British 2,114 French Royalists 1,542 Spaniards 6,840 Neapolitans 4,832 Sardinians 1,584 ------ 16,912 ------ So exacting was the service, and so unhealthy the season (it cost Bonaparte a sharp attack of malarial fever), that the number fit for duty did not exceed 12,000. It is interesting to compare these figures with the estimate of Pitt which is in the Pitt MSS. (No. 196). _September 16._ Force which it is supposed may be collected at Toulon by the end of October or early in November: Rank and File. British Marines 1,500 " flank companies from Gibraltar 600 " " " " Ireland 2,000[250] " Two battalions from Flanders (to be replaced by detachments from the Guards) 1,200 " Cavalry from Ireland 900 Hessians from Flanders (to be replaced by the additional corps ordered) 5,000 Spanish (suppose) 3,000 Neapolitan 6,000 Sardinian 9,000 Austrian 5,000 ------ Total 33,200 [_sic_--really 34,200.] This Force may be estimated (allowing for some deduction) at 30,000 men. To this may possibly be added some Force from Corsica, and probably early in the spring, an additional body of 11,000 Sardinians, perhaps also of 10,000 Austrians, and some troops of Baden from hence. Possibly also a body of Swiss, and in the course of the next summer (if the expedition to the West Indies is successful) about 4,000 or 5,000 British on their return from the Islands. If 10,000, or 12,000, Swiss can be secured, it seems not unreasonable to expect that, by the beginning of next year, there may be an army in the South of France of near 60,000 men.