The regiment proceeded to Portugal, and continued in that country until the termination of hostilities by the treaty of Fontainebleau, the preliminary articles of which were signed by the Duke of Bedford at Fontainebleau, on the 3rd of November, 1762. [Sidenote: 1763] Peace was proclaimed in London on the 22nd of March, 1763, and by its provisions it was settled that the Island of _Minorca_, which had been captured by the French in April, 1756, should be restored to Great Britain. The SIXTY-SEVENTH and the Third foot from Portugal, the Eleventh, Thirty-third, and Thirty-seventh regiments from Germany, and the Fifty-seventh from Gibraltar, were embarked in order to form the garrison of Minorca.[10] [Sidenote: 1768] [Sidenote: 1771] In the Royal Warrant of King George III. dated 19th of December, 1768, containing regulations for the colours, clothing, &c. of the regiments of foot, it was directed that the regimental colour of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment should be _pale yellow_, being similar to the colours of the Twentieth regiment, from which it was formed. The SIXTY-SEVENTH remained on duty at Minorca until July, 1771, when the Third, Eleventh, and SIXTY-SEVENTH regiments embarked for England, on being relieved by the Royals (second battalion), the Fifty-first and Sixty-first regiments. [Sidenote: 1773] In the year 1773 the regiment proceeded to Scotland, where it remained until the year 1775. [Sidenote: 1774] On the decease of Lieut.-General Hamilton Lambert in 1774, His Majesty was pleased to promote Lieut.-Colonel Edward Maxwell Brown, from the Twenty-first, Royal North British Fusiliers, to the colonelcy of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment, on the 11th of March, 1774. [Sidenote: 1775] The regiment embarked for Ireland in 1775, to replace the Forty-second, Royal Highland regiment, and continued on duty in that country until the year 1785. [Sidenote: 1782] On the 31st of August, 1782, His Majesty directed that the regiment should be designated the SIXTY-SEVENTH, or the SOUTH HAMPSHIRE regiment, with a view that a connexion might be cultivated between the corps and that county, in order to promote the success of the recruiting service. [Sidenote: 1785] Early in the year 1785 the regiment embarked from Ireland for the West Indies, to relieve the Fifty-fifth regiment. The regiment proceeded from Barbadoes to Antigua in the autumn of 1785. [Sidenote: 1788] During the years 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, and 1792, the regiment was stationed at Grenada. [Sidenote: 1793] In the year 1793 the regiment was stationed at Barbadoes, and in July, 1794, returned to Great Britain: the regiment subsequently proceeded to Ireland. [Sidenote: 1796]