In the beginning of 1831, the regiment marched to Bombay, to take a tour of duty at the Presidency, and occupied its former cantonments at Calaba. The monsoon of 1831 passed off without any of the destructive effects which marked that of 1825, when the regiment lost many valuable men. The casualties in the regiment, from climate, were little beyond what might be expected in European countries; and during its service in India, the same result has attended the good order and regularity maintained in the QUEEN'S. It is due to the corps to observe, that drunkenness has so far been kept within bounds as to be considered an unusual crime, and to be unknown in a company for a month together. To this happy cause may be attributed the healthy state of the regiment, and the circumstance of the hospital having at times been without a single soldier in it. If greater proof of the efficiency of the regiment were required, such would be perceived by reference to the reports of the inspecting generals. [Sidenote: 1834] In 1834 the QUEEN'S was relieved by the 40th Regiment, and returned to its former cantonments in the Deccan. General the Right Honourable Sir William Keppel[36], G.C.B., died on the 11th of December, 1834, and the Colonelcy of the QUEEN'S ROYAL was by his Majesty given to Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable Sir James Kempt, G.C.B. and G.C.H., from the 40th Regiment. [Sidenote: 1837] The Queen's Royal Regiment has continued to be employed in the Presidency of Bombay to the end of the year 1837, the period of the termination of this Record. It remains an efficient corps, and the laurels which it acquired in every quarter of the globe are preserved untarnished in the distant shores of India. * * * * * NOTE.--_The Compiler of this Record feels it his duty to acknowledge the most effective assistance which he has derived from Major Charles Head, late of the Queen's Royal Regiment, and from the devotedness which that gentleman has evinced in searching for the detail of all occurrences in which the honour of his late corps was concerned._ FOOTNOTES: