In the early part of 1832, the regiment was stationed at Haslar Barracks, from whence it proceeded to Portsmouth, where it remained five months. In the middle of July it embarked for Ireland, and after landing at Cork, marched from thence to Buttevant. [Sidenote: 1833] [Sidenote: 1834] In 1833 the head-quarters were removed to Athlone; in 1834 to Dublin, and afterwards to Mullingar. [Sidenote: 1835] General Lord Lynedoch having been removed to the First, the Royal, Regiment of Foot, King William IV. conferred the colonelcy of the regiment on Lieutenant-General the Honorable Sir Charles Colville, G.C.B., G.C.H., by commission, dated the 12th of December, 1834. This officer was removed to the Fifth Fusiliers in March, 1835, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the FOURTEENTH Regiment by Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B., who, as lieutenant-colonel, commanded the regiment in 1795. The head-quarters were removed to Dundalk in the summer of 1835. [Sidenote: 1836] Five years had not elapsed from the period of the return of the regiment from India, when it received orders to prepare for embarkation for the West Indies. It was divided into six service and four depôt companies; the service companies embarked from Cork in February, 1836, arrived, in March, at Barbadoes, and were removed, in April, to the island of St Kitt's. [Sidenote: 1837] In February, 1837, the service companies were removed to Antigua. On the 19th of May, General the Honorable Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B., Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, died, and was succeeded in the colonelcy by Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K.C.B., who had commanded the regiment in India, as lieutenant-colonel, from the year 1807 to 1821, when he was promoted to the rank of major-general. In June the depôt companies embarked from Waterford for England, and, landing at Bristol, proceeded from thence to Brecon. [Sidenote: 1838] During the year 1838, the service companies remained at Antigua. The distinguished services of the FOURTEENTH Regiment in India, from 1807 to 1831, having been, at the special request of Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, brought before Her Majesty by the Commander-in-Chief, the Royal authority was given for the badge of the "ROYAL TIGER," superscribed "INDIA," to be borne upon the regimental colour and appointments, to commemorate its services in that part of Her Majesty's dominions. [Sidenote: 1839] [Sidenote: 1840] In December[17] orders were received for the removal of the service companies from Antigua to St. Lucia, where they arrived in the beginning of January, 1839: in April, 1840, they proceeded to Barbadoes, and in June to Trinidad. They suffered severely on these stations from yellow fever and other effects of a tropical climate. The depôt companies proceeded from England to Ireland in June, 1840. [Sidenote: 1841]