l kind of contest.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

SLOOPS OR CUTTERS

The reputed difference between a sloop and cutter in the eighteenth
century is well illustrated by the following, which is taken from the
Excise Trials, vol. xxx., 1st July 1795 to 17th December 1795, p. 95.

In Attorney-General _v._ Julyan and others there was an action to
condemn the vessel _Mary_ of Fowey, brought under the provisions of
sec. 4, c. 47, 24 Geo. III., as amended by sec. 6, c. 50, 34 Geo. III.
There were several counts, including one with regard to the vessel
being fitted with "arms for resistance," but the case turned on the
question whether she was cutter-rigged or sloop-rigged. Counsel for
the prosecution defined a cutter as "a thing constructed for swift
sailing, which, with a view to effect that purpose, is to sink
prodigiously at her stern, and her head to be very much out of water
... built so that she should measure a great deal more than she would
contain."

Such a definition, however satisfactory it may have been to the legal
mind, was one that must have vastly amused any seafaring man. The
judge, quoting expert evidence, explained the difference between a
cutter and a sloop as follows:--A standing or running bowsprit is
common to either a sloop or a cutter, and a traveller, he said, was an
invariable portion of a cutter's rig, so also was a jib-tack. The
jib-sheet, he ruled, differed however; that of a cutter was twice as
large as that of a sloop and was differently set. It had no stay. A
sloop's jib-sheet was set with a fixed stay. Furthermore, in a cutter
the tack of the jib was hooked to a traveller, and there was a large
thimble fastened to a block which came across the head of the sail.
There were two blocks at the mast-head, one on each side. "A rope
passes through the three blocks by which it is drawn up to the
halliards." The jib of a cutter "lets down and draws in a very short
time." A cutter usually had channels and mortice-holes to fix legs to
prevent oversetting.

APPENDIX II

LIST OF CRUISERS EMPLOYED IN THE CUSTOMS SERVICE FOR THE YEAR 1784

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Name. |Number of|Where | |
|Crew. |Stationed. | Remarks. |
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_Lively_ and } | 14 | London | These ve