Lieutenant--Powell, from the 8th Foot, to be
Lieutenant of Cavalry.

August 29 Lieutenant--Powell, Lieutenant of Cavalry, to be
Captain of Cavalry.

July 11 Acting Adjutant--Connor, from Lieutenant-Colonel
McDonnel's regiment, to be Cornet.

But this idea was soon abandoned, and in 1797 the cavalry troop
disappeared.

The 1st West India Regiment (for so it was at once styled in the West
Indies, although in the Army List and the _London Gazette_, the
designation "Major-General Whyte's Regiment of Foot" was not
discontinued until February, 1798) first appears in the "Monthly Return
for the Windward, Leeward, and Caribee Islands," in September, 1795, as
follows:

A: Colonel.
B: Lieut.-Colonel.
C: Majors.
D: Captains.
E: Lieutenants.
F: Ensigns.
G: Chaplain.
H: Adjutant.
I: Quarter-Master.
J: Surgeon.
K: Mate.
L: Sergeants Present.
M: Drummers Present.
N: Present, fit for duty.
O: Sick.
P: Recruiting.
Q: Total.

+-----------------+---------+-----------------------+--+--+----------+
| | | Officers Present. | | | |
| | +-------------+---------+ | |Effective |
| | |Commissioned.| Staff. | | |Rank&File.|
| Regiments |Stations.+-------------+---------+ | +----------+
| or Corps. | |A|B|C|D|E | F|G|H|I|J|K| L| M| N|O|P| Q |
+-----------------+---------+-+-+-+-+--+--+-+-+-+-+-+--+--+--+-+-+---+
|Maj.-Gen. Whyte's|Martinico|-|-|-|3| 1| 5|-|-|1|-|-| 6| 6|43|4|4| 51|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|Brig.-Gen. Myers'|Martinico|1|-|-|2| 1| 1|-|-|1|-|-| 5| 6|41|5|5| 51|
+-----------------+---------+-+-+-+-+--+--+-+-+-+-+-+--+--|--+-+-+---+
| |Total. |1|-|-|5| 2| 6|-|-|2|-|-|11|12|84|9|9|102|
+-----------------+---------+-+-+-+-+--+--+-+-+-+-+-+--+--+--+-+-+---+

and the following note is, in the same Return, appended to the state of
the company of the "Black Carolina Corps," which was in Grenada; the
other two companies having remained in Martinique since their removal
there from St. Lucia at the end of April, 1795. "This corps has been
reformed, and fifty of the men, who were fit for service, have been
drafted into the 1st New W