APPENDIX C. The following are the names of the more prominent Guernseymen since 1650: Sir Edmund Andros, Colonial Governor of New York and Virginia, etc. Maj. Gen. Sir Isaac Brock. Daniel de Lisle Brock, Bailiff. Col. Saumarez Brock, Knight of Hanover. Mrs. Carey Brock, Author. Sir Octavius Carey. Sir Stafford Carey, Jurist. Rev. Peter Paul Dobree, Scholar. Dr. Hoskins, Author. Sir Jno. Jeremie, Governor of Sierra Leone. Sir Edgar MacCulloch, Bailiff. Georges Metevier, Author. Osmond de B. Priaulx, Author. Maj-Gen. Le Marchant. Col. H. Le Mesurier. Admiral Lord Saumerez. Gen. Sir Thomas de Sausmarez, Gen. Sir George Smith. Charles de Jersey, Jurist, and Procureur du Roi. FINIS. WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. "THE AMERICAN CRISIS, OR PAGES FROM THE NOTE BOOK OF A (FOREIGN) STATE AGENT DURING THE CIVIL WAR." BY JOHN LEWIS PEYTON, Bachelor of Law, University of Virginia, Corresponding member of the Virginia and Wisconsin Historical Societies, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, etc., etc., in two vols. 8 vo., London, 1866, Saunders, Otley & Co., Brooke St, West. NOTICES OF THE PRESS. "Here we pause reluctantly; the extreme interest we take in the political portion of Col. Peyton's most valuable and instructive work, has induced us to discuss somewhat at large what we may venture to entitle 'Sentiments proper to the present Crisis,' and that with reference as well to England as to America. It is not, however, to the statesman or historian alone that these volumes will be interesting. Their author has mingled largely in the best society on either side of the Atlantic; public and private life in both hemispheres, with their leading warriors, orators, statesmen, artists and men of letters, have come as a matter of course under his notice,.and are sketched ably by his graphic pen; he is in turn a Hogarth and a Watteau, as eccentricities and absurdities, graces and amenities are to be delineated. Nor is graver information wanting; his work is replete with historical anecdotes, valuable statistics and sound and apposite reflections upon subjects of contemporary or social interest."-British Press. "We have seen no work upon the American Civil War, more entertaining and thoroughly readable than that by Colonel Peyton, the style of which is terse and vigorous."-London Cosmopolitan. "Some of the most interesting portions of these charming volumes contain a summary of Col. Peyton's experiences, as well in the political, as in the literary worlds. His sketches are graphic, and beyond all controversy, life-like. We commend these volumes cordially and conscientiously to perusal, and we err if their circulation be not extensive. Their author was, we believe, some two or three years ago, resident for a little while amongst us, and has since been for a longer season domesticated in Jersey. It is not improbable that he may, ere long, once more be a visitor to the Channel Islands, and in that case we are sure that we may promise him for ourselves, and equally confident that we may prognosticate for him from our neighbors, a very hearty welcome. What Sidney Smith called 'stress of politics,' has driven many an honored exile for freedom or for conscience sake, upon our shores, but surely none more worthy of our esteem than this intelligent and gallant gentleman of whom-his enemies themselves being judges-the very worst that can be said must be 'Victrix causa Dies placuit, victa Peytoni."- Guernsey Star. Colonel Peyton's book is a half narrative of his reminiscences of the Great Civil War, or rather of his personal intercourse with the chief actors, both military and political, and half a description of his experiences in England and his impressions of English society. He exhibits considerable skill in blending his adverse feeling towards Jefferson Davis (whom he regards as a commonplace politician and not a genius at all) with the necessary amount of attachment for the Confederate cause. Some of the chapters which he devotes to his personal observations while in this country, will be read with interest, and portions of them with amusement. Of course he does not like Mr. Cobden or Mr. Bright. Of Lord Russell's appearance and manner he speaks with contempt which is not wholly unmerited, but ill-becomes a panegyrist of Mr. Alexander Stephens, of whose outer man, he has given the most unflattering of descriptions. But he is at all events impartial in his satirical judgments. When he presents what is on the whole a very uncomplimentary portrait of Mr. Roebuck, he is perhaps more true to life, but he makes a poor return for much zealous service." -London Daily Star. "This subject is unrivalled in importance to Americans, and a very arduous one with which to deal; the interests involved are so manifold, and the questions connected with it are so complicated that it requires a master mind to do them justice. Col. Peyton has taken very elevated views of all these great questions. We have rarely met with a writer who combines so much impressive earnestness with so much sound sense and masculine depth of thought." -London Gazette. "The American Crisis is a work of great interest, written in a inost spirited and masterly style."— Thanet Advertiser. (England.) "The American Crisis is a highly entertaining work, and one in which the reader's interest will seldom or ever flag. Many of the sketches are hit off with much skill and effect."