain, still refer to his residence as a memorable event ; 
and in no other part of the British dominions, is the memory of 
the ‘ merry monarch’ more respected. When Cromwell, after the 
disastrous issue of the battle of Worcester, sent an expedition, 
under Admiral Blake, to reduce the island, it made a most gallant 
and protracted defence; and had not circumstances conspired to 
favour the invaders, their victory would have been dearly pur- 
chased. If we view Charles only as a crowned king, his character 
inspires sentiments that point him out as utterly unworthy of the 
blind but generous devotion of his adherents ; but as a wanderer, 
proscribed by his regicidal subjects, and driven, like a weed on the 
ocean, from shore to shore, he excites that sympathy which unfor- 
tunate royalty always claims. While standing at the window from 
whence he had often surveyed the rock-strewn channel that di- 
vided him from France, the hoary sensualist, the ingrate monarch, 
was forgotten, and I remembered only the generous and kingly- 
hearted prince, who had often scarcely a roof to shelter him. 
Mont Orgueil, in point of historical association, is by far the most 
interesting spot in Jersey. A part of the fortifications, according 
to tradition, are coeval with Cesar’s incursions into Gaul ; and the 
islanders hold it famous in their oldest story, and of antiquity be- 
yond record. In 1374, the celebrated Constable du Guesclin pass- 
ed over from Bretagne at the head of a large army, including some 
of the bravest knights of France, and encamped before this for- 
tress, then called Gouray Castle, into which the principal inhabi- 
tants had retired for safety ; but after a siege of several months, 
he was obliged to draw off his forces in despair, and quit the is- 
land. Henry V. added much to the strength and beauty of Gou- 
ray,—made it a depot of arms, and conferred on it the proud name 
of Mont Orgueil. About 1461, Nanfant, the governor, a depen- 
dent of Henry VI. was prevailed upon, by an order of Queen Mar- 
garet, to surrender it to Surdeval, a Frenchman, agent of Peter de 
Brezé, Count of Maulevrier; but though de Brezé kept posses- 
sion of it for several years, the natives, under the command of Phi- 
lip de Carteret, seigneur of St. Ouen, a family long illustrious in 
the Jersey annals, prevented him from completely subjugating the 
island. Sir Richard Harliston, vice-admiral of England, after- 
