cis Costello July 1, 1795
William Powell Aug. 24, 1795
A.A. Nunn Feb. 2, 1797 November 17, 1795.
Robert Brown June 1, 1797 September 30, 1796.
James Maitland July 23, 1797
James Stewart July 24, 1797
Lieuts. William Graham Nov. 30, 1796
James Cassidy Dec. 1, 1796
-- M'Shee Dec. 2, 1796
-- Lightfoot Dec. 3, 1796
-- M'Callum Dec. 4, 1796
-- Froggart Dec. 5, 1796
-- M'Lean Dec. 6, 1796
John Egan Dec. 8, 1796
James Reed Dec. 9, 1796
W.J. Speed Jan. 11, 1797
-- Connor March 1, 1797
William Reid March 2, 1796
Thomas Byrne March 3, 1796
J.C. Roberts July 1, 1796
John C. M'Kay July 2, 1796
Ensigns Donald M'Grace July 1, 1795
-- Dalton Sept. 1, 1795
C.B. Darley Sept. 9, 1795
-- Horsford July 1, 1797
David M'William July 2, 1797
Morgan O'Meara July 3, 1797
Charles Marraud July 4, 1797
Niel Campbell July 5, 1797
Adjutant Thomas Holbrooke April 17, 1796
Qtrmastr. -- M'William Nov. 18, 1795
Surgeon John Lindsay Dec. 25, 1796

During the active operations of the year 1796 the West India colonists
had offered no objection to the scheme of raising five new black
regiments, but, in 1797, when the question of providing for them was
brought before the various Legislatures, the plan met with the most
determined opposition. When, on the 17th of January, Governor Ricketts
communicated it to the House of Assembly in Barbados, and requested the
concurrence of that House, the Speaker, Sir John Gay Alleyne,
immediately rose and moved:

"That the design of five regiments, etc. (as expressed in the message),
will, as far as such a design is likely to affect this island, prove
rather the means of its destruction than its defence."

This resolution was carried, with two others, without a dissenting
voice.

"The Assembly of Jamaica was no less decided and unanimous in its
opposition to the measure. It refused