knew of the matter, and to ascertain if he could prove the identity of Diamond's person.
Accordingly on Sunday, the 14th of February, 1748, they set out on horseback, for Chichester, and, passing through Havant, they called on an acquaintance of Chater's, and told him where they were going ; he informed them that Major Battin was at East Marden near Chichester, and directed them to go by Stan stead, near Rowland's Castle. Pursuing their journey, they called at the New Inn, at Leigh, and asking the nearest way, they saw George Austin and Thomas Austin, two brothers, and their brother-in-law Mr. Jenkes, and as they were going the same way, they said they would show them, and they accordingly set out together, all being on horseback.
About twelve at noon, they arrived at the White Hart, at Rowland's Castle, a house kept by one Eliza beth Payne, a widow who had two sons, both smugglers, but who followed the occupation of blacksmiths in the same village. Mrs. Payne, suspecting that the journey of Galley and Chater boded no good to the smugglers, sent one of her sons for William Jackson and William Carter, two smugglers, who lived near her house. While her son was gone, Galley and Chater wished to be going, and asked for their horses ; Mrs. Payne, to detain them, said the man who had the key of the stable was out. Jackson and Carter soon came in, and Mrs. Payne communicated to them her -
