ts a week." They were
ordered generally to co-operate with the Revenue cruisers and to keep
a journal of all proceedings. When out at night time they were to
have a candle and "lanthorn" in the boat as well as the boat's
"bittacle," and not to rummage a vessel without the candle being
carefully secured in the lanthorn to prevent accident by fire. All
suspicious ships were to be rummaged, and whenever the weather would
not permit of the boat keeping the sea, the crew and Inspecting
Commander were to keep a look-out by land. Even as late as 1819, when
the great wars had come to an end, it was found that the transfer of
smugglers to the Navy had continued to be the most effectual means of
protecting the Revenue. The sum of L20 was granted for each smuggler
taken, and this was paid to the individual or individuals by whom or
through whose means the smuggler was absolutely secured, and it was
not to be paid to the crew in general. But when chasing a smuggling
craft, whether by night or day, they were not to fire at the
delinquents until the Custom House Jack had been displayed. The salary
of each Inspecting Commander, it may be added, was now L200 per annum
and L60 for the first cost and upkeep of an able horse.

CHAPTER XIII

THE PERIOD OF INGENUITY

Just as there had been a great improvement in the reorganisation
brought about by the advent of the Coast Blockade, so the Preventive
service on shore generally was smartened up. That this was so is clear
from the existing correspondence. For instance, five more Preventive
boats were to be stationed between Shellness and Southwold, and three
between Cuckmere Haven and Hayling Island; another boat was sent to
Newton (Yorkshire), another to Dawlish (Devonshire), and another to
Happisburgh (Norfolk) or, as it was then spelt, Hephisburg.

Some idea of the activity of the cruisers may be seen from the number
of smugglers which these craft had been able to capture. The reader
will recollect that during the year ending October 1, 1810, the
highest number of smugglers handed over to the Navy was thirteen, and
this was done by Captain Gunthorpe of the Excise cutter _Viper_. He
thus became entitled to the sum of L500. It will be remembered also
that it was afterwards decided that, beginning in 1812, L500 would be
paid only if the number captured was not less than twenty. But now
from a Treasury Minute of October 20, 1818, we find that, although the
former number of captures