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manding officers, collectively and 
individually, previous to debark. 
ation ; and through their means, 
care should aiso be taken to instil 
into their men, that all our success 
willdepend upon their exact atten. 
tion, aé the moment, to the orders 
they receive. Next to compactness, 
the attention of all officers and non- 
commissioned officers will be requir- 
ed in endeavouring to preserve cool. 
ness and steadiness while firing at, 
or under the fire of an enemy, and 
to 'prevent, by every means in their 
power, an unnecessary waste of 
ammunition ; a fault, which young 
Soldiers are too apt to fall into: 
sometimes a fire is opened upon an 
imaginary enemy, the consequence 
of an excessive anxiety and eager- 
ness ; ittherefore evidently requires 
much collectedness and attention in 
an officer at the head of a company, 
to prevent such an error. 
It must be well recollected by 
officers in command of companies, 
that whatever accident may separate 
the companies of a battalion from 
each other, no circumstance should 
arise to make a separation of a 
company, as it must always be kept 
compact, as already mentioned. 
Lieut.-col. M‘Leod most earnestly 
entreats all officers commanding 
companies, not to permit their 
attention or eyes to be taken for 
ane moment from their companies, 
as upon their unremitting exertions 
in preserving compactness and com- 
posure, together with the effect of 
their own example, in an energetic 
and implicit obedience to all orders 
they receive from superior officers, 
will depend the rendering in any 
respect effectual, the natural spirit 
and ardour which now influences 
every rank and individual in the 
battalion. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
While the battalion is in moves 
ment, major Stewart will direct his 
attention to, and guide the conduct 
of, the three rear companies of the « 
battalion: while formed in line, the 
three left-hand companies will, ina 
similar way, be his charge, The 
serj. major will constantly attend 
him to circulate his orders. 
Major Macdonell will, in a simi. 
Jar manner, take charge of the 
three central companies: assistant 
Serj. major Cooper #Fill constantly 
attend him for the same purpose; 
lieut..col. M‘Leod proposing to 
guide the four leading companies in 
column of march,or right hand com- 
panies, while formed in line. 
The men are to land and march 
with their spats over their hese, to 
preserve the latter. 
If the battalion should be ordered 
to disembark with cooked provi. 
sions, the necessaries must be some- 
how -put up in the inside of the 
blanket. Such magazines as havo 
not yet been fixed on, to be care. 
fully put into the haversack : it is 
hoped that officers are now. aware 
of the value of every rownd of 
ammunition, and that they have 
taken every precaution to instil the 
same principle into every individual 
man in their companies. 
Licut-col. M‘Leod is most proud 
to find, that the disposition of all the 
officers and non-commissioned offi- 
cers is such, as to produce in his 
mind a well-grounded expectation 
that, when an Opportunity offers, 
their zeal and gallantry will be pub. 
licly established and confirmed, f 
* It must be recollected by all, that 
the 2nd battalion of the 78th regi- 
ment, has yet its fame in the field to 
establish, and by it to support, in its 
fullest extent, the well-earned repu- 
tation of its elder battalion. Let every 
individual 
