>From Public Advertiser ( London, England ), Wednesday, August 15, 1759; Issue 7730. On Thursday last in the Afternoon, Thomas ANSELL , a noted Smuggler, known by the Name of Surry Tom , was executed at Horsham in Sussex, pursuant to his Sentence at the Assizes held at Lewes for that County, for being concerned with other Smugglers in shooting Thomas COLE , a Dragoon, near Elmer, in the Year 1757. The Deceased, and other Dragoons, was assisting the Custom-House Officers in hindering Smugglers from carrying off a large Quantity of Tea, etc., which they had landed out of a Cutter from Bologne, on which the Smugglers fired, and shot COLE dead on the Spot, and wounded several others; and for this Fact two of the Gang were executed, and hung in Chains last August. ANSELL declared that he was not the Man who fired off the Blunderbuss, that Day. He was a stout bold Man, and died with great Resolution, but very penitent. There was the greatest Concourse of People at the Gallows that was ever known, to whom he spoke for about a Quarter of an Hour, and said Women and excessive Drinking had brought him to this untimely End. After Execution his Body was delivered to the Surgeons to be dissected and anatomized.