1st. In Barbadoes, both in the end of 1795, and in the beginning of 1796, the only disease which prevailed was typhus. The 88th regiment was healthy at St Lucia, and continued pretty healthy at Grenada for three months after their arrival there, or as long as they remained to the windward side of the island. This was likewise the case with the 10th, 25th, and other regiments. It was only after our return to St George’s and to Richmond Hill, after we had communication with the 68th regiment, and the general hospitals, where the yellow fever had for many months prevailed, that it appeared in the 38th, and in the other corps. 2d. Before the appearance of this fever in the 88th, as well as in other corps, dysentery and intermittents prevailed most. 3d. On the 12th of July, 1796, a detachment of the 88th regiment was embarked at Grenada, in the Betsy transport, for England. We embarked one hundred and forty, and I was most particularly careful not to take any man on board with the slightest appearance of illness. Every precaution which regarded cleanliness, ventilation, or fumigation, was adopted. The remains of the 8th, 10th, 25th, and other regiments, were at the same time embarked, at Grenada, for England. 4th. From the time we sailed from Grenada, on the 19th of July to the 5th of August, seven days after we sailed from Tortola, (where we had touched for water) no case of this fever appeared in the Betsy. The other corps, which left Grenada along with us, had not been so fortunate. The 8th, 10th, and 25th regiments, all of them suffered severely on the passage from Grenada to Tortola; the 8th particularly. This corps, besides the loss of many non-commissioned officers, in this short passage, lost every officer on board, except the surgeon in second, and major and captain Armstrong; and these two gentlemen were ill of the yellow fever on coming into Tortola. I was requested to go on board to visit them, but the request was opposed by all the officers on board the Betsy, as well those of the ship as by the officers of the 88th regiment on board. So very much were all impressed with an opinion of the fatally infectious nature of this fever, that they remonstrated with me, and told me, that the ship and the regiment were now perfectly free from this fever; but that, by my going to see the 8th, I should certainly bring the fever into the Betsy. However, a second message having come for me to visit captain and major Armstrong, I instantly accompanied the messenger on board. From seeing the state of their transport, I immediately ordered major and captain Armstrong on shore, and accompanied them to the hotel. Here we found that the prejudices in the Betsy transport prevailed in the island of Tortola. The doors of the hotel were shut against the yellow fever, and it required a very _forcible_ remonstrance to persuade them to admit these two officers, who, however, both of them, died the next day in the hotel.