When the Deg
For Servic
24
Inclosure 3 in No. 9.
stem was established, the regiments were to be thus divided:- companies of 86 rank and file, or 515.
For Depôt, 4 companies of 56 ditto, or 224.
The charge of a regiment of ten companies so divided, will be, on establishment,
Pay, facluding second Assistant-Surgeon
Annual Allowances of 28. a day to each Captain abroad, and Is. 6d. to each
at home
Agency. Clothing
The additional Allowances to the Depot of each regiment are,-
To Officer commanding
Acting Adjutant
Ditto frge
Acting faster
Acting Sant-Major
328 10
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£22,4
18 8
0
234 2,186
1
2
£25,234 18 11
£54 15 0
36
10 0
36
10 0
73
0 0
12
3 4
3
0 10
9 2 6
3040 0
5 0 0
260
8
£25,495 0
7
panies, should have eighte companies, of prenty-five rank and file each on service, and two companies, of seventy rank filebach at home.
Acting Quartermaster-Serjedt
Acting Orderly-room Clerk
For Postage
School
Cost of Regiment divided
It is proposed thegiments now having 600 men abroad, in six
The companies at home to be formed into battalions, either of twelve or ten companies. The senior
Field Officer to take the command of the battalion.
The charge of a regiment of ten companies so divided, will be, on establishment,
Pay
£22,949
1 2
Annual Allownes, Is. 6d each company
Agency
Clothing
33 15 232
17 2,186 7
10
~OON
25,082 1
2
Additional Allowance for the battalion will be,
Pay of Paymaster
£228
6
"
Surgeon
237
Assistant Surgeon
136 17
6
Allowance to Officer commanding,
38.
54 15 0
"
Two Aging Adjutants, 3s.
54 15 0
Ditto for Forage
48.
73 0 0
Ang Serjeant-Major
21
5 10
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A
H
Quatermaster-Seripant
Ang Ordly-room Cak
12
3 4
9
2 6
+
Two Assistant Serjeant-Majors, each 6d.
18
5 0
for Postage..
60 0 0
,, for School
10 0 0
£915 11 8
of £91511. 8d. in..
£183
2
4
·
Cost of each regiment whose depot of two companies forms part of a battalion of
ten companies
£25,265
3
6
Cost of a regiment as above
of £915 11. 8d. is..
25,082 153
1
2+
2
£ 25,235
3
2
25
No. 10.
Lord Hill to the Marquess of Normanby.
Horse Guards, April 25, 1839.
My Lord,
THIS being the usual period for taking into consideration the annual reliefs for the troops employed in Her Majesty's Foreign possessions, and as it corresponds also with the time fixed in the letter from Lord Glenelg, of the 21st,December, 1838, in which the desire of Her Majesty's Government was expressed, that the reductions therein contem- plated of one regimens from the garrison of the Mauritius, two from Ceylon, and one from Gibraltar, should not be carried into effect before the months of April or May, it beconies iny duty to bring the whole subject forward for your hip's early attention.
If this reduction of three regiments from Mauritius and Ceylon be now intended, it is desirable that Her Majesty's commands to that effect should be convereto ine as soon as may be convenient, to enable me to make the necry arrangement to send these three regiments for the relief of one now at the Cape, and of two regimens now in India. With regard to the regiment from Gibraltar, I perceive, in a subsequent letter from Lord Glenelg, dated January 8th, that it is the intention of Her Majesty's Govern- ment, that for the present, a battalion should not be withdrawn from that fortress, and that when withdrawn it should proceed to another station in the usual course of relie It may assist your Lordship's judgment in deciding upon this measure, to lay before you a copy of a letter recently received from the Governor of Gibraltar, dated 21st March last, with its inclosure, from which it will be perceived that of 2,566 pries, there are no less than 1,398 in daily employment.
The practice has been relieve the regiments employed in all our foreign possessions, India and Australia alone acepted, after a service abroad of not less than 10 years; and this has been observed with little deviation since the formation of a Peace Establishment and until it was materially interrupted by the large additions made to the force, in British North America in the course of the last year, 1838.
In 1837, a plan was proposed by the Secretary at War, for giving to all the regiments of infantry an equal chance of the dangers of the service in bad climates, and an equal portion of the advantages of those more favourable to health with the day of endeavour- ing to mitigate the evils of our tropical service, so that a regular tour duty should be established, by which a regiment ordered abroad should pass the at year of its foreign service in the Mediterranean or Gibraltar, the following years the West Indies or Jamaica, and the last in the North American Provinces, and thence hope, the intention being to divide the whole period of 10 years abroad into three nearly equal periods, upof those stations respectively.
It has hitherto been my endeavour to give to this system every practicable effect, and to overcome as far as in my power the many serious obstacles which uppose themselves in detail to the accurate working of foreign reliefs, upon any general principle with a com- paratively small force, and which difficulties have of necessity been largely increased, by rea- son of the sudden and wholly unexpected demands made for reinforceme in British North America; but that this system of rotation cannot, with the existing plishment of the army and the demands made upon it, be carried into complete effect, it is only necessary to show that there are at this moment four regiments in Jamaica, whose period of service in that island has been five, six, und eight years, and in the West Indies six regiments, who have been there three, four, five, and six years, and this notwithstanding that two regi- ments have been unexpectedly drawn from those islands for additional reinforcements to Canada since 1837, when this system was suggested.
Having thus explained to your Lordship, as briefly as may be, the principle and prac- tice on which the foreign reliefs have been hitherto conducted, it is now my duty to lay before you their present state, showing the number of regiments which ought in due course to be relieved, and the means at my disposal to provide for them.
There are at this moment nine regiments which have served abroad ten years and up- wards, of which number four, now in Canada, have been abroad twelve years, three, now in Canada, of ten years, one, now in the Mediterranean, of ten years, one, now at the Cape, of eleven years, all of which ought therefore, according to the established practice, as before shown, to be relieved in the course of the current year.
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The nine regiments which are the first for foreign service, are those which returned home in the year 1836, and consequently have not been yet three years at home, and
1 served in India
3 in the West Indies
3 in the Mediterranean
1 at Ceylon
9
at Nova Scotia
Years.
10
10
11
11
TI
£229 17 1
of those-
259 17 5
Saving in each regiment forming part of a battalion of 10 companies
Being for the five
£1,449 61. 6d.
·
Saving in each regiment forming part of a battalion of 12 companies
Being for the six
£1559 4 6d.
There will be further saving, which cannot be shown, from the passage and travelling expences of officers interchanged between the Service Companies and the Depôts. The Majors are, by regula- tions, entitled to exchange every two years, and other officers become, by promotion, &c., supernumerary to the Service Companies and are sent home. This charge will be lessened.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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