beach; the formation is to be effected as foon as possible, the men are to fall in, in line oppofite to where they land; nor is any individual or body of men, in conceiving themfelves difplaced, to attempt to regain their fituation by clofing to either flank, till ordered fo to do by the general officer on whom they depend, or the fenior officer prefent on the spot.

The troops are to land with fixty rounds of ammunition and two fpare flints per man; the ammunition which cannot be contained in the pouches to be carefully put in the packs. Three days bread and three days pork, ready cooked, is to be carried by officers and men; the fame quantity is to be landed to the troops; it is not however to be delivered out, but carried in kegs, and put under charge of the quarter-master of each regiment, with a party sufficient for the purpofe; each man will carry his canteen filled with water.

Three days barley will be carried for the horses of the cavalry, and of the ftaff and field officers.

The staff and field officers must provide themselves with forage facks previous to the fleet failing from this.

The men will carry their intrenching tools and the proportion of neceffaries fpecified in the orders 15th August last, viz. two shirts, one pair of shoes, two pair of socks or ftockings, neatly made up in their packs or knapsacks, their camp kettles and blankets. Regiments having both blankets and great coats, will leave the latter on board.

It is abfolutely necessary that the officers should bring on shore in the first instance fuch articles only as they can carry themselves. Officers fervants are not only on all occafions of service to be present under arms with the corps to which they belong; they are to carry no more than any other foldier, and are to mount all picquets and guards with their mafters. The smallest number of batmen poffible will be permitted: mounted officers alone are entitled to them.

The mufic, drummers, and men leaft fit for actual fervice, are to be selected for all regimental duties, not purely military; and officers commanding corps will be held ftrictly responsible for their being at all times, and in every fituation, in the most effective state.

A proportion of the general hofpital staff must be attached in the first instance to each brigade, and will be allowed fuch orderlies as are abfolutely neceffary from the brigade. Regimental Surgeons are to be allowed one orderly each to carry the field cafe of inftruments.

The spare arms, tents, and horse appointments of the difmounted cavalry, and every article of spare baggage, are to be left in charge of a careful non-commiffioned officer on board of each ship.

After the troops have landed, the fick of fuch regiments as are embarked in transports, are to be collected into one of the veffels occupied by the corps, under the care of the affiftant furgeon, who will as foon as poffible, report himfelf and the ftate of the men under his charge to the in

spector general of hofpitals on board H. M. S. Niger. In cafe of there being only one medical officer present with any regiment thus fituated, this duty must be affigned to a careful non-commiffioned officer.

Regiments embarked in men of war will leave the fick under the care of the furgeon of the ship, who will be entitled to the allowance established in fuch cases. If neceffary, a small proportion of orderly men may be left with the fick, to be selected from the convalefcent men: Regiments that have women will employ nurses in lieu of orderly men. The women are pofitively prohibited from landing, on any pretence whatever, until the commanding officers of corps have obtained the Commander in Chief's express permiffion for that purpose,

More detailed instructions, relative to the artillery, engineers, and commiffariat, will be communicated to the respective officers at the head of each of those departments.

In the first inftance, the troops will not have it in their power to bring forward their tents, but the ground on which the army, or any confiderable detachment of it halts, must be taken up regularly, the usual guards and picquets mounted, and patroles fent out in different directions,

Every officer occupying a poft, of whatever nature, will esteem it his first duty to patrole in the neighbourhood, in order to ascertain the nature of the country, the avenues that lead to it, and the means of strengthening it.

All

All horfes, mules, or camels, taken or found, are to be taken as soon as poffible to the commiffary general for the public service, nor is any individual to purchase or appropriate any horse, mule or camel, until permiffion is given.

The Commander in Chief has had much fatisfaction in obferving the behaviour of the troops in their transactions with the inhabitants during the stay of the army at Marmorice; he trufts that a continuation of the fame regular conduct will merit that approbation which he will at all times be anxious to beftow upon them; every instance of an oppofite conduct will be punished in a most exemplary

manner,

It will be the duty of officers of every rank to point out to the foldiers the evils they will expofe themselves to, by a neglect of discipline and good conduct.

The manners, cuftoms, and religious opinions of the inhabitants are to be most rigidly respected, and the severest punishment will await those who give just cause of offence in those particulars,

Straggling from camp, or lagging behind on a march, are to be strictly prohibited, and officers are enjoined to prevent it. Plundering and marauding will expose the offenders to fuffer immediate death,

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Officers are strictly enjoined to employ every means, and every precaution in their power, for the preservation of the health of the troops under their command.

The

The utmost vigilance will be expected from officers in fituations of active duty, whether at the out-posts, or more immediately with the army.

Reports to head quarters, or to the general officers on whom they depend, must be made with as little delay as poffible, but without precipitation, and if poffible not till the fubject of them has been thoroughly examined.

The circumftances under which it is probable the army will be called upon to act, will require that the exertion of every individual fhould concur to enforce the most exact difcipline, the most rigid œconomy in the confumption of provisions, fuel and water, and to diminish, as much as poffible, the labour of the foldier; with thefe objects before them, fo important and fo effential to the fuccefs of the expedition, the Commander in Chief is confident that officers will not repine at any temporary inconvenience they may feel, or regret any privation they may undergo, but will, on the contrary, animate by their example the foldiers under their command to a fimilar conduct.

GENERAL ORDERS.

Head Quarters, Marmorice,

H. M. S. Kent, February 19th, 1801.

THE general officers will be pleased to call

to their recollection the regulations relative to the field