At this period the newly-raised corps were numbered, and this regiment received the designation of the EIGHTY-SIXTH, or SHROPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. On the 20th of June, 1794, Major-General Cuyler was appointed to the Sixty-ninth Regiment, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the EIGHTY-SIXTH, by Lieutenant-General Russell Manners. After remaining in Ireland ten weeks, the regiment embarked at Cork, and was held in readiness for active service; but it landed at Frome, in Somersetshire, in September, and proceeded from thence to the Isle of Wight. [Sidenote: 1795] The regiment having been brought into a state of discipline and efficiency, was selected to serve on board the fleet as marines; eight officers, and four hundred and fourteen non-commissioned officers and soldiers, embarked in January, 1795, on board the “Prince of Wales,” “Triumph,” “Brunswick,” and “Hector,” line-of-battle ships, and in February, seven officers, and two hundred and seventy-six non-commissioned officers and soldiers, embarked on board the “Prince,” “Saturn,” and “Boyne.” The “Boyne” caught fire at Spithead, and was destroyed, when the grenadier company of the regiment lost its arms, accoutrements, and baggage. Lieut.-General Russell Manners was removed to the Twenty-sixth Light Dragoons, in March, 1795, and was succeeded by Major-General William Grinfield, from Lieut.-Colonel in the Third Foot Guards. The head-quarters of the regiment were at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, where they were inspected by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, who expressed his approbation of their appearance; and in October the establishment was augmented to one hundred rank and file per company, its numbers being completed by drafts from the 118th and 121st Regiments; the men of the last-mentioned corps were then recently liberated from French prison. In December, the regiment was stationed at Portsmouth and Hilsea. [Sidenote: 1796] In the beginning of 1796, the establishment was augmented to twelve companies,--the eleventh and twelfth being recruiting companies; and as the ships of war came into port, the officers and soldiers of the EIGHTY-SIXTH landed and joined the regiment; they had served in several engagements in which the ships they were embarked in had taken part, during that eventful period. In April, the regiment proceeded to Guildford, and in June it returned to the Isle of Wight. Meanwhile, Flanders and Holland had embraced the republican principles of France, and the British government resolved to deprive the Dutch of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope; the EIGHTY-SIXTH embarked for the Cape, where they landed on the 22nd of September, six days after the Dutch governor had surrendered the colony to the forces under General Sir Alured Clarke. [Sidenote: 1797] [Sidenote: 1798] [Sidenote: 1799]