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tltegale whicli prevailed during that 

 day and the preceding evening, and 

 was lying just beyond the breakers. 

 Five brave fellows of the above 

 place went off in a boat, though a 

 most tremendous surf, to a>sist the 

 crew in their endeavours to get the 

 vessel off, she being light. After 

 having cleared the breakers, and, as 

 they vainly hoped, surmounted all 

 their difficulties, whilst under tlie 

 bow of the vessel, a sea, iieavierthan 

 they had before experienced, struck 

 the boat, and in an instant turned 

 her bottom upwards. The specta- 

 tors on the bead) viewed with 

 painful solicitude the fate of the 

 poor sufferers. After watching for 

 a quarter of an hour the progiess 

 of ever}' wave, not a man could be 

 seen afloat. The boat, which had 

 been driven by the tide, by this 

 time approached the shore near 

 enough for the persons standing 

 thereon to seize hold of her ; while 

 they were employed in dragging 

 her out of the reach of the break- 

 ers, a sea struck her with such vio- 

 lence as to bilge in one of her sides, 

 from whence crept, uninjured, the 

 five men whose fate they were de- 

 ploring. They ascribed their truly 

 providential escape to the sudden- 

 ness with which the boat was cap- 

 sized, by which means not only 

 themselves were overwiielmed by 

 her, but a quantity of air was in- 

 cluded ; and by holding on the 

 scats, they were enabled to keep 

 their heads above water, and by 

 so doing respiration continued, 

 and their lives were preserved. 



20 The rev. Ebenezer Aldred, 

 a dissenting minister, from the 

 High Peak, in Derbyshire, appear- 

 ed in a boat upon the Thames, 

 dressed in a white linen robe, with 

 his long hair flowing over his 



shoulders, and announced that the 

 seven vials , mentioned in the book 

 of Revelations, were to be poured 

 out upon the city of London. 



22. Mr. Standen, who resides 

 near Hastings, in returning from 

 market, was stopped at Holling- 

 ton lane, about a quarter of a mile 

 from the town, by two soldiers of 

 the 16th dragoons, armed with pis- 

 tols. They demanded his money, 

 instantly knocking him from his 

 horse, wounded him severely in 

 the lace, and then robbed him of 

 his pocket-book containing 30/.; 

 and, alter much ill usuage, permit- 

 ted him to depart. Instead, how- 

 ever, of proceeding towards his 

 home, Mr, Standen returned by a 

 circuitous rout along the beach by 

 the sea side, into the town, and 

 gave the alarm at the principal 

 inns and pubhc-houses, before the 

 footpads could succeed in reaching 

 the town or their quarters un- 

 observed. Measures were imme- 

 diately taken by the commanding- 

 officer, to intercept the robbers on 

 their return to their quarters. On 

 being secured, the offenders were 

 taken before the magistrates, when it 

 was discovered that their clotheshad 

 been turned, and blood stains were 

 freshen tiie inside of their jackets. 

 Finding tl.e evidence so strong 

 against them, they confessed the 

 robbery, and stated that they had 

 concealed Mr. Standen's pocket- 

 book behind the shutters of a 

 blacksmith's shop, where it was 

 accordingly found, with its con- 

 tents. The prisoners were com- 

 mitted to Lewes gaol, for trial at 

 the assizes. 



24. The following is an extract 

 from the Nottingham Review of 

 Friday : — 



" It IS with much pain that we 



have 



