everyone at defiance, and awing all the quiet inhabtants. They established warehouses and vaults in many districts for the reception of their goods, and built large houses at Seacock's Heath,[1] in Etchingham (built by the well-known smuggler, Arthur Gray, and called Gray's Folly) , at Pix Hill, and the Four Throws Hawkhurst, at Goudhurst, and elsewhere, with the profits of their trade."
Of the " Hawkhurst Gang," I make out that twenty two suffered the extreme penalty of the law for their misdeeds ; many of the bodies were hung in chains, and this fact shows in a somewhat painful manner, the power, if not the majesty of the law.
On the banks of the Thames, on salient points of the coast, particularly that of Sussex, these remnants were to be seen, placed there as a warning to those who might be disposed to resort to unlawful practices.
Happily this state of things is passed away. Smugglers and smuggling are almost things of the past, and we may fairly hope that the more enlightened the policy pursued by our legislators, the less opportunity will there be for the questionable pursuits that I have endeavoured faithfully but imperfectly to portray.
- ↑ This has recently been pulled down by Mr. Goschen.
