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Rh In addition to the above troops, which exclusively belong to the East India Company, there are thirty regiments of her Majesty's troops, lent to and paid by the Company, which are at present distributed as follows: –

– The 9th Lancers and 14th Light Dragoons, and the 10th, 18th, 22nd, 24th, 29th, 32nd, 53rd, 60th (1st battalion), 61st, 70th, 75th, 80th, 81st, 87th, 96th, and 98th Regiments of Foot. – The 15th Hussars, and the 25th, 51st, 52nd, 84th, and 94th Regiments of Foot. – The 10th Hussars, and the 8th, 64th, 78th, 83rd, and 86th Regiments of Foot. The whole Anglo-Indian Army, Royal, European, and Native, amounting to 289,529.*

Of the above number, not more than four thousand eight hundred and thirty are European officers, and of these at least seven hundred are generally absent on furlough, and a great many on the staff, in charge of local corps, or otherwise employed away from their regiments. This is one of the great evils of the system; for though the small number of the European officers are assisted in the ordinary routine of garrison-duties by the native commissioned officers (the soubahdars and jematdars, or captains and subalterns), their numerical deficiency has exposed armies to serious risks in the field, where