“His Majesty has selected for the Royal Marines a _Device_, to which their achievements have entitled them, and which, by his permission, I this day present to you;--a _Badge_ which you have so hardly and honorably earned:--From the difficulty of selecting any particular places to inscribe on these Standards, your Sovereign has been pleased to adopt ‘_The Great Globe itself_,’ as the most proper and distinctive badge. He has also directed, that his own name (_George IV._) shall be added to that peculiar badge, THE ANCHOR, which is your distinctive bearing, in order that it may be known hereafter, that GEORGE THE FOURTH had conferred on you the honorable and well-earned badge this day presented to you. “The motto, peculiarly your own, ‘_Per Mare; Per Terram_,’ has been allowed to remain; and surmounting the entire is the word GIBRALTAR, in commemoration of the important national services you performed there. In presenting these Colours, the gift of your Sovereign, into your hands, I trust,--I am confident,--you will defend them with the same intrepidity, loyalty, and regard for the interests of the country, that have marked your preservation of your old ones; and if you do, your Sovereign, and your Country, will have equal reason to be satisfied.” [Illustration: THE ROYAL MARINES _For Cannon’s Military Records_] FOOTNOTES: [44] By Order in Council, dated 26th October, 1604, it was directed, that twelve hundred land-soldiers should be raised, in order to be in readiness for distribution in His Majesty’s fleets; the whole to form one regiment, of six companies, under a Colonel, with a Lieutenant-Colonel, and Serjeant-Major; each company consisted of two hundred soldiers, with a captain, lieutenant, ensign, drummer, four serjeants, and four corporals. The regiment was armed with firelocks. A subsequent Order in Council, dated 1st April, 1668, authorised the drawing of such numbers of soldiers from the Foot Guards, for His Majesty’s service at sea, during the summer, as the Lord High Admiral might require. [45] In 1732 trustees were appointed by charter to superintend a new settlement in _Georgia_, situated to the southward of _Carolina_ in America, and _Mr. James Oglethorpe_, General and Governor of the Province, embarked at Gravesend with a number of poor families to plant that Colony. In 1737, when the King of Spain claimed as part of his territories, the Colony of Georgia, which was considered to belong to Great Britain, General Oglethorpe was authorised to raise a regiment of six companies of 100 men each, for the defence of the settlement. The colonies of Georgia and Carolina had been named from King George II., and his consort Queen Caroline. [46] Cape Breton was restored to the French after the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. It was retaken in 1758 by Admiral Boscawen and General Sir Jeffery Amherst, and finally ceded to Great Britain at the peace of 1763.