────────────────────┬──── Lt.-Col. Commt. │ 1 ────────────────────┼──── Lieut.-Colonel. │ 1 ────────────────────┼──── Majors. │ 3 ────────────────────┼──── Captains. │ 10 ────────────────────┼──── Capt.-Lieutenants. │ 7 ────────────────────┼──── Lieutenants. │ 45 ────────────────────┼──── Lieut.-Fireworkers. │ 21 ────────────────────┼──── Major of Brigade. │ 1 ────────────────────┼──── Aide-de-Camp. │ 1 ────────────────────┼──── Adjutants. │ 2 ────────────────────┼──── Quarter-Masters. │ 2 ────────────────────┼──── Head Surgeon. │ 1 ────────────────────┼──── Surgeons. │ 2 ────────────────────┼──── Assist.-Surgeons. │ 6 ────────────────────┼──── Paymaster. │ 1 ────────────────────┴──── The staff and artificers of the field-train will be referred to shortly, when another formation of the corps renders it necessary to advert to the subject. In the above formation we find the great error which has pervaded the service ever since—the supposition that companies of Native do not require as many officers as companies of European artillery; and while the establishment of officers of the latter was fixed at a proportion which shews that the wants of the branch were then better understood than they have been in later times, the former was left ridiculously unprovided with officers. The officers of a company of artillery should be proportioned to the number of guns it is intended to man. No officer can do justice to more than two pieces; and as the companies were then adapted to eight field-pieces, four officers, with a fifth to command the whole, is the number which ought to have been _present_ in the field. On this subject, however, it will be necessary to dwell more, as the successive changes pass under review. CHAPTER II.