About the middle of August the General stated the impracticability of advancing into the interior country with his present force, and expressed a wish to await the arrival of fresh levies from America, and the expected reinforcements from Europe, which now became essential to complete the skeleton Corps of his Army. The first resource was planned at the outset of the West India expedition, and instructions had been early given to the Commander in Chief to avail himself of it, when compelled by emergency. Accordingly, recruiting parties were sent to New England to raise volunteers, and General Wentworth, by a personal appeal to the Governor of that province, urged the necessity of their being seconded with public spirit and public liberality. Similar steps were adopted in the State of New York, to fill up the American Regiments of Marines; and the Governors, by an impressive address to the Legislative Houses of both, strongly recommended their energies, not only on the ground of patriotism, but of political expediency. Bounties of forty shillings were offered to volunteers, and the alluring inducements of conquered territory.--America then saw her interests in the subjugation of the Spanish dependencies in that quarter of the globe. During a long interval nothing was attempted, even towards a partial reduction of Cuba, at the close of which, sickness, the never-failing result of total inactivity in these climes, began his ravages. It was therefore determined to evacuate the island, which was effected upon the 20th of November, when the regimental returns were as follow: _Serj._ _Corp._ _Drum._ _Priv._ General Harrison's Foot 22 23 8 172 Wentworth's ditto 22 17 8 172 Colonel Wolfe's (Marines) 20 23 6 132 Frazer's 22 21 6 109 Lowther's 22 24 8 183 Wynyard's 23 20 11 123 Cochran's 15 11 7 158 Cotterell's 24 26 10 151 First Battalion, Gooch's (American) 16 11 3 129 Second ditto 10 7 3 90 Third ditto 10 7 3 79 Fourth ditto 6 7 1 107 ---------------------------- 212 197 74 1610 Sick in all 39 47 15 465 251 244 89 2073 ============================