“General Orders.
“Head-Quarters,
“Choultry Plain, 24th September 1798.
“In taking leave of Lieut.-Colonel Burne, the officers, and men of His Majesty’s Thirty-sixth regiment, the Commander-in-Chief cannot refrain from expressing his sincere regret at losing from under his command a corps so eminently distinguished for important services in the field, and for discipline, order, and regularity, in every situation. Of a regiment whose merits are so well known, it is unnecessary to say much: their gallant exertions will receive their best reward in the applause and gratitude of their country.
“The Commander-in-Chief cannot more strongly evince his high opinion of this corps than by exhorting the men, wherever their King and Country may hereafter require their services, to make it their first care to preserve unblemished the name and reputation they have acquired in the Thirty-sixth regiment.
(Signed) “Keith Young,
“Acting Deputy Adjutant General.”
Copy of an Order issued by the Governor in Council upon the Thirty-sixth regiment quitting Madras for Great Britain.
“Madras, 14th October 1798.
“The remainder of His Majesty’s Thirty-sixth regiment is to embark from the North Glacis at six o’clock to-morrow morning for Europe, in the ships under despatch, according to the distribution they have received from the Deputy Adjutant General.
“The occasion cannot fail to recall the memory of those glorious and important services which have been rendered by this gallant corps to the British Empire in India; services for which the Right Honorable the President in Council offers the warmest thanks of this Government to Lieut.-Colonel Burne, the officers, and men of the regiment.