the village, keeping up a sort of running fight. He was then a young man about eighteen. Some of the villagers having shouted from their windows to the smugglers, that the Coast-blockade were close upon them , the latter (with oaths) threatened to shoot the gentleman alluded to. A wounded man and a cart-load of goods were taken into the inn yard.
"Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning in October, 1830, a boat came in close to the library at St. Leonards. The company, that had evidently been in waiting all the night, rushed to the beach, and told the preventive-man on duty, that they would not hurt him if he remained quiet. He fired his pistol, when they began to beat him, and would have severely injured him but for the interference of some gentlemen who were on the spot. One hundred and fifty casks of spirits were got away. The boat was abandoned.
" On the third of January, 1831 , on a fine moon-light night, either through some misunderstanding on the part of the smugglers, or through some information having been given, a serious affray took place near the Dripping Well, at Fairlight. Three of the company were shot, George Harrod (who was also run through with a bayonet), and William Cruttenden (Trucks). This latter individual was found the next morning in the New Barn Field, close by ; it was then a turnip field, and for a considerable distance round where the body was found, the tops were knocked to pieces, showing that the poor fellow must have died a terrible . death. The other person shot was a young man named ______ he was seriously wounded in the thigh, and my informant was close to him when this occurred. He was taken to a house near the Fish Ponds, and two medical gentlemen, Robert Ranking and Ross Chapman, Esqrs ., were sent for from Hast-
