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 THE JTEW SOJJTBi WALES COSPS. 96 recrnitB. A fefw montliB later^ when a detacliineTit of the ^''•^ CorpB was on board the G-orgon, two soldiere from the Savoy soidiew got drimk and canBed a diBtnrbance^ which was made much savoy, of by the commander of the vessel, Captain Harvey, who reported to the Admiralty that the men had mutinied. G-rose wrote to the Secretary at War declaring that a ^' drunken irregnlarity," which ended in the two soldiers being pnt in irons, had been magnified into a mutiny, from motives of personal pique; and from the fact that Captain Harvey, although he was a protege of Sir Joseph Banks, was almost immediately afterwards superseded by Captain Parker, it would seem that Ghrose's view of the matter was accepted by the authorities.* As to the principal officers of the Corps, who were taken The offloew from different regiments in the Army, it does not appear repute, that they were selected with the idea that the service was one for inferior men. Major Grose, the Commandant, was MajorOrose. a man of good standing in the Army, and his connections were at least respectable. His father was an antiquary of note,t whose work in the branch of literature to which he devoted himself brought him considerable fame. Major Grose had a long and honorable career in the British army. part of the Saroj is now occupied hy the Army ae a place of confinement for their detert'-rs and transports." — Thombury*B Old and New London, toI. iii, pp. 95-100. The buildings were pulled down in 1819 to form the western approach of Waterloo Bridge. In Farquhar's play, ''The Becruiting Officer," one of the characters declared that as an inducement to enlist, the recruiting- sergeant " promised to advance me ; and indeed he did so — ^to a garret in the Savoy. I asked liim why he put me in prison ; he called me a lying dog, and said I was in garrison." — Act iii, sc. I. For particulars conceminij the system of recruiting the Army in foroe during the last century, see Clode's Milituy Forces of the Crown, vol. ii, pp. 4 and 14; and Lecky's History of the Eighteenth Century, vol. iii, p. 589. vol. i, part 2, pp. 420. 421. t In Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, Q-rose's father, Francis Qroae, is described as '* an eminent English antiquary." He was born in 1781, and was the author of numerous books, including The Antiquities of England and Wales, The Antiquities of Scotland, and The Antiquities of Ireland. Ho had some bent for the military profession, for in early life he entered the Surrey militia, becoming adjutant and paymaster. He died in Dublin on the r€lh Itfay, 1791, two months before his son's departure for Sydney.
 * The correspondence on this subject will be found jn the Historical Becords,