"TWENTY-SECOND Regiment!
"You well know why I send you to Bombay, and you also know how much I dislike doing so. But nothing shall stand in the way of your health and well-being, that I have the power to remove. Cut up by Disease and by Battle, you require rest, that you may again join us, and add to the Laurels with which you are already decorated.
"C. J. Napier, Major-General,
Governor."
The reception of the regiment at Bombay, on the 2nd of May, was distinguished by high marks of honor, by command of the Governor, on which occasion the accompanying order was issued:—
"Bombay, Monday, 1st May, 1843.
"Garrison Orders.
"By the Honorable the Governor.—The Head-Quarters of Her Majesty's TWENTY-SECOND Regiment of Foot having arrived from Scinde, will be disembarked to-morrow morning at sunrise.
"On this occasion the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Garrison, desirous of paying every mark of honor to this distinguished Corps, will himself receive it at the Apollo Pier.
"On the landing of the first Division, a Royal Salute is to be fired from the Saluting Battery.
"The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn up in Review Order, in a convenient position, and will salute Her Majesty's TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as it passes on its way to Fort George Barracks.