During the year 1801 the regiment was stationed at Minorca. [Sidenote: 1802.] On the 27th of March 1802 a treaty of peace was signed at Amiens between the French Republic, Spain, and the Batavian Republic on the one part, and Great Britain on the other; by this treaty the Island of Minorca was restored to Spain. In August 1802 the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment returned to Cork from Minorca, marched to Galway, and occupied the barracks at that place. [Sidenote: 1803.] The conduct of Napoleon Bonaparte had occasioned hostilities to be renewed in May 1803, when the British army was augmented, and preparations were made to repel a threatened invasion by the French. The “_Army of Reserve Act_” was passed in June 1803 for raising men for home service by ballot; and numerous volunteer and yeomanry corps were formed in every part of the Kingdom. The regiment was suddenly ordered to proceed by forced marches from Galway to Dublin in July 1803, where a serious riot had occurred on the 23d of that month, when Lord Chief Justice Kilwarden, and his nephew the Rev. Richard Wolfe, were attacked in his carriage, and murdered by the rioters. [Sidenote: 1804.] On the 18th of May 1804 Napoleon was invested with the dignity of Emperor of the French; and on the 26th of May of the following year he was crowned King of Italy, at Milan. Further measures of defence were adopted by Great Britain, and the “_Additional Force Act_” was passed on the 29th of June 1804, by which a second battalion was added to the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment, to be formed of men raised in the county of Durham for limited service; the second battalion was placed on the establishment of the army from the 25th of December following. On the 12th of December 1804 the Court of Spain issued a declaration of war against England, in consequence of the capture of some frigates off Cadiz, which had been intercepted on their way to France with cargoes of treasure for the use of Napoleon, Spain having agreed to furnish a powerful aid to that ruler. During the year 1804 the first battalion of the regiment continued in garrison at Dublin. [Sidenote: 1805.] On the 3d of August 1805 the first battalion of the regiment marched from Dublin, having been selected to form part of the army under Lieut.-General Lord Cathcart; it encamped on the Curragh of Kildare until the 20th of September, marched from thence to Bandon, and occupied the barracks there; on the 29th of October the battalion embarked at Cork for Germany. The second battalion remained in Great Britain during 1805, and three following years. [Sidenote: 1806.]