During the summer of 1722 the ROYAL DRAGOONS were encamped near Durham; and on the 12th of January, 1723, the colonelcy, having become vacant by the decease of Sir Charles Hotham, was conferred on Brigadier-General HUMPHREY GORE, from the tenth dragoons. [Sidenote: 1724] [Sidenote: 1725] [Sidenote: 1726] The regiment occupied extensive quarters in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 1724; in the following year it furnished detachments to assist the revenue officers in their duties on the coast; and in October, 1726, it was stationed in Sussex and Essex. England having agreed to furnish ten thousand men to assist the States-General in their war with the Emperor of Germany, the ROYAL DRAGOONS were augmented to nine troops, of five hundred and fifty-two officers and men, and selected to form part of this force. No embarkation was, however, required. [Sidenote: 1727] [Sidenote: 1728] The decease of King George I. took place on the 11th of June, 1727; and a few days previous to the coronation of his successor, George II., the ROYAL DRAGOONS marched into quarters near London, and were reviewed in brigade with Honeywood's (now eleventh) dragoons by his Majesty on Hounslow Heath, on the 17th of October. They subsequently proceeded into Leicestershire and Derbyshire; and in the beginning of the succeeding year the establishment was again reduced to six troops. [Sidenote: 1730] [Sidenote: 1731] [Sidenote: 1732] [Sidenote: 1733] In the spring of 1730 the regiment marched into cantonments in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire; in 1731 it was stationed in Kent, with detachments on coast duty; and in the month of March in the following year proceeded into Somersetshire, from whence it detached, in the spring of 1733, several parties to the maritime towns and villages on the Suffolk coast, where frequent rencounters took place between the military and smugglers. [Sidenote: 1734] [Sidenote: 1735] [Sidenote: 1737] [Sidenote: 1738] The several detachments were collected in May, 1734, and the six troops assembled at Taunton, where they were reviewed by their colonel, Major-General Gore. One troop was afterwards detached into Sussex; and in August another troop proceeded to Bath, and furnished a daily guard for the Princess Amelia during her Royal Highness's residence at that city. In August, 1735, the five troops in Somersetshire marched to the north, and were placed under the orders of Lieut.-General Wade, commander-in-chief in Scotland. They, however, returned to England in April, 1737, and were quartered in Lancashire; and during the summer of the following year the six troops were stationed in Essex and Kent, with detachments on coast duty. [Sidenote: 1739]