'We, the Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Privates of the above regiment, do most willingly subscribe _One Hundred Guineas_, in order to detect any Author, Printer, or Distributor of papers, or hand-bills, criminal to the Military Establishment and the Laws of the country, or for information against any person or persons found guilty of bribing with money, or holding out other false allurements against His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Third, or against this country. 'We unanimously agree to give a reward of Ten Guineas out of the above subscription (to be paid on conviction) to the person or persons who will inform against, secure, or deliver over, to any man of the above regiment, the Author, Printer, or Distributor of papers or hand-bills, or any person or persons found guilty of bribing with money, or of holding out other false allurements to any soldier in this district. GOD SAVE THE KING!' _Signed at the particular request of the Non-Commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Privates of the regiment_, MICHAEL EAGER, _Serjeant-Major_. On the 7th of October, the remainder of the _Second Battalion_, under Lieutenant-Colonel Harris, arrived from the West Indies, joined the corps at Penzance, and the whole were incorporated into one battalion. In December the regiment was again marched to Plymouth, to do duty in Mill Prison; and on the 25th of the same month twelve lieutenants and two companies were reduced. [Sidenote: 1798] In February, 1798, the Queen's received orders to hold itself in readiness for embarkation. It was brigaded at Plymouth with the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-ninth, under the command of Lord Dalhousie, in March; and on the 12th of June following embarked at Barnstaple, under Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre, for Ireland, where republican principles had gained ground, and being encouraged by promised aid from France, the malcontents broke into acts of open rebellion. The regiment landed in Ireland on the 20th of February, and arrived at Fowke's Mill in the middle of the action between Major-General Sir John Moore and the rebels. On the next day, the army moved on to Wexford, which Lord Dalhousie entered with the flank companies of the QUEEN'S ROYAL, and liberated Lord Kingsborough, and several other Protestant gentlemen, who were to have been put to death. Lieutenant Charles Turner[26], of the QUEEN'S ROYAL, was one of the officers who, a few days after, surprised and took prisoner the celebrated _Bagenal Harvey_, who had concealed himself in a cave in Saltee Island, and whose character for courage and desperation was such that few people would have ventured to approach his hiding-place.