Philip John Ouless (St. Helier 1817-1885)

"The sun had not long sunk beneath the horizon, when long before the appointed signal was given, the whole of St Aubin's Bay glowed with the bonfires, lighted on the heights, and the sparkling illumination of the villas on the rising slopes. At each extremity of the Bay of St Helier, and St Aubin, the latter once it's rival in wealth and commerce, exhibited one continuous blaze of resplendent light. The whole presented a spectacle never surpassed, and perhaps never equalled in magnificence and effect. As soon as it was dusk the signal shrouds at Fort Regent twinkled with lights and from the Royal Squadron, which was distinguishable afar off, in the roads, the aspect of the bay, and a myriad of windows glittering with lights, must have been beautiful in the extreme."