Extract of a Letter from Gosport, dated Sept. 25
‘Last week Mr. Gally, the Custom-house Officer, who was taken away in April last, by a Gang of Smugglers at Havant in this County, several of which are now in Newgate, was found buried in the Sand in Rake Forest; and the next Day the Body of Mr. Chartres, who gave Information of the Gang, was found in a Well in Lady Holt’s Park near Petersfield, without his Head, and several large Stones, Logs of Wood, &c. supposed to have been thrown down upon him. The Body of the former was so putrified, that he was known only by his Cloaths, &c.’
