[14] Earl Cornwallis's despatch.
[15] The following non-commissioned officers were rewarded with commissions at the recommendation of Prince Edward during the period His Royal Highness commanded the regiment in North America:—
1795 Serjeant Walter Beavan, Ensign in the Nova Scotia Fencibles.
1796 Serjeant-Major Joseph Parkes, Quarter-Master in the Royal Fusiliers.
—— Serjeant Christopher Taylor, Lieutenant in ditto.
—— Quarter-Master Serjeant John Opinslaw, Ensign in the Invalids.
—— Serjeant James Colledge, Ensign in St. John's Island Provincials.
1797 Serjeant James Turner, Ensign 31st Regiment.
—— Serjeant-Major Frederick Plansker, Ensign in the Fencibles.
1802 Serjeant-Major John Robertson, Ensign in the first, or the royal regiment.
[16] The following non-commissioned officers were rewarded with commissions:—
1804 Serjeant Francis Gilliman, Quarter-Master, Nova Scotia Fencibles.
1805 Serjeant-Major George Galbraith, Ensign and Adjutant, First Royal Foot.
—— Quarter-Master-Serjeant John Hogan, Quarter-Master, Seventh Royal Fusiliers.
[17] A General Order was issued to the army on the 18th January, 1810 (No. 182), by direction of the Commander-in-Chief, containing the substance of the following General Order, issued in North America, on this subject:—
"General Order. Quebec, 4th October, 1809.
"The Commander of the Forces has lately had occasion to see in a Halifax newspaper a copy of an address presented by the serjeants of the 1st battalion Royal Fusiliers to Captain Orr, on that officer relinquishing the Adjutancy in consequence of being promoted to a company. So novel a circumstance could not fail to draw the attention of His Excellency, it being the first of the kind that has come to his knowledge during the forty-six years that he has been in the service; and as the first instance has thus (so far as he is aware, at least) occurred on the part of the army with the charge of which the King has been pleased to intrust him, he feels himself called on by every obligation of duty to His Majesty and the service to bear his testimony against it by a public expression of disapprobation.
"His Excellency does not mean in this instance to ascribe any improper motive to the serjeants. He has no doubt that their sole view was to express their regard and gratitude towards an officer who, in the intimate connexion that had officially subsisted between them, had very commendably conducted himself with kindness to them without departing from that strictness of discipline which was indispensable to the discharge of his duty.
"But while His Excellency thus does justice to the intention of the serjeants of the Royal Fusiliers, he desires at the same time very seriously to observe to them, that in presuming to meet, in order to deliberate on the conduct of their superior officer, they have in fact, however unintentionally, been guilty of an act of great insubordination.