The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-08 00:00:00

Aitil AY AT DEAL.

he, •
.
Practice of SMUGGLING 11.15 - so
txteil
iro‘ fiVes with sod.. (larin!, simit
"eal'tied its 'vicinity, and has at, lent=' h le,l to
open
and ferocious a :violat:ion of the LAW, that
calls for tome vigCrolis ihterliO4i;ion on the
Pert ()1 Governtneot. The' ilotortis resfstance
4:64 took place on the `27tli ult: has induced us
vestigate the whole transaction', and we can
ep.nfidently assure our R M
eaders Chat the ((owing
l
111
be found an autitentie statenient Of What oc-
%red

l' NAL, JAN. 6.-01 Saturday the 27th nit. the
itil4tYur And Magistrates (it this place committed ro •
,Set 061 two midshipn,eu of his Ntoj,'St N's ship he
oillern, stationed on this coaist tC, prevent smug-
cltif: "der Lord ELLENBc)itOUGH'S Act, on a
)11,-he,)l stabbing, maining, and wounding two
,t
tit
r
34ns in the sitet. Mr. Jonas, the active
otge
the•t:Olici(or to the Admiralty, and one
the
Solicitors to the Custom., it tended the ex -
41
Inatinu of the: patties, and Sttattgly pressed the
tqa6trates to admit the Office!, to bail, offering
titrnve. (bat they had been, in the ex,ention of
littlrd"ty, knocked And assaile,i by a party
'"igglvrs, *lO had not had recourse to their
, tOI they were driven .to the necessity of
ihttn ti;eil ovendelen
„ce,-and for self-pre-
Viinn. The Magistrates, howerer, refused to
o(tellt them. In consequence of which a writ
l'iteas Corpus has been issued by one of the
uvoLl• LOS (If .the C:Otut King's 13ruch, anti the
Gentleuiei, will be brought before him in
Saturnav next, when there is little
hut dill, beanniediately t4ischarged
11.1; and Go mo willvenie, doubtless prosecute
ich_of the smil,eotit oho ti,e Officers,
tr be identified Our H. corner was in the
a.3w"-, but did not make Ids apinearatice at the ex-
-'l"nicion. Captain :\l'Cut.t.ocK, who commands
Berern, is a 1110 st vigilant Officer, and has
atiu't ~gin once been tired at by die Smugglers
lie lids been walking in the streets of the
unvi,

The following Letter from Deal appeared in
71' Public Ledger of Monday last :
Seeing to a London Paper of last week a
vBrtial statement respecting a late afriir at this
Pl"c", countered with somLli,g, and which may
/-141/11 to Pr( je&ce the Public against the Naval
‘`tiiters employed upon this station, for its sup-
-11""lion ; I beg you will cause the following N.ar-
-I.4tive to be inserted in a respectable Daily Paper,
hit nn the autheet Icily of %• hick you may rely
"h the mos! perfect confidence ; it being related
I"
the by ..4entlein.;in who was present at the
Court-h»11
at ti ,e several examivarioos w)tich
1"e taken place *
i\i" It appeared by the te,ttimony, on oath, of Capt,
e,`Cuil,ek, bi 9 Majesty's ship Severn, that in
'..k.;ll3"l‘,eece of information that smuggled goods
Aiiteict.7,ol" be tetnovea on Saturday week front
-t"liset to some other part cif the town,' he
er—e(l the two Naval Officer,: (now io go,;1) In
h~t()11 fie loolt•out in that part of the town ;
e ' Iletween six and seven o'clock the same
of they detected several persons in the act
ilt,rt"hoing the smuggled goods front Middle-
'stl
t;' arid immediately seized pat t of them on
t'rmats; another stb"ggicr' "ail"
Wurtl'ingtno
b"""1), was chased by one of the Officers
""wee.-setett (alter they had beets violently
4'i:4l,SartrOffi-
certell by some of the smugglers, and re-
ed blows on the head). Here the O-
!-•„ e"
attempted to secure Voithington, tvlien a
li‘c,"ale took place nearly opposite the house of
Iggolden, the Mayor. In the „Officer's re-
"tltante to the violence and tht eats he received,
.444 .in his own defence, a pistol was discharged,
vltitieb alightly wounded a servant of Lady Har-
ieY, not, it appears, implicated. This was pure-
Y accidental. In the course of the seuflieWorth-
llYgtoo was wounded in the head, not dangerous-
tool most certainly caused by Isis own resist-
ti"ee and violence,w otor the surrounding gang soon
tltrliOered the Officer them into and forced the into a
siV
111, where they were seemed, and, by order of
taken to the goal.
At the examinaticm, Copt. M'Collock clearly
uated his ()rulers, and urged th:tt the N.Aval Gen-
oeUten were in the due execution of then), and in
L•it Icgal exercise of their -authotity rec(ived freim
tiut ill which they were opposed by Worthing-
arl:l his party, and the boiffie and its eonse-
eettces tct re occasioned thereby. These Officers,
th :ever. having no evidence of the facts but
eit 't'a'rt statement, and' the persons on the side
of the „et , • . 'or, .
lei, I uellig on oat t .al
tlen,after several examioations, committed
(reffor „,„!er Lord Ellenborough's Act
its%
, "g to admit them to bail), to be tried ou a
"aPl(al charge.
r there can be no doubt in the mind of every
rn:,n, who beard the evidence in Court,
a " these Naval Offices s were grossly resisted
11(1 assaulted in the discharge of their duty; but
niete are tew persons here who dare to declare
tisieuly and unreservedly any circumitances, how-
al* glaring and disgraceful, which so frequently
tear here, connected with smuggling transac-
tions.
'` The Solicitors of Government were present,
414 urged eversy thing they could for bail, butt in
):1"----it is to be hoped, however, that by smite
• tigi4 process, a hearing may take place before a
O'er Authority."
In addition to the preceding; statements, for the
Itathenticity of the first of which we can vouch,
1411(1 the second of which we believe to be correct,
ve subjoin the following narrative 'from a roost
r
e
spectable person who was present at the exami-
81.juris at Deal :
Ti
ecl sm„ -
gg yrs of Deal having been prevent-
n !atoning contraband goods in that place,
h j:`he sY”ern of prevention established in the
4_4... wont-hood, had lately been obliged to bring
trznilts and other run articles overland, informa-
APC ofIt h.llllll. been received by Ca p1:111)
Opt 111()Ck;WII0 on the 27th ult. directed the Naval
•4u. cerl stationed in the town of Deal to cuclea-