During these campaigns the following officers lost their lives, either in action or from disease:—Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Deare, killed; Captains Smith and Sampson; Lieutenants Macpherson and Buchan, killed. Lieutenants Horsborough, Nash, and Jones, and several others, were forced to seek health in a sea-voyage. The services of the native troops, including the artillery lascars, on this occasion, were rewarded by a medal, and six months’ batta was given to all the officers and troops. [Illustration] ────────────────────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬──── │1788│1789│1790│1791│1792│1793│1794│1795 ────────────────────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼──── Strength on 1st Nov.│ 969│ 980│1176│1155│1162│1083│ 844│ 755 ────────────────────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼──── Died │ 51│ 80│ 133│ 146│ 102│ 83│ 65│ 65 Deserted │ 3│ 6│ 7│ 11│ 14│ 10│ 10│ 8 Discharged │ 25│ 30│ 9│ 7│ 10│ 11│ 5│ 7 Invalided │ 26│ 15│ 21│ 25│ 35│ 31│ 15│ 37 ────────────────────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼──── Total │ 105│ 131│ 170│ 189│ 161│ 135│ 95│ 117 ────────────────────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴──── It will not be uninteresting at this period to examine the casualties of the regiment, with a view to ascertaining the relative health enjoyed in those days and at present: fortunately, the long rolls of the regiment are tolerably perfect at this period, and the following is an abstract, giving an average of 138 casualties per annum to a strength of 1,016, or about 13 per cent. per annum,—almost the same proportion of casualties as have taken place from the same causes during the last three years: their amount is 368, and the strength of the regiment in Europeans maybe taken as 3,000. The average, however, of a longer period will be more favourable to modern times, as the losses during the Afghanistan war, the destruction of the 1st troop, and the mortality from disease at Sukkhur, all tend to swell these years beyond their predecessors; but this subject will be adverted to hereafter, when abstracts of longer periods have been made. In August, 1793, five companies of artillery, the 2nd and 4th of 1st battalion, the 1st of 2nd battalion, and the 4th and 5th of 3rd battalion, under command of Major Bruce, sailed for the coast, forming part of an expedition against Pondicherry. The troops do not appear to have been employed, and the artillery returned in October. The allowances of officers of similar rank and in similar commands, at this time and fifty years later, form a contrast much in favour of the liberality of the old scale.