MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION OF HASTINGS IN 1830.
The following is a copy of a document some unknown friend sent to me :
Mayor : Charles Steevens Crouch.
Deputy-Mayor : Frederick North.
Jurats
Edward Milward
David Gill.
John Goldsworthy Shorter
Walter Crouch
John Williams Junr.
John Wiliams
William Scrivens
John Hannay
Freemen :
Revd. D. Coppard
Edward Evitt
Thomas Morfee, Senr.
James Crouch
Richard Diplock
John Phillips
George Kent
John Hide
John Diplock
Edward Ball
Edward Kent
John G. Shorter, Junr.
John Williams, Junr.
William Ball
Nathaniel Crouch
Thomas Foster
George Scrivens
Richard Ball
James Patrick Murray
John Pollard Crouch
Thomas Fautley Bossom
Thomas Morfee, Junr.
Henry Williams
William Ellis
James Winter
William Standen
William Phillips
Jas. Edwd. Ferguson Murray
The one and only Freeman at the present time is Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet, who received the Freedom at the hands of the then Mayor, Councillor Arthur Blackman, J. P., on the 30th of July, 1919, amidst a scene of enthusiasm which will be long remembered by those who witnessed the quaint and memorable ceremony.
THE EMPRESS EUGENE.
The name by which she was most generally referred to, and who died on July nth, 1920, aged 94, was the widow of the late Napoleon III, and the last Empress of the French. Her death recalls the fact that two days after the French Revolution she had to make her escape from France and it so happened she was assisted by an Englishman named Colonel Sir John Burgoyne, who brought her and her young son in his Yacht the Gazelle, and landed her on the beach at Hastings to find asylum in England. At the time this occurred I was connected with the "Hastings Observer," and as a notetaker was soon at the scene, but found that the Empress and her son had repaired to the Royal Marine -
