He had already, it is reported on the authority of well-supported tradition, made a voyage across the Atlantic to Breda, where Charles II.

was then in exile, and offered to erect his standard in Virginia, and proclaim him king there.

This proposition the young monarch declined, shrinking, with excellent good sense, from a renewal, under less favorable circumstances, of the struggle which terminated at Worcester.

Lee was, therefore, compelled to return without having succeeded in his enterprise; but he had made, it seems, a very strong impression in favor of Virginia upon the somewhat frivolous young monarch.

When he came to his throne again, Charles II.