THE 93an REGIMENT AND WATERLOO. [To Ins EDIT°. or Tor
"SPSCSASOIL"1 am sorry that in a hastily written letter an ill- expressed sentence has given occasion for the letter of "IL J." in your issue of January 24th. I ought to have written : "And he beat bie drum, at the head of the Highland regiment into which he had been drafted, at Waterloo, where he was wounded." The men then raised in Sutherland were called out, by what one of the historians calls "a species of conscrip- tion," for the local regiment, which had been made up from' the 3rd Sutherland Fencibles, which became General Wemyss's• Regiment, latterly the 93rd. In August, 1801, this regiment was sent to the Cape, and returned to Plymouth on August 11th, 1814. The first Sutherland clearance was then begun. The regiment had only been four weeks in•the country when-it was ordered off on the ill-fated expedition to New Orleans, and sailed on September 16th. Apparently there had not been enough time to pick up all drafts ; because men who had been sent from Sutherland for the 93rd were sent, owing to military exigencies, to the Continent. Some, of whom I have heard, fought at Waterloo; and, as far as I can learn, com- pleted their time in their own regiment. The "fragment" of the 93rd which survived the marshes and military blunders of New Orleans reached Spithead on May 15th, 1815. Even then, as I have heard, units eagerly volunteered for the Continent to take a hand in the work that was leading to the 18th of
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