twenty-three tubs of spirits, one quarter keg, and two bags of tea. Some of the batsmen who had been engaged in the night's transaction had managed, after the goods had been seized, to make a circuit round nearly to the spot where they were being loaded in Joe's cart. At or near the spot there was a slight bend in the road, and Joe caught sight of one of the bats men looking round the bend in the hedge, and, rightly surmising that he was not alone, he signalled for him to come on. A body of batsmen immediately rushed round the corner, and drove off the Blockademen. Joe applied his whip to his horse, drove off at full speed, and did not draw rein till he reached Sedlescomb, where there was another horse and cart in waiting, in which the goods were safely carried to Rye. Joe was paid seven pounds for this smart transaction, and was kept at Sedlescomb, living in clover, for a week.
DERRICKING A COAST-BLOCKADEMAN UP THE CLIFF AT BEACHY-HEAD.
I do not know that I can do better than transcribe the account of this singular incident that I have found in " The Battle and the Breeze," a periodical published about the time. The writer was evidently belonging to the Coast-blockade, and betrays an animus against the smugglers not at all times justifiable ; however, as I happen to know some of the transactions which he -
