1785, he went by sea to the Mediterranean, and spent upwards of a
year in visiting Spain, Malta, Sicily, Italy, Switzerland, and France.
In 1798, he was elected jurat of the Royal Court; and the greater part,
if not the whole, of the public documents of that body, were from that
period written by him. In 1821, he obtained the high and responsible
appointment of bailiff, or chief magistrate of Guernsey.

"It has been truly said that the history of Guernsey, for the last fifty
years, was, in fact, the history of Daniel De Lisle Brock. So
exclusively has the better part of Mr. Brock's life been devoted to the
service of his country--so completely have his affections been wrapped
up in her welfare--so ardently, so zealously, and so unceasingly has he
laboured to promote her prosperity and to protect her privileges--and so
intimately has he been connected with all the important occurrences of
the period alluded to--that in reading the history of the island, we
read the history of this the most able and devoted of its friends."

Between the years 1804 and 1810, Mr. Brock was deputed by the States and
Royal Court of Guernsey no less than four times, as their representative
to government, in matters connected with the trade and privileges of the
island; and he also went once to Jersey, to confer with the Royal Court
there on the same subject. In these missions, Mr. Brock distinguished
himself by his luminous and argumentative papers,[161] and the authority
of the Royal Court was happily preserved intact by his representations
and unremitting exertions.

"In 1821, an act of parliament having been passed prohibiting the
importation of foreign corn into the Channel Islands, whenever its entry
for consumption was prohibited in England, to wit, until it reached the
price of 80s. per quarter, Mr. Brock was again deputed to London to
contend against a measure fraught with such fatal consequences to the
islands, and at the same time to obtain some modifications in the
navigation laws. Mr. Brock, who was essentially assisted in this
business by Mr. James Carey, jurat, succeeded in both these objects. The
obnoxious corn law was repealed so far as the Channel Islands were
concerned, and some important privileges conceded to their trade and
navigation, especially in granting them free intercourse with the
British colonies, and the American continent and islands. So highly were
these last services appreciated, that when Mr. Brock returned