spot, and seized one of the smugglers, when a body of not less than two hundred armed smugglers rushed from behind the sand-hills, and commenced a fire on the Blockade, killing one and wounding another ; but they were ultimately driven off with the loss of their galley, carrying off, nevertheless, all their wounded .
" On another occasion, the date of which I have been unable to ascertain, four or five smugglers were killed whilst swimming the Military Canal at Pett horse-race, having missed the spot where it was fordable. I have been informed that on this occasion the smugglers were attacked in rear, as well as on both flanks, and that some of the younger men, notwithstanding the risk they ran, after depositing their loads on the land side of the canal, returned into the water to assist their older comrades.
" In February, 1827 , about twenty smugglers went down to the eastward of Fairlight. They wrested some muskets from the Blockademen, beat them with the butt ends, and ran one of them through with a bayonet. The smugglers retreated, leaving one dead ; another was found afterwards, having been apparently dropped by the smugglers ; a third, some distance on the way to Icklesham, the body scarcely cold ; the rest were carried off. It is said that one of the party carried one of his fellows on his back from Fairlight to Udimore, a distance of six miles."
THE FIGHT AT SIDLEY, &c.
"During the time of the , Coast-blockade, affrays between the smugglers and the Blockademen were frequent and bloody. Nearly the last of those blood sheddings took place,' says Mr. William Durrant Cooper, in Vol. X. of the Sussex Archaeological Collections ,' ' on January 3 , 1828 , near Bexhill.' I have had an opportunity of gathering some of the particulars -
