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36 itself, lor physique and drill. We find the following pen sketch of the company in the Portland "Transcript's" account of the visit of the rifles to Portland in 1858:— "The dress of the Highland company was a green coatee faced with red and gold, plaid pants, tartan scarfs. Highland bonnet with ostrich plumes, and red feather. The piper, in full Highland costume, with his kilt and his bare knees, attracted some attention. The Highlanders were thoroughly Scotch in form and features, spare and sharp, and in their native costume looked like true followers of the Bruce." The uniform worn by the Highland Company while attached to the ist P. W. Rifles is described by lieut.- Col.' Macpherson^ as consisting of rifle tunic or coatee, after the pattern of the 71st Highland Light Infantry, but of rifle green cloth, trews and plaid of the tartan of %th the clan McKenzie of Seaforth as worn by the 78th Highlanders, highland plume bonnet, with red hackle. Captain Macpherson retained the command of the company till his promotion to the rank of Major (CO., 19th Feb., 1861), which was closely followed by his appointment to be Brigade Major to the Active Force of Montreal, (G. O. 5th April, 1861). The company was transferred to the 5th Royal laght Infantry, under No. 10 of General Orders of 9th October, 1863, which read as follows: "The Highland Rifle Company. This company is hereby transferred from the ist Prince of Wales Regiment Volunteer Militia, to the 5th Battalion or Royal Light Infantry, and will be designated hereafter as No- 9 or the Highland Infantry Company of that Battalion." The same general orders (October 9, 1863) contained the announcement of the resignations of Lieut. G. Brown, Ensign A. G. Lindsay, and Supernumerary Ensign N. G. Slack, Captain Peter Moir being consequently the only officer of the Highland Company transferred with it to the 5th Royal Light Infantry. After the transfer the company adopted the scarlet tunic, but adhered to the Mackenzie tartan trews, also wearing) checkered bands on their shakos and lorage caps. The transfer of this old company to the 5th Roj'als, marks the introduction of a Scottish element into that corps, which can fairly be considered as the nucleus about which has been developed the Canada," as a Highland Regiment. ROYAL SCOTS OF CANADA "5th Royal Scots of Upon its organization the vmiform of the first eight companies of the 5th Royal Light Infantry was the regulation one of the British Light Infantry regiments but with silver lace and buttons. The full dress head-dress was the shako and green ball, the forage caps similar to those worn by the Grenadier Guards, round and flat, with large tops and broad red bands round the bottonis. The winter head-dress was a shaggy fur cap, much resembling the Fu,sileer busby, but not so large. The regimental button consisted of the Royal Cypher "V.R." in the centre, with the words "The Royals" above and "Montreal," below. In undress, the officers wore a double-breasted, blue frock coat with the crimson sash over. The appearance of the regiment on parade, was very fine, and Colonel Stevenson, of the Guards, who first inspected the corps said it put him in mind of his own regiment. The Royals carried everything before them on the rifle ranges. For this the regiment was much indebted to the enthusiasm of Captain John Grant. His company had a target of their own, and its officers provided an unlimited supply of ammunition, with the result that at the first match, which was held upon the ice at Point St. Charles, "Grant's Company," with its four or five teams, won almost everything. Major K. Campbell remarked the other day:— "The Royals were very fortunate in having such an officer as Captain Grant at this important epoch in their career. Beloved by everyone, as a man and an officer, I have always considered him above and be3'ond any one I knew in the volimteer service. He was a splendid drill, had a fine word of command, was cool and collected, strict even to severity about diity, jêt always fair, affable and reasonable, and without a trace of assTimption. In 1863, the strength of the Active Militia, limited by the Act of 1853 to 5,000, was raised to 25,000, at which strength it was maintained until after the reorganization following Confederation in 1867. Montreal was the focus of the excitement produced by the St. Allrans Raid, October 19, 1864, but the evidence given at the trial of the raiders did not bear out the general impression that the raid had been planned and directed froin here. The evidence was to the effect that at the time the leader of the raid, Bennet H. Young, was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Confederate army for the special purjjose of raising a body of Confederate soldiers escaped from United States prisons to make the raid, he was in Chicago on some political mission. Some of his partj^ it is true, went direct from Montreal to St. Albans, others proceeded through the United States. The raiders took possession of the three banks in vSt. Albans, which is eighteen miles from the Canadian frontier, in broad daylight, seized the money in the hands of the bank officials and some being tendered on deposit by private citizens, set fire to the town in three places, provided themselves with horses taken from the people, and in a body made their escape into Canada, dispersing after crossing the lines. Thirteen of the raiders were arrested in Canada at the request of the United States government and brought to trial in Montreal. After a most sensational hearing and a length}' argument, the prisoners were acquitted, it being held that the raid was an act of war and not one of robbery as charged in the indictments. This incident resulted in another violent spasm of Anglophobia in the United States, and once more the recognized exponents of public opinion in the Republic advocated war, and as a inatter of course, the immediate invasion of Canada. Another period of anxiety
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