"Upon the breaking up of this army, I perform a most satisfactory duty in reporting to your Lordship my sense of the conduct and merit of Lieutenant-General William Clinton, and of the troops under his command since they have been employed in the Peninsula. Circumstances have not enabled those troops to have so brilliant a share in the operations of the war as their brother-officers and soldiers on this side of the Peninsula; but they have not been less usefully employed; their conduct, when engaged with the enemy, has always been meritorious; and I have had every reason to be satisfied with the General Officer commanding, and with them."
The SIXTY-SEVENTH withdrew from Barcelona, marched to Tarragona, and embarked at that port on the 24th of April for Gibraltar, where they arrived on the 4th of May.
1815
Peace was of short duration. The return of Bonaparte to France, and his enthusiastic reception at Paris, caused Louis XVIII. to retire to Ghent. The Allied Powers, however, refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of Napoleon, and he was obliged to trust once more to the chances of war. The campaign was brief; totally defeated in the celebrated battle of Waterloo, on the 18th of June, 1815, Bonaparte was subsequently compelled to surrender himself a prisoner to Captain Maitland, commanding the Bellerophon ship of war; and the island of St. Helena was afterwards appointed for his future residence.
On the 6th of April, 1815, the second battalion of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment received the royal authority to bear on its colours and appointments the word "Peninsula," in commemoration of its services in Spain.
1817
During this period the SIXTY-SEVENTH remained at Gibraltar, from which station the battalion embarked for England, on the 25th of March, 1817, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel H. P. Davison, and arrived at Chatham on the 14th and 15th of May following.
All apprehensions that the peace of Europe would be disturbed having ceased, the Government decided on making certain reductions in the army, and the second battalion of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment was disbanded at Canterbury on the 25th of May, 1817.