[148]. Subsequently increased to 5s. 7d. a-day, and after seven years' service to 6s. 7d. a-day.
[149]. Holding comparative station with corporals of the line, according to date of promotion.
[150]. This may be regarded as a favourable view of the case. Sir John Jones states, “Each company was commanded for the moment by the senior Captain of engineers, who might happen to be placed on duty wherever the company might be; so that it was not unfrequent for a company to be commanded by five or six captains in as many months.”—Journal of Sieges, ii. note 38, p. 389, 2nd edit.
[151]. Pasley’s ‘Elementary Fortification,’ note a, p. iii.
[152]. Ibid., note F, p. xvii.
[153]. In the earlier years of his appointment he was much at Woolwich, and personally superintended the affairs of the corps; but for some years prior to the new organization, his duties in London seldom permitted him to visit the head-quarters.
[154]. Colonel Phipps was never present with the corps. As Quartermaster, he performed his duties in London. In consideration of his relinquishing the Quartermastership, and also for his good services, he was granted by His Majesty an allowance of 10s. a-day.—‘Accounts of Ordnance, House of Commons,’ 1816, p. 31.
[155]. ‘London Gazette,’ 20th to 24th January, 1807.
[156]. ‘United Service Journal,’ ii., 1843, p. 110. ‘Jones’s Sieges,’ ii., note 38, p. 389, 2nd edit.
[157]. In the absence, on foreign duty, of Captain J. T. Jones, from July, 1808, to January, 1809, Sub-Lieutenant John Eaves performed the duties of adjutant to the corps with credit and efficiency.