Another interesting one in the Courant of 1 December 1792:
"A reward of fifty pounds. Whereas it has been represented to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs, that in the night of Monday the 15th of October last, WILLIAM BUTEMENT, Coastwaiter and Preventative Officer at Alemouth, within the port of Berwick, having at a place called BOOMER, near Alemouth aforesaid, made seizure of a boat containing several ankers of Geneva, was attacked by three men, who were supposed to have landed from an oyster boat belonging to----------DONALDSON of Cockaney, near Preston Pans, and then going to Newcastle; which said persons, after beating him in a violent manner, took from him the said boat and Geneva, together with his pistol, hat and shoes.
The Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs, in order to bring to justice the persons concerned in this outrage, are hereby pleased to offer a reward of FIFTY POUNDS, to any person or persons who shall discover and apprehend, or cause to be discovered and apprehended, any one or more of the offenders, to be paid by the Collector of Customs at Berwick, upon conviction."
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