The Rifle Corps was immediately re-formed, principally from detachments of fencible regiments serving in Ireland, and I presume also, on the return of the expedition, from the men originally selected as Riflemen. These detachments began to assemble at Blatchington in Sussex, near Lewes, about the end of August, and continued to join during the autumn. The whole of the officers who had been attached to the experimental corps were appointed to it; their commissions being ante-dated, as I have observed, to August 25, the anniversary of which has been since observed as the foundation-day of the Regiment. A second lieutenant-colonel and two majors were appointed, and some others were added to complete the Corps to eight companies, with a captain and two subalterns to each. The establishment was, therefore, on December 25, returned as follows: Colonel 1 Lieut.-Colonels 2 Majors 2 Captains 8 First Lieutenants 8 Second Lieutenants 8 Paymaster 1 Adjutant 1 Quarter-Master 1 Surgeon 1 Assistant Surgeon 1 Staff-Sergeants 5 Sergeants 40 Buglers 18 Corporals 40 Privates 760 The officers on its formation were: _Colonel._ COOTE MANNINGHAM. _Lieutenant-Colonels._ THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM STEWART. ALEXANDER HOUSTON. _Majors._ GEORGE CALLANDER. HAMLET WADE. _Captains._ ROBERT TRAVERS. THOMAS SIDNEY BECKWITH. CORNELIUS CUYLER. TIMOTHY HAMILTON. THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GARDNER. ALEXANDER STEWART. HENRY SHEPHERD. _Captain-Lieutenant._ ALEXANDER D. CAMERON. _First Lieutenants._ BLOIS LYNCH. JOHN ROSS. J. A. GRANT. EDWARD BEDWELL LAW. JOHN STUART. HENRY POWELL. PETER O’HARE. WILLIAM COTTER. THOMAS STIRLING EDMONSTON. JOHN CAMERON. ROBERT DUNCAN. ---- DOUGLAS. ALEXANDER CLARKE. L. H. BENNET. NIEL CAMPBELL. _Second Lieutenants._ HENRY GOODE. PATRICK TURNER. JAMES MACDONALD. SAMUEL MITCHEL. THOMAS BRERETON. GEORGE ELDER. LOFTUS GRAY. JAMES PENDERGAST. JOHN JENKINS. JOHN BURTON. _Paymaster._ JAMES INNES. _Adjutant._ J. A. GRANT. _Quarter-Master._ DONALD MACKAY. The Regiment, as it has existed since, and as it has won lasting renown in so many fields, as ‘a Corps of Riflemen,’ ‘the Rifle Corps,’[17] ‘the 95th,’ and ‘the Rifle Brigade,’ was then and thus organised under Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart. For though Manningham was the colonel, and justly shares the honour of its formation, he seems seldom to have been present with it; for he was equerry to George III., and often at Court.