The regiment remained seventeen months at Colombo, where it was joined by one hundred and twenty-eight volunteers from the Seventy-third; in August, 1821, it marched, under Major Vandeleur, for Kandy, where Colonel Tolley resumed the command, and on his proceeding on leave of absence, in October, 1822, the command devolved on Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Lionel Hook. [Sidenote: 1823] Lieut.-General Gordon died in the spring of 1823, and was succeeded in the colonelcy by Lieut.-General William Carr, Viscount Beresford, G.C.B., and G.C.H. [Sidenote: 1824] In March, 1824, the regiment returned to Colombo, where it lost several officers and a number of men by a malignant fever. [Sidenote: 1825] [Sidenote: 1826] Colonel Tolley was promoted to the rank of Major-General; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Hook was nominated to a Lieut.-Colonelcy in the Ceylon rifle corps; and Colonel David Ximenes was appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the SIXTEENTH; this officer arrived at Colombo in March, 1826, and assumed the command of the regiment, which marched from Colombo, in July following, for Point de Galle. [Sidenote: 1827] On the 2nd of July, 1827, Lieutenants Alexander, Mylius, and Hyde, Ensigns Cassidi and Hannagan, three serjeants, and one hundred and eight rank and file, joined from the depôt in England. [Sidenote: 1828] [Sidenote: 1829] The regiment, having been appointed to proceed to Bengal, was relieved from duty at the island of Ceylon, by the Sixty-first, in November, 1828, and embarking from thence in four divisions, arrived at Calcutta in January, 1829, when Colonel Ximenes was appointed to command the garrison of Fort William, and Major John W. Adain assumed the command of the regiment; which received one hundred and fourteen volunteers from the Fifty-ninth, and forty-six from the Thirtieth and Forty-seventh regiments. In April Major Adain obtained leave to proceed to England, and the command of the regiment devolved on Major Adam Gordon Campbell, until the arrival of Lieut.-Colonel Lionel Smith Hook, in November: this officer was appointed to the regiment in February of this year. [Sidenote: 1830] The SIXTEENTH remained on duty at Calcutta, where, in October and November, 1830, they received sixty-four volunteers from other corps. [Sidenote: 1831] In January, 1831, Colonel Hook was nominated to the command of the garrison of Fort William, and Major Campbell resumed the command; but on the regiment quitting Calcutta, in March following, to proceed in steam-boats to Chinsurah, Colonel Hook again assumed the command. At this period twenty volunteers joined from the Royal regiment. [Sidenote: 1832] [Sidenote: 1833] [Sidenote: 1834]