![Military Journal of Colonel Leslie, K.H., of Balquhain [Microform]](/jacket/500x500/9781974246434.jpg)
Publisher's Synopsis
Ix Fobruary, 1M()7, I received orders to join tlio depot of my regiment hi the Isle of Wight. 1 took my pussagi; in one of the Ahurdeeu smacks, and, after a stormy voyage, I arrived in London, 1st March. On the loth Marcli I reached Southani[)ton. Next morning, the 14th, I went to Uowes and Xew[)ort. On the following day, the loth, I reportetl myself to Colonel liarlow, the Commandant of the Army Depot, at rarkhiirst I'arracks, which was the general rendezvous for all the oflicers and recruits who \ven under orders to join their respective corps on foreign service. Owing to this circumstance there was at times an immense assemblage of ofHcers at I'arkhurst Uarracks. Many of these oflicers i DEGREESroved to be very disorderly in their habits. This chiefly arose from a wrong system then pursued of allowing olHcers who had got into scrai)es in their own corps to exchange into other regiments, instead of bringing them to trial in their own, in order to save its
