[Sidenote: 1787.] On the 4th of June 1787, the commanding officer, Colonel the Honorable George Mackenzie, died, after a short illness. His body was sent to Madras, and there interred with the military honors due to his rank. The senior major, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Elphinston, succeeded to the lieutenant-colonelcy and to the command of the regiment. Captain David Baird was at the same time promoted to the rank of major. The commissions of these officers were dated 5th of June 1787. During the year 1787 no change of quarters took place, and the regiment remained in cantonments at Wallajohabad and Chingleput. [Sidenote: 1788.] In February 1788, in consequence of some disturbance or alarm at the Bombay Presidency, the SEVENTY-FIRST marched to Madras, and immediately embarked on board the Company’s ships for Bombay. The regiment was commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Elphinston, and was about eight hundred strong. After a favorable passage, the ships arrived at Bombay in April, when the regiment immediately disembarked and went into barracks, where it remained for six months. The Seventy-fifth and Seventy-seventh regiments having, in this interval, arrived at Bombay from England, the services of the SEVENTY-FIRST became no longer necessary at that Presidency, and the regiment proceeded in October to Madras, where it arrived in December. Five companies, under Lieut.-Colonel Elphinston, occupied the barracks in Fort St. George, and the other five companies proceeded to Poonamallee. [Sidenote: 1789.] Major-General the Honorable William Gordon was appointed colonel of the SEVENTY-FIRST regiment on the 9th of April 1789, in succession to Major-General John Lord Macleod, deceased. In the course of the year 1789, the five companies at Poonamallee were removed to Tripassoor. [Sidenote: 1790.] On the 16th of March 1790, the companies at Madras and Tripassoor received orders to join a force which was assembling at Wallajohabad, under the orders of Colonel Thomas Musgrave, of the Seventy-sixth, in consequence of the hostilities which Tippoo Saib had commenced against the Rajah of Travancore, a faithful British ally. The SEVENTY-FIRST arrived at Wallajohabad on the 18th of March, and joined the other troops, consisting of the nineteenth light dragoons, fifty-second, and SEVENTY-FIRST regiments, the third and fourth native cavalry, the first battalion of coast artillery, and the second, fourth, ninth, fourteenth, and twenty-fifth coast sepoys.