ch
an appointment above all others."

Soon afterwards, the cutter _Wickham_ was launched, and Mr. Fullarton
obtained his commission as captain, the mate being Mr. Donald
Fullarton, and most of the crew Arran men.[18]

FOOTNOTES:

[11] The use of the petticoat as a seaman's article of attire dates
back to the time of Chaucer:

"A Shipman was ther, woning fer by weste:
For aught I woot, he was of Dertemouthe.
He rood up-on a rouncy, as he couthe,
In a gowne of falding to the knee."

"Falding" was a coarse cloth.

[12] See Appendix VIII.

[13] See Captain Robinson's, _The British Fleet_, p. 503.

[14] _Ibid._, p. 502.

[15] I am indebted to a suggestion made on p. 183, vol. i. No. 7 of
_The Mariner's Mirror_.

[16] See article by Captain R. Hudleston, R.N., in _The Mariner's
Mirror_, vol. i. No. 7.

[17] _Victoria County Hist.: Sussex_, vol. ii. p. 199.

[18] For these details I am indebted to the kindness of Dr.
Robertson-Fullarton, who has also called my attention to some
information in an unlikely source--_The Memoirs of Norman Macleod,
D.D._, by Donald Macleod, 1876.

CHAPTER X

THE INCREASE IN SMUGGLING

By an Order in Council, dated September 9, 1807, certain rewards were
to be paid to the military for aiding any officer of the Customs in
making or guarding any seizure of prohibited "or uncustomed goods." It
was further directed that such rewards should be paid as soon as
possible, for which purpose the Controllers and Collectors were to
appraise with all due accuracy all articles seized and brought to his
Majesty's warehouse within seven days of the articles being brought
in. The strength of all spirits seized by the Navy or Military was
also to be ascertained immediately on their being brought into the
King's warehouse, so that the rewards might be immediately paid. The
tobacco and snuff seized and condemned were ordered to be sold. But
when these articles at such a sale did not fetch a sum equal to the
amount of the duty chargeable, then the commodity was to be burnt.
Great exertions were undoubtedly made by the soldiers for the
suppression of smuggling, but care had to be taken to prevent wanton
and improper seizures. The men of this branch of the service were
awarded 40s. for every horse that was seized by them with smuggled
goods.

Everyone is aware of the fact that, not once but regularly, the
smugglers used to signal to their craft at night from the shore as to