GENERAL ORDERS.

Head Quarters, Marmorice,

II. M. S. Kent, February 16th, 1801..

SUCH officers horses as were not embarked on

the 14th instant, will be on the beach ready for embarkation to-morrow morning, at eight o'clock precisely. Officers will take notice, that after to-morrow no horses will be embarked.

The horses which have arrived for the cavalry since the last allotment are distributed as follows:

These horses will be on the beach ready for embarkation to-morrow morning, at seven o'clock.

The horses will receive the following rations while on board ship, viz. 5lb. of barley, 5lb. of straw, and three gallons of water. As it has been impossible to supply all the horse vessels with weights and measures, the non-commissioned officers will use the Turkish steelyards, which they will find on board, taking notice, that the Turkish Ocque is equal to lb. 110z. English; so that the rations for horses at present established will be two Ocques of barley and three Ocques of straw nearly.

Majors of brigade are responsible that a copy of this order, as well as of the 6th instant, is given to each of the non-commissioned officers, in charge of the forage and provisions on board the different horse ships.

As nearly as circumstances will permit, the disembarkation of the army will take place in the following order.

1st. The infantry of the reserve, with ten pieces of light artillery. The brigade of Guards.

The remainder of the first line, with six additional pieces of light artillery.

2d. The infantry of the second line.

3d. The mounted detachments of cavalry of the reserve and Brigadier Finch's brigade.

4th. The

4th. The dismounted part of the same brigade.

5th. The pioneers of the army, the horse detachment of the royal artillery, and such additional pieces of ordnance and ammunition as may be wanted.

When the troops are ordered to land, the men are to put into the flat boats as expeditiously as possible, but without hurry or disorder; they are to sit down in the boats, and in rowing to the shore, the strictest silence to be observed; the troops are positively ordered not to load, till formed on the beach; the formation is to be effected as soon as possible, the men are to fall in, in line opposite to where they land; nor is any individual or body of men, in conceiving themselves displaced, to attempt to regain their situation by closing to either flank, till ordered so to do by the general officer on whom they depend, or the senior officer present on the spot.

The troops are to land with sixty rounds of ammunition and two spare flints per man; the ammunition which cannot be contained in the pouches to be carefully put in the packs. Three days bread and three days pork, ready cooked, is to be carried by officers and men; the same quantity is to be landed to the troops; it is not however to be delivered out, but carried in kegs, and put under charge of the quarter-master of each regiment, with a party sufficient for the purpose; each man will carry his canteen filled with water.

Three days barley will be carried for the horses of the cavalry, and of the staff and field officers.

The staff and field officers must provide themselves with forage sacks previous to the fleet sailing from this.

The men will carry their intrenching tools and the proportion of necessaries specified in the orders 15th August last, viz. two shirts, one pair of shoes, two pair of socks or stockings, neatly made up in their packs or knapsacks, their camp kettles and blankets. Regiments having both blankets and great coats, will leave the latter on board.

It is absolutely necessary that the officers should bring on shore in the first instance such articles only as they can carry themselves. Officers servants are not only on all occasions of service to be present under arms with the corps to which they belong; they are to carry no more than any other soldier, and are to mount all piquets and guards

with

with their masters. The smallest number of bâtmen possible will be permitted: mounted officers alone are entitled to them.

The music, drummers, and men least fit for actual service, are to be selected for all regimental duties, not purely military; and officers commanding corps will be held strictly responsible for their being at all times, and in every situation, in the most effective state.

A proportion of the general hospital staff must be attached in the first instance to each brigade, and will be allowed such orderlies as are absolutely necessary from the brigade. Regimental surgeons are to be allowed one orderly each to carry the field case of instruments.

The spare arms, tents, and horse appointments of the dismounted cavalry, and every article of spare baggage, are to be left in charge of a careful non-commissioned officer on board of each ship.

