Second Infantry Brigade--Colonel David Baird: 71st (Highland Light Infantry), 73rd (Royal Highlanders), and the flank companies of the two battalions of the Madras European Regiment (Dublin Fusiliers), under Majors Petrie and Vigors. Third Infantry Brigade--Colonel Bilcliffe: 61st Pioneers, 62nd Punjabis, and 63rd Light Infantry. Fourth Brigade--Colonel Campbell: 66th Punjabis, 67th Punjabis, and the 8th Madras Infantry, which has ceased to exist. Fifth Infantry Brigade--Colonel Trent: 69th Pioneers, and the old 17th and 19th Regiments of Madras Infantry, which have been merged in other corps. Sixth Infantry Brigade--Colonel Cuppage: 23rd, 24th, and 25th Regiments of Madras Infantry. The artillery consisted of 117 men of the Royal and 731 of the Madras Artillery, and there were 75 English sappers, together with that well-tried regiment which has fought so bravely on so many fields--the Madras Sappers and Miners. I regret that I have been unable to trace the losses of all the native regiments; their total casualties amounted to 4 British officers and 135 native ranks killed and wounded. CASUALTIES AT PONDICHERRY, 1793. +------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Royal Artillery | - | 2 | 12 | 17 | |Roy. Engineers | 1 | 4 | 5 | 18 | |36th Worcesters | - | - | 5 | 9 | |52nd Oxford L.I. | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | |71st Highl. L.I. | - | 1 | 8 | 14 | |73rd R. Highl. | 3 | - | 7 | 13 | |Petrie's batt. | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | |Vigor's batt. | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | |61st Pioneers | - | - | 2 | 8 | |62nd Punjabis | 1 | - | 6 | 12 | |66th Punjabis | - | - | 3 | 5 | |67th Punjabis | 1 | - | 9 | 16 | +------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Although no battle honours have been awarded to the Indian regiments which took part in the operations against Pondicherry in the years 1778 and 1793, I have been at some pains to give a brief account of the operations, both of which, with their accompanying loss of life, might have been avoided had the Home Government either insisted on the retention of the conquests we had made in the East, or, were that impracticable, refused to allow the rebuilding of fortifications in the French settlements in India. "Pondicherry, 1778 and 1793," might be added with propriety to the battle honours of regiments which took part in the sieges of those years. BUXAR, OCTOBER 23, 1764. Royal Munster Fusiliers. Royal Dublin Fusiliers.