employed on this occasion, and especially on the conduct of their commanding officer, Captain Nixon, and of Lieutenant Yates and Ensign Allen, to be highly honourable to them; and has directed the expression of his distinguished approbation to be conveyed to them generally and individually through the channel of the Resident at Amboyna.

"Secretary to Government." In 1810, the regiment arrived at Wallajabad, and many of the men were drafted into the artillery, and the head-quarters afterwards marched to Poonamallee.

Upon the departure for Europe of Major-General Gowdie, who had risen in and served with the corps during a considerable period of the last century, and particularly distinguished himself with it during the Mysore wars, the following order was published :—

66 GENERAL ORDER BY GOVERNMENT.

"14th March, 1811.

"Upon the approaching departure of Major-General Gowdie on his return to Europe, the Governor in Council performs a satisfactory obligation of his public duty in expressing the sense entertained by this Government of the merits and services of the Major-General during a long and arduous career, in the course of which, his zealous exertions and devotion to the public interests and to his professional duties, have repeatedly been acknowledged.

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"The Governor in Council experiences the greatest satisfaction in declaring in Public Orders his entire approbation of the zealous and honourable line of conduct which had so eminently distinguished Major-General Gowdie since his appointment to the staff of the army."

Intelligence was received in the end of the year of the death of Brigadier-General Calliaud: he had retired from the service in 1775, and settled in Oxfordshire, where he lived to an advanced age, highly respected by the nobility and gentry of the county.

In 1811, the regiment was under orders for Java, but was countermanded; a detachment, however, served as sappers on that expedition.

In 1812, the regiment was stationed at Vellore, and in 1813, marched to Wallajabad, and whilst stationed there was inspected by the Commander-inchief, Lieutenant-General Abercrombie, in 1814, who expressed himself in General Orders of 10th March as follows:

"His Excellency the Commander-in-chief having concluded a minute review and inspection of the troops composing the cantonment of Wallajabad, has great satisfaction in stating to the army in this public manner, his entire approbation of the order, efficiency, and discipline which so strongly mark the zeal and ability with which the command of that station is exercised by Lieutenant-Colonel Fletcher. "The excellence and neatness of the appoint

ments of the Madras European regiment, as well as their performance in the field, and their interior economy in barracks, leaves the Commander-in-chief only to regret their want of numbers; but he trusts, that at an early period, they will be as complete in men, as they are in that system and attention he has now with pleasure remarked.

"The order and regularity of system which characterise the hospital, and particularly the style and the arrangements in the dispensary, attracted the Commander-in-chief's peculiar approbation."

In August, 1813, intelligence was received of the death, in England, of Sir Barry Close, Bart. He had entered the army in 1772, and the following year joined one of the battalions of the regiment, and served with the corps throughout the early Mysore wars. After filling many high and important situations he became Adjutant-General of the Madras army, when he performed most distinguished services in the last war against Tippoo Sultaun, and was subsequently appointed by the Marquis Wellesley, on account of his eminent talents and integrity, as well as his knowledge of the language, manners, and customs of the natives, Resident at Mysore. In 1800, the Honorable Court of Directors, in testimony of its high sense of his services, presented him with a sword worth three hundred guineas. On his return to England in 1810, the Madras Government expressed itself highly of his eminent and distinguished services.

In 1818, the Court of Directors sent out a splendid monument to his memory, which was erected in St. Mary's, Fort St. George, during the early part of 1819, and at present forms one of the greatest ornaments to that very old church.

The flank companies proceeded in 1815 as far as Trichinopoly en route to Ceylon, when, on the rebellion in Candy being suppressed, they returned and joined the army assembled on the banks of the Toombudra river, in consequence of the Pindarrie war. When the army was broken up and about to return into quarters, Sir Thomas Hyslop, in a General Order of the 28th April, 1815, expressed himself "highly gratified at the excellent appearance of so large a force of the Madras army; its high credit and reputation had prepared him to expect much, but its efficiency and discipline surpassed his utmost expectations;" he also remarked, in the highest terms of commendation, the orderly and steady conduct of the troops towards the inhabitants of the country.

The flank companies rejoined the Head-Quarters of the regiment at Trichinopoly, and the same year the whole corps marched and joined the force under command of Colonel Marriot before Kurnool. On the 15th December, that fort surrendered, and the Nabob was deposed, and is now a state prisoner in the citadel of Bellary.

In a General Order of the 1st January, 1816, the Commander-in-chief noticed with satisfaction the