_Lieutenant-Colonel._--Samuel Birch. _Major._--Henry Bishop. _Adjutant._--John St. Clair, _Cornet_. _Surgeon._--Christopher Johnston. _Surgeon’s mate._--Alexander Acheson. _Deputy-Chaplain._--W. Oliver. _Major Bishopp’s Troop._ Robert Archdale, _Captain_. Frederick Metzer, _Cornet_. 1 Quartermaster, 2 sergeants, 2 corporals, 1 trumpeter, 29 dragoons, 31 horses. _Captain Straubenzee’s Troop._ Henry Nettles, _Lieutenant_. Sam. Baggot, _Cornet_. 5 Non-commissioned officers, 1 trumpeter, 26 dragoons, 31 horses. _Captain Moxham’s Troop._ Ben. Bunbury, _Lieutenant_. Thomas Cooke, _Cornet_. 5 Non-commissioned officers, 1 trumpeter, 26 dragoons, 31 horses. _Captain Delancey’s Troop._ Hamlet Obins, _Lieutenant_. James Hussey, _Cornet_. 5 Non-commissioned officers, 1 trumpeter, 1 hautboy, 27 dragoons, 31 horses. _Captain Needham’s Troop._ Mark Kerr, _Lieutenant_. Will. Loftus, _Cornet_. 5 Non-commissioned officers, 1 trumpeter, 26 dragoons, 31 horses. _Captain Crewe’s Troop._ Matthew Patteshall, _Lieutenant_. John St. Clair (Adjutant), _Cornet_. 5 Non-commissioned officers, 1 trumpeter, 1 hautboy, 26 dragoons, 31 horses. What manner of scenes there may have been at the embarkation that day at Cork it is impossible to conjecture. We can only bear in mind that there were a great many Irishmen in the ranks, and that probably all their relations came to see them off, and draw what mental picture we may. Meanwhile it is worth while to compare two embarkations of the regiment on active service, at roughly speaking, a century’s interval. In 1879 the Seventeenth with its horses sailed to the Cape in two hired transports--the _England_ and the _France_. In 1776 it filled no fewer than seven ships, the _Glen_, _Satisfaction_, _John and Jane_, _Charming Polly_, _John and Rebecca_, _Love and Charity_, _Henry and Edward_--whereof the very names suffice to show that they were decidedly small craft.