After the troops have landed, the sick of such regiments as are embarked in transports, are to be collected into one of the vessels occupied by the corps, under the care of the assistant surgeon, who will, as soon as possible, report himself and the state of the men under his charge to the inspector general of hospitals on board H. M. S. Niger. In case of there being only one medical officer present with any regiment thus situated, this duty must be assigned to a careful non-commissioned officer.

Regiments embarked in men of war will leave the sick under the care of the surgeon of the ship, who will be entitled to the allowance established in such cases. If necessary, a small proportion of orderly men may be left with the sick, to be selected from the convalescent men. Regiments that have women will employ nurses in lieu of orderly men. The women are positively prohibited from landing, on any pretence whatever, until the commanding officers of corps have obtained the Commander in Chief's express permission for that purpose.

More detailed instructions, relative to the artillery, engineers, and commissariat, will be communicated to the respective officers at the head of each of those departments.

In the first instance, the troops will not have it in their power to bring forward their tents, but the ground on which the army, or any considerable detachment of it halts, must be taken up regularly, the

usual guards and picquets mounted, and patroles sent out in different directions.

Every officer occupying a post, of whatever nature, will esteem it his first duty to patrole in the neighbourhood, in order to ascertain the nature of the country, the avenues that lead to it, and the means of strengthening it.

All horses, mules, or camels, taken or found, are to be taken as soon as possible to the commissary general for the public service, nor is any individual to purchase or appropriate any horse, mule, or camel, until permission is given.

The Commander in Chief has had much satisfaction in observing the behaviour of the troops in their transactions with the inhabitants during the stay of the army at Marmorice; he trusts that a continuation of the same regular conduct will merit that approbation which he will at all times be anxious to bestow upon them; every instance of an opposite conduct will be punished in a most exemplary manner.

It will be the duty of officers of every rank to point out to the soldiers the evils they will expose themselves to, by a neglect of discipline and good conduct.

The manners, customs, and religious opinions of the inhabitants are to be most rigidly respected, and the severest punishment will await those who give just cause of offence in those particulars.

Straggling from camp, or lagging behind on a march, are to be strictly prohibited, and officers are enjoined to prevent it. Plundering and marauding will expose the offenders to suffer immediate death.

Officers are strictly enjoined to employ every means, and use every precaution in their power, for the preservation of the health of the troops under their command.

The utmost vigilance will be expected from officers in situations of active duty, whether at the out-posts, or more immediately with the

army.

Reports to head quarters, or to the general officers on whom they depend, must be made with as little delay as possible, but without precipitation, and if possible not till the subject of them has been thoroughly examined.

The

The circumstances under which it is probable the army will be called upon to act, will require that the exertion of every individual should concur to enforce the most exact discipline, the most rigid œconomy in the consumption of provisions, fuel and water, and to diminish, as much as possible, the labour of the soldier: with these objects before them, so important and so essential to the success of the expedition, the Commander in Chief is confident that officers will not repine at any temporary inconvenience they may feel, or regret any privation they may undergo, but will, on the contrary, animate by their example the soldiers under their command to a similar conduct.

GENERAL ORDERS.

Head Quarters, Marmorice,

H. M. S. Kent, February 19th, 1801.

THE general officers will be pleased to call to their recollection the regulations relative to the field duties of the army of date 20th August, 1799, and enforce their respective brigades to a due observance of them. The duties of the army will be done as much as possible by regiments. The corps who are next in tour of duty will consider themselves liable to be called upon, to support in the first instance those actually on duty; they will in general therefore not be detached.

The nature of the duties will depend upon the circumstances under which the army may be placed.

On the arrival of the army however on the ground, where it is to encamp, the general officers commanding brigades will be responsible that the regimental quarter and rear guards are immediately mounted, that patroles are sent out in the neighbourhood of their respective encampments, to ascertain the nature of the ground, and that the number of officers and men warned for public duty are paraded, and ready to march to their respective posts as soon as possible; they will themselves patrole in the neighbourhood of the ground they occupy, and make a report thereupon to head quarters.

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