In Cantonments, the Alarm-Posts of each Regi- Alarm-Posts. ment and of Brigades must be immediately fixed, the Troops must be made acquainted with the Regimental Alarm-Posts, and the Officers Commanding Regiments, with that of the Brigade.

No Officer is on any account to sleep out of Camp or Cantonments without leave.

No Non-Commissioned Officer nor Soldier is to quit Camp or Cantonment without a Pass, signed by the Commanding Officer of the Regiment, or by the Adjutant, under the authority of the Commanding Officer.

Every Encouragement is to be given to the People Marketing People. of the Country to supply the Markets, and any Soldier using them ill, or attempting to defraud them, will be punished in the most exemplary manner.

All small Parties, whether for Marketing, for Wood, Parties for Water, or Straw, are to be attended by a Non-Com- Foraging, &c. missioned Officer per Company, and if the Party ex

ceeds Eighteen Men, and is to march any distance from Camp, it must be under the command of a Subaltern Officer. On the breaking up of a Camp, no Hut or Straw is to be set fire to (without particular orders are given for that purpose), under the most severe Penalties.

Duties in

Camp.

Commanding Officers of Regiments wishing to Miscellaneous have Field-Days, or to practise their Men in firing Ball, are to ask leave, and specify the particular Time at Head-Quarters.

When Pieces cannot be drawn, the Men are to be assembled, and they are to discharge them in a safe Q 2

Place,

Place, under the inspection of the Adjutant, or other Commissioned Officer.

The Officers of Troops or Companies are daily to examine the Men's Arms and Ammunition; the latter is frequently to be exposed to the Sun and Air. Any damaged Ammunition is to be immediately replaced.

The greatest Attention is required in regard to the arrangement of the Men's Arms, which must always be kept in the most perfect Order.

The Cavalry must always have their Saddles, Bridles, and Accoutrements, ready to put on their Horses on the shortest notice.

The Troops must at all times be kept in the most perfect readiness to turn out, and it is expected, that in half an hour from the time they receive the Order to March, either in the Night or Day, the Army shall stand formed at the head of its Encampment, that the Baggage shall be packed, and the whole be prepared This State of Preparation is equally as essential in Cantonments as in Camp; and in both, the Troops must be accustomed to march without any previous notice.

to move.

Movements of Troops, or Dispositions of March, will not always be put in Orders, but will be delivered to such Persons only as they concern, nor is any one to expect more to be communicated to him than is necessary for the complete Execution of the Service required of him.

All suspicious Persons about the Camp are to be apprehended, and sent under a proper Guard to HeadQuarters.

Out

Out-Posts, advanced Piquets, and Detach

ments.

It is very desirable that the Duty of Out-Posts Light Troops to be generally should be performed by Troops especially selected for employed. this Service (with such support from the Line as may be requisite), and be under the immediate direction of some General, or other Officer, particularly appointed to that Command; but circumstances may render it necessary that this Duty should be done from the Line, in which case, the Out-Posts fall under the Command of the General Officers of the Day, unless some individual Officer is named to the Command of them.

The Duties of Out-Posts are so various, that they will usually require detailed Instructions according to circumstances; the following Directions will however apply generally, and are most strictly to be observed.

All Out-Guards march off without Trumpets Out-Guards, sounding or Drums beating. They pay no Compliments of any kind; neither do their Sentries take any complimentary notice of Officers passing near their Posts.

People.

No Guards are to presume to molest any Persons Marketing coming to Camp with Provisions, and are on ne account to exact or receive any thing for their free passage.

Any Officer, Trumpeter, or other Person who comes from the Enemy's Camp, is to be secured by the first Guard he arrives at, till the orders of the General Commanding

Deserters from the Enemy.

Videttes and
Sentinels.

Advanced
Piquets.

Officers on
Guard.

uides.

Commanding are known. When a Deserter comes in from the Enemy, the Officer commanding the Post, or Guard, at which he first arrives, is immediately to send him under a proper Escort (and without permitting him to be delayed, or examined, or any questions asked him) to the Officer Commanding the OutPosts, who, after ascertaining whether he brings any intelligence immediately relating to his own Post, will forward him to Head-Quarters.

The Videttes and Sentinels on the Out-Posts are always to be double. No Officers, Soldiers, or Followers of the Camp, are on any account to be suffered to pass the Out-Posts, unless they are on Duty, or present a regular permit from Head-Quarters.

The Men on advanced Piquets are to carry their provisions with them, ready cooked, when circumstances will permit. The Cavalry to carry sufficient Forage for the time they are to be out.

It is the Duty of Officers, on all Guards, to inspect all Reliefs of Sentries, both when they go on and come off their Posts; to call the Rolls frequently; and by every means in their power to keep the Men' under their Command in the most perfect state of vigilance and preparation.

Officers commanding Out-Guards are to send Guides or Orderly Men to the Major of Brigade of the Day, or to the Brigade-Major of their own Brigades, as circumstances may require, in order to conduct the new Guards, and to carry such Orders as may be necessary. When the Army is on a March, they

they must apprize the Brigade-Majors of the Situation

of their posts, as soon as they arrive at them

All Detachments of Brigades which are ordered to, Detachments. march immediately, are to be taken from the Inlying Piquets, and replaced directly.

men,

-Whenever Detachments are composed of 200 or upwards, a Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon is to be sent from the Corps of the Officer who commands. On particular Duties, the Attendance of a Surgeon, or Assistant Surgeon, may be requisite with smaller Detachments. Detachments of Cavalry, of 50 or upwards, must be attended by a Farrier.

Officers.

As soon as an Officer commanding an Out-Post, or Attentions of advanced Piquet (whether of Cavalry or Infantry), arrives on his Ground, he must endeavour to make himself master of his situation, by carefully examining, not only the space he actually occupies, but the Heights within Musket-Shot; the Roads and Paths leading to or near his Post, ascertaining their Breadth and Practicability for Cavalry and Cannon.-He should examine the hollow ways that cover the Approach of an Enemy; and, in short, consider all the Points from which he is most likely to be attacked. He will by these means be enabled to take Measures to prevent the possibility of Surprise: and should he be attacked during the Night, from the previous knowledge he has obtained of the Ground, he will at once form a just estimate of the nature of the Attack, and make his Arrangements for Defence with Promptitude and Decision.

An intelligent Officer upon an Out- Post, even un

provided