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1745 In January, a company of gentlemen cadets was first established 
and added to the regiment. The cadets mention'd before were two 
cadet gunners and two cadet mattrosses, hitherto mustered in each 
company—the former received one shilling and fourpence, and the latter 
one shilling per diem, paid them monthly by the captains in whose 
companies they were mustered. A few of these young gentlemen, who were 
generally the sons of officers, resided at Woolwich, and attended the Royal 
Academy when they pleased; were under no command, wore no uniform, and 
were generally so young that few of them were fit to be prefer'd to com¬ 
missions. So little were these young gentlemen under any kind of order, that 
it was the business of the officer on duty in the Warren, who visited the 
Academy occasionally, to endeavour to preserve good order. 
N.B. The Royal Academy was first established in 1741 by the Duke of Montague 
then Master-General. 
The disposition of the three companies at the fixed stations of Minorca, 
Gibraltar, and Newfoundland continued the same. 
Three companies remain'd at Woolwich till August, when upon the 
taking of Cape Breton, one of these was sent to garrison Louisbourg, 
and in the month of October, the four companies in Inlanders were order'd 
home in consequence of the rebellion in Scotland, and were employ'd in 
N. and S. Britain with the several corps of troops which assembled on 
that occasion. 
A detachment of three officers and fifty men was sent from Woolwich 
in August, with a battalion of guards and the 15th Regiment, to 
strengthen the garrison of Ostend, then beseiged by Count Lowendahl, 
which held out about fourteen days. A circumstance so different from the 
present mode should not be omitted to be noticed. At the camp of the 
allied army near Brussels, on receiving the news of the taking of Cape 
Breton (or Louisbourg), the army was drawn up in order of battle and 
reviewed by the Duke of Cumberland; the park of artillery was form'd in 
great order, on a fine extensive plain near Yilvorden ; the four companies of 
artillery under arms, drawn up, two on the right and two on the left of the 
park; Colonel Pattison then lieut.-colonel. Colonel Lewis then major of the 
regiment, and Major Belford, then a captain but doing majors duty to the 
artillery in Planders, posted themselves on horseback in front of the park, 
where they saluted His Royal Highness as he pass'd, by dropping their swords; 
the other officers carrying fuzees, only took off their hats as he pass'd them. 
December 8th. Two companies with a train of artillery commanded by 
Colonel Lewis, marched from Woolwich to Binchley Common, where a corps 
of troops was to have assembled under the immediate orders of the King, 
had the rebels advanced to London as was then apprehended, but they 
retired northward from Derby, and these two companies and the train of 
artillery return'd the 11th to Woolwich. 
1740 The disposition of four companies in Minorca, Gibraltar, New¬ 
foundland, and Louisbourg, continued the same as last year, one 
company was station'd in Scotland, and five companies remain'd at 
Woolwich till after the suppression of the rebellion in April, by the victory 
of Colloden, when two of these companies were sent in June with seven 
