1801.
The regiment, early in the year 1801, marched from Dundalk to Dublin, and occupied the barracks in the Palatine Square. On the 24th of April, Lieut.-Colonel Pack joined, and assumed the command of the regiment.
1802.
In March, 1802, in which month the Peace of Amiens was concluded, the regiment proceeded from Dublin, and was quartered in the county of Wicklow. The corps was so divided, that at Arklow, the head-quarters, there were only two companies. In this situation it continued for the remainder of the year.
1803.
The regiment proceeded in March, 1803, in three divisions, to Ballinasloe, where it remained for a few days, and afterwards marched to Loughrea.
Major-General Sir John Francis Cradock, K.B., was appointed Colonel of the Seventy-first Highlanders on the 6th of August, 1803, in succession to General the Honourable William Gordon, who was removed to the Twenty-first Royal North British Fusiliers.
The regiment continued at Loughrea, but the light company was detached to Limerick to join a light battalion which was being formed at that place. Captain Sinclair died during this year, and the officers of the regiment caused a stone to be erected over his grave bearing the following inscription:—
“To the memory of Captain John Sinclair, this stone was caused to be placed by his brother officers of the Seventy-first Regiment, as a testimony of the high esteem they held him in as an officer, as well as the sincere love they bore him as a friend. Twenty-six years spent in zealous and faithful discharge of his duty justly entitled him to the character of the one, and the many estimable qualities of the heart gave him no less claim to the other; he died at the age of 41, in the year of our Lord 1803, resigning only with his breath that commission which His Gracious Majesty had pleased to bestow.”
1804.