The regiment having completed five years' service on the West Indian station, was relieved, in 1821, by the Twenty-first Fusiliers, and ordered home; it embarked on the 10th, sailed on the 13th of April, and landed at Gosport on the 13th of June. From Gosport it proceeded to Winchester, and after a short stay there, to Brighton, where it was reviewed by the Duke of York, when his Royal Highness was pleased to express his approbation of the appearance of the corps. On the 24th of August, 1821, the regiment, still at Brighton, was reduced to eight companies on the following establishment:--1 colonel, 1 lieutenant-colonel, 2 majors, 8 captains, 10 lieutenants, 6 ensigns, 5 staff, 29 serjeants, 24 corporals, 12 drummers, and 552 privates. [Sidenote: 1822] In April, 1822, the regiment received a route to march to Hull in Yorkshire, where it remained in garrison a few weeks: in June it was ordered to proceed to Dublin, and arrived there on the 13th of July following. General Coates[32], after commanding the regiment nearly twenty-eight years, died on the 22nd of July, 1822, and was succeeded in the Colonelcy by Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B., Adjutant-General to the Forces. [Sidenote: 1824] The regiment remained at Dublin until May, 1824, when it embarked for England, and proceeded to Gosport, and in the month of August following it was moved to Chatham. [Sidenote: 1825] [Sidenote: 1826] [Sidenote: 1827] In the early part of February, 1825, the regiment, consisting of thirty-two serjeants, twenty drummers, and seven hundred and forty rank and file, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel J. Williams[33], marched from Chatham, and embarked at Gravesend for Bombay, where it arrived in the beginning of June, 1825. An augmentation of two companies, with a recruiting company, was made to the regiment on its embarkation for India service. This reinforcement sailed shortly after, and the whole corps, after assembling at Bombay, marched to Poonah, the capital of the Deccan, in which cantonment it arrived early in 1826. From Poonah four companies of the QUEEN'S ROYAL were detached in September, 1827, on an expedition against the Rajah of Koolapore, in the Mahratta country, south of Bombay. The light company of the QUEEN'S, with the light companies of the 20th and other regiments, were formed into a light battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Place[34], of the Queen's, and proceeded for the above destination. The service terminated the same year by the surrender of the territory and the capitulation of the Rajah. [Sidenote: 1828] Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B.[35] (Adjutant-General of the Forces), died on the 22nd of August, 1828, and was succeeded, as Colonel of the QUEEN'S ROYAL, by General the Right Honourable Sir William Keppel, G.C.B., from the Sixty-seventh Regiment. [Sidenote: 1831]