On Home Stations 29 Troops and Companies. In Portugal 1 Company. In Canada 4 Companies. At Cape of Good Hope 2 Companies. At Gibraltar 5 Companies. In East Indies 2 Companies (belonging to no Battalions). In Jamaica 4 Companies. In Newfoundland 1 Company. In Nova Scotia and Cape Breton 2 Companies. In the West Indies (exclusive 8 Companies. of Jamaica). Of these companies, as has already been stated, many men were employed on board the bomb vessels. The companies stationed at the Cape of Good Hope deserve special notice at this time, as also subsequently did those at Gibraltar, for their loyalty at a time of mutiny among the other forces on [Sidenote: D. A. General, R.A., 4 Feb. 1798, and Colonel Cleaveland’s MS. Notes.] the station. On the 4th February, 1798, the following letter was published to the Regiment by Colonel Macleod, having been transmitted to him by order of Major-General Dundas, commanding the troops at the Cape of Good Hope, who had in the first instance addressed it to Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke, who commanded the Royal Artillery on that station:-- “Castle of Good Hope, “15 November, 1797. “SIR, “The Corps of Artillery having had the greatest part of the extraordinary duty which the late disturbances on board the fleet have occasioned, as their alacrity in discharging their duty was no less conspicuous than on former occasions, when the Artillery have been called upon to act, I am directed by Major-General Dundas to express his entire approbation of their conduct,--honourable to themselves and to the Service. “I have, &c., (Signed) “P. ABERCROMBIE, “Major of Brigade.”