butcher's meat to be procured, except occasionally coarse tough buffalo-beef. The usual price of a bottle of bad arrack was from seven to ten rupees;

other or better liquor was not to be had; the common necessaries of life were equally scarce and expensive.

Previous to, and during the operations of the army under General Stuart, before Cuddalore, a battalion of the regiment served with the southern army under Colonel Lang, and entering the Mysore country, took a conspicuous part in the reduction of Caroor, on the 2d of April, 1783, where 130 of the British, including sixty of the corps, were killed and wounded. Also on the 16th of the same month, when the fort of Avaracourchy was stormed and carried; and at the surrender of Dindigul on the 4th of May.

Colonel Lang having been superseded by an alteration of rank in the royal army, was succeeded by Colonel Fullarton, whose first operation was the capture of Davaporam, on the 2d of June, the same day that orders were received from General Stewart, directing the southern army to march with the utmost dispatch on Cuddalore. He arrived within three marches of General Stewart before intelligence of peace with the French was received, when, having been reinforced by H. M.'s 78th regiment, a large detachment from the first and second battalion of the 1st Madras European Regiment, and two battalions of Sepoys under Colonels

Stewart and Kelly, he proceeded towards Madura and Tinnevelly, which, after thoroughly reducing to obedience, he again advanced towards Mysore.

The pay of the Company's troops in Colonel Fullarton's army was twelve months in arrears; a daily ration of rice issued to the Sepoy was his only food.

Hostilities with Tippoo had been for some time suspended; but on their re-commencement at Mangalore, Colonel Fullarton advanced towards Paulghaut, and after a most laborious and fatiguing march through a dense forest, reached it in November. By the 13th, batteries had been erected; the same evening the European grenadiers of the force drove the enemy out of their covered way, and having entered with the fugitives within the principal gates, they

surrendered at discretion.

On the 25th of November, Fullarton's army moved on Coimbetoor; but two days afterwards received orders from the Madras Government to suspend hostilities, and eventually to return towards Trichinopoly, and evacuate all the garrisons he had taken, with the exception of Dindigul, and retire with his army into cantonments. These orders were countermanded on the 26th of January, 1748, and Paulghaut and the other forts held until the 11th of March, when the treaty of peace was duly signed, and all the troops in the field went into garrison and cantonments.

The first battalion of the 1st had its head quarters

at Vellore, detachments at Masulipatam, and a grenadier company in the southern provinces; the second battalion of the 1st at Trichinopoly and Tan

jore; the first battalion of the 2d at Ellore; and the second battalion of the 2d in Fort St. George.

On the 6th of October, a large detachment from the Saint Helena regiment arrived at Madras, and were received on the strength of the second battalion of the 2d regiment; these men were considered excellent soldiers, being properly climatized by their service on the island.

On the 1st March, 1784, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Cosby was appointed to the 1st battalion 1st regiment, and commanded a small force, consisting of its grenadier company, a regiment of native cavalry, a train of artillery, and three native regiments, in the campaign against the Poligars of Tinnevelly.

At this time the native corps had drill sergeants appointed to them from the European corps: the appointment of Sergeant Pearson from the 2nd battalion of the 2nd, to be drill sergeant of the 28th Madras battalion, appeared in the General Order of March.

During March, 1785, the three companies of the 1st battalion of the 1st, on detachment at Masulipatam, were transferred to the 1st battalion of the 2nd, and the officers directed to return to the head-quarters of their regiment, when a sufficient number from the 1st battalion of the 2nd relieved

them. Among other officers who joined the 1st battalion of the 2nd at the time, was ensign, afterwards Major-General Sir John Malcolm.

On the 11th May, the Commander-in-chief ordered a new uniform for the army, to be made up from a pattern at the Adjutant-General's office, by the 1st of September; the facings of corps to be as follows:

Cavalry, blue; European infantry, blue; native infantry battalions, green, yellow, or buff; corps, faced with blue or green, to be embroidered with gold, the vest with silver. The colonels commanding the different regiments of Europeans, to fix upon regimental hats for their respective corps; the European corps to have one epaulette on the right shoulder.

On the 23rd August, of the same year, a General Order was published at Fort St. George, directing the four battalions of the corps to be formed into four distinct regiments of one battalion, each of their present strength.

2nd battalion of 1st Regt., to become the 1st European Regt.

The infantry of the Madras army were at the same time formed into six brigades, to the following of which the European regiments belonged, the colonels of each regiment commanding the brigade.

Lieut.-Colonel Fraser commanded 1st Regiment; Colonel Chesshyed the 2nd European Regt.

Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Bridges commanded 3rd Regiment, and Lieut.-Colonel Gibbings the 4th.

In General Orders of the 4th February, 1786, the clothing of the different troops was ordered to be faced as follows:

1st brigade, blue facings; 2nd, green; 3rd, yellow; 4th, yellow; 5th, buff; 6th, yellow. The facings of the four regiments corresponded with that of their brigades; the 1st, blue, the 2nd, green, and the 3rd and 4th, yellow.

In General Orders of the 16th April, 1786, the