fourteen gun-shot wounds in different parts of his body. To the utter discomfiture of the fair traders, however, the lieutenant recovered, was promoted and pensioned by the Admiralty, and astonished the inhabitants of Folkestone by appearing at the theatre attired in his uniform as a commander ; since which he has held superintendence of the Coast-guard at Hastings for three years, without encountering any further adventure worthy of notice."
During Commander Peat's residence at Rocklands, near Hastings, the following incident took place. A cargo of goods had been landed near Ecclesbourne watch-house, at a little distance eastward of Hastings, and worked up over the cliff by means of rope ladders at an immense trouble, under the very noses, as it were, of the Coast-guard. A dog belonging to one of the officers, and which generally accompanied him in his nightly rounds, barked violently at the top of the cliff, immediately over the spot where the smugglers were waiting on a ledge of rock for a favourable opportunity of getting over the summit of the cliff : the officer called the dog off, and upbraided him for being continually " barking at the rabbits." All this was heard by the smugglers as they lay in their place of concealment. After a while they got the goods away to a field not more than one hundred yards from the commander's residence, and here, lying in a hollow -
