“I have the honour to acquaint you that Her Majesty’s SEVENTY-SECOND regiment embarked this morning on board the transport Bombay, and I have the satisfaction to add, that up to the last moment this distinguished corps conducted itself so as to merit the highest approbation that could be bestowed on the commanding officer, officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates for military qualities, and general deportment towards the community at large. I have, &c. R. T. WILSON, General and Governor.” The SEVENTY-SECOND arrived at Barbadoes on the 14th of March, 1848. The depôt companies continued in North Britain, until the 18th of May, when they embarked for England, under Lieut.-Colonel C. M. Maclean, and arrived at Sheerness on the 24th of May, at which period this Record is concluded. 1848. [Illustration: SEVENTY-SECOND OR DUKE OF ALBANY’S OWN HIGHLANDERS. _For Cannon’s Military Records._ _Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t Strand._] FOOTNOTES: [6] From the Dutch service. [7] From the Austrian service. [8] Among the French prisoners was a wounded young serjeant of very interesting appearance and manners, who was treated with much kindness by Lieut.-Colonel Wangenheim, commanding the detachments of Hanoverians. Many years afterwards, when the French army entered Hanover, General Wangenheim attended the levée of General Bernadotte, who referred to the circumstance at Cudalore in 1783, and added,--“I am the individual who, when a young serjeant, received kindness from you in India.”--_Colonel David Stewart on the Scots Highlanders._ [9] “1790, 5th Sept. Camp at Coimbetore.--Dined with Captain Frazer; he talked of nothing but the storm of Palacatcherry. Captain Frazer has applied for, and obtained, the command of the four flank companies; it is very spirited of him, leaving the command of the regiment, and volunteering so dangerous a service; but he was as great as Cæsar this evening, and nothing would serve him but dying in the breach. He often appealed to me, when speaking of what the grenadiers could do.”--_Journal of Lieutenant Ronald Campbell, of the Grenadier Company, Seventy-second Regiment, 2 vols., fol. MS._