1 Sergeant-major. 10 Sergeants. 10 Corporals. 4 Drummers. 38 Masons. 33 Smiths. 54 Carpenters. 21 Sawyers. 32 Miners. 6 Wheelers. 5 File-cutters. 4 Nailors. 3 Gardeners. 7 Lime-burners. 3 Coopers. 1 Painter. 1 Collar-maker. 1 Brazier. ___ Total 234 As far as circumstances permitted, the strength of the company was never allowed to sink beneath its establishment, for whenever a casualty occurred, it was immediately filled up. Not only was the Chief Engineer anxious on this point, but the Governor and Lieut.-Governor felt equal concern, and were ready to give effect to any measure which should yield the required result. If, at Gibraltar, the recruiting failed from the want of the proper classes of mechanics to join the company, the Duke of Richmond found means in England and Scotland to meet the case. His Grace was both an admirer and an advocate of the military system of carrying on the works, and took peculiar interest in the recruiting, even to superintending the service, and acting in some cases as the recruiting sergeant. Hence the company, seldom short of its complement of men, invariably afforded a force of more than 220 non-commissioned officers and artificers to be employed constantly in restoring the fortifications, &c.: the sick at this period averaged about eight a day.