-Herald. "The earlier portions of Colonel Peyton's work draws a lively picture of the feelings which prevailed in the South, and especially in Virginia, during the first month of the war. The sanguine advocates of Secession were full of hope and animation, predicting a speedy triumph for their cause, which should force Massachusetts itself to return all fugitive slaves, and place the prosperity of New England at the mercy of the Southern Confederacy. Colonel Peyton's second volume is devoted, for the most part, to life in England. He gives us particulars about Hotels and Lodging-houses, describes our railway management and railway carriages; sketches some of our great men; tells us about our dinners, our evening parties, our country houses, and our manner of living in them; in point of fact, is communicative to Englishmen; and the other, on England, for the use of Americans. But we can imagine many reasons which may have made it more convenient to treat together the two countries which have been connected by his own experience. He is not at all a fatiguing writer to follow; we may read with tolerable care what he has to tell us about America, and may then proceed with undiminished energy to glance at his remarks on a subject which, after all, has an interest for most of us-ourselves."-The Guardian. "Full of spirited sketches and interesting descriptions."— The Month. English Magazine of the Catholics. "The work contains some admirable sketches of distinguished Southern leaders, among them, President Davis, Secretary of State, Hunter; Sec'ys of Navy and War, Mallory and Benjamin; Gen's Lee, Johnston, Presston, and others, and of such Federalists as President Lincoln, V. P. Johnson, Gen. B. F. Butler, Parson Brownlow, etc. They are original and striking in style, showing very great discrimination and acuteness."- The Standard. "It is curious to see with what contempt this gentleman of high birth and solid position, looks down on the mushroom leaders of Secession. Most of these men are sketched by Colonel Peyton in sharp and biting acid."-Hepworth Dixon, in the London Athe пеит. "These volumes are compiled from notes of the author, who was an agent in Europe from one of the late Confederate States. The incidents commence from the outbreak of the war and there are numerous authentic facts and data given, which will throw light upon many circumstances connected with the long struggle between the Northern and Southern States. The description of scenes visited, the reflections on social subjects and the statements connected with the secret history of the war, acquired by the author in his official capacity, are of the highest interest and importance." The London Sunday Observer. "The American Crisis rises to the rank of a voluminous State paper. Colonel Peyton's work is destined, we believe, to be the text book for posterity, as far as regards the political questions opened up by this Civil war, the most gigantic conflict the world has ever witnessed. The author gives very spirited sketches of the prepa rations for the fight, and the interest taken in them by the veterans of the South. Throughout he proves his sound common sense and perfect mastery over the difficult science of political economy. Colonel Peyton has told the history of the American Civil war, its commencement, progress, and ultimate close, with precision, and with considerable historic care. He has woven with the main thread of his story, too, so many strands of minor interest, so many sketches, and so many glances at English and American domestic and country life, that each succeeding year cannot fail to add to its value as a photograph of its own times."--Jersey Express. "The book impresses us like the animated conversation of an intelligent and philosophic traveler, a man of cosmopolitan tastes and catholic views, not writing so much as talking of that he has observed and very entertainingly and instructively."-The Monthly Journal. "This sprightly, chatty, interesting volume, from the facile pen of Colonel Peyton, shows how an exiled Virginian is spending his time abroad in contributing to a better knowledge of our people and country among the English, while he furnishes delightful reading to countrymen at home. The free, easy, off hand style of the volume, cannot fail to entice the reader to the end of the work, while it gives him glimpses "behind the scenes," which will often amuse, sometimes startle, and occasionally provoke him.”— The Richmond (Va.) Whig. "In these two handsome volumes the author presents a candid, interesting, and valuable series of sketches of men, events, etc., at the commencement of the war of 1861. He enters, in the first chapter of his work, at considerable length into the question, not so much of the right of secession as of its feasibility and desirability at that time. Upon these points there will always exist many modifications of opinion even in the South, and it is only necessary to say here that, accepting a mission from North Carolina as State agent in the interest of the Confederacy, the author proceeded through the blockade of Charleston, S. C., in the C. S., man of war, Nashville, to England, stopping on his way at the Bermudas, and in London found himself thrown in familiar contact with other Southern Commissioners, and English sympathizers of rank and influence. The reader will find the work very entertaining. The views and comments of Col. Peyton are those of a |