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a company of grenadiers, and the mattrosses with their musquets as a 
battalion, in which manner they pass’d in review. 
During this campaign a quarter guard of the regiment of artillery, 
commanded by a subaltern (as usual in the infantry), was first mounted, and 
encamp’d opposite the Flag Gun and Kettle Drum,—a detachment from the 
infantry commanded by a captain, with from sixty to an hundred men were 
always mounted upon the park of artillery, and encamp’d opposite the centre 
of the park, being relieved every forty-eight hours. 
1748 January 28th. On Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Pattison and Major 
Jonathan Lewis retiring from the regiment on account of their old 
age and infirmities (who were succeeded by Lieut.-Colonel Belford and 
Major Borgard Mitchelson) the King signed a warrant authorising the 
Master-General to make a provision of full pay for them: the warrant 
begins thus, “ Whereas the four field officers of the Eoyal Eegiment of 
“ Artillery, are the Master-General of our ordnance, Colonel Commander-in- 
“ Chief of the said Eegiment, a Colonel of Artillery Colonel Commandant of 
“ the same, a Lieut.-Colonel and a Major.” 
February 11th. The King sign’d a warrant directing that from henceforth, 
when any vacancy or vacancies of a matross or matrosses shall happen in any 
of the companies of the Eoyal Eegiment of Artillery, the said vacancy or 
vacancies shall be continued until the money arising therefrom shall be 
sufficient to procure a proper recruit or recruits, and no other allowances 
shall be made for that purpose. 
Before the army took the field this year—the gunners field staffs, powder 
horns with slings and swords, and the mattrosses musquets were laid aside, 
and both these stations were arm’d with carbines and bayonets; all the 
non-commissioned officers still continued to have halberts. 
Black spatterdashes were likewise introduced about this time in the 
regiment, and for the first time in any British corps. 
The same distribution and establishment of the companies last mentioned 
continued without any material variation, till the latter end of this year, 
when upon the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle and the return of the British troops 
from Flanders; three entire companies, officers included were reduced, who 
afterwards came into their former ranks in the regiment as vacancies 
happen’d; the junior of these came into full pay in 1753. 
During the war from 1742 to 1748 Flanders was the great school for 
military discipline, particularly after the Duke of Cumberland was appointed 
in 1745, captain-general and commander-in-chief of the British troops, and 
took the command of the allied army. 
In 1742 and 1743 the British troops there consisted of nineteen battalions 
and nineteen squadrons, with twenty-four heavy 3-prs. 
In 1744 there were twenty-two battalions and twenty-nine squadrons 
with the allied army, with ten heavy 6-prs., thirty heavy 3-prs., and four 
8-in. howitzers. 
In 1745 the British troops in Flanders consisted of twenty-seven battalions 
and twenty-six squadrons, ten heavy 6-prs., twenty-seven heavy 3-prs., 
six l|-prs., and four 8-in. howitzers. 
In 1746 there were no more in Flanders than seven battalions and nine 
squadrons, with fourteen heavy 3-prs. for the battalions. 
