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( Continued from yesttrday' r Paper.
What 're have hitherto stated is applicable to to
Medical establishment of the British troops only •
the foreign troops in our servicewehave a distinct IVledi-
cal Establishment, which must, therefore, be separately
considered:

This, it appears, was first formed in November,
795, on the recommendation of Colonel Negbitt, at
that time Inspector General of the Foreign Cinps.—
The recoarimendation is stated to have been founded
on the propriety, that they who had the care and ma-
nagem,:nt of the sick belonging to these corps should
be acquainted with their language, customs, consti-
tutional habits, and peculiar diseases.
_ _ _

By the regulations and instructions of the above
date, it was directed, that the establishment should he
under the immediate military superintendence of the'
Inspector General of the Foreign Corps ' • and that it
should consist of a Physician General, described .as
Inspector and Director of all Foreign Hospitals, two
Surgeons, three Assistant Surgeons, eight Hospital
"Nietes, an Apothecary and an Assistant Apothecary ;
with an administration consisting of a Comptroller, a
Secretary, a Cashier, a Chaplain, two Clerks, a Store-
keeper, a Steward, and a Matron ; and it was to be
augmented or diminished according to circumstances
and necessity : Colonel Nesbitt, the Inspector Gene-
ral, was to recommend the Chief of the Staff, why was
then to recommend to the Inspector General proper
qualified persons for the other situations.
The duties of the Chief of the Staff, as stated
shortly by himself, ate, to act as principal Medical
Officer to the General Hospital, where he attends
every week, or more often if required ; to inspect all
Regimental Hospitals (of Foreign Corps) in Eng-
land ; to provide qualified medical of:fleets for all
the foreign corps ; to examine all foreign recruits and
invalids, with the particular injunction from Govern-
ment to ascertain-whether they arc really Germans ;
arid he states, that the number of recruits examined by
him, from '2sth December, MS, to '24th December,
1506, is fourteen thousand three hundred and forty-
one, and the number of invalids four hundred and
ninety-eight.
In 1800, a contralti over the Chief of the Foreign
Medical Staff was given to the Army Medical Board,
with whom he was directed to correspond on all sur-
gical and medical matters respecting the Foreign
Hospital service, without going thmugh the Office
of the Military Inspector General of- the Foreign
C ups. He was afterwards directed to propose to
teat Board the candidates whom he recommended for
medical appointments. Both he and the Purveyor
were ordered to follow, in every particular, the regii.
latioes established fir the British General Hospitals ;
and they were to transmit to the Board, through the
agent fur the foreign corps, their monthly accounts
aid vouchers, for examination ; and to draw (sii the
agent for foreign coVs for such sums as might be
requisite.
The appointment of Military Inspector General of
Foreign Corps was: di!;continued in December, 1 KW,
end a Deputy leepececr of the Foreign Depot at
Lymington was appoinuad in his place. But Doctor
Versturme, the Chief of the Foreign Medical Staff,
staure that he has new the Medical superintendance
and inspection of all the foreign corps in the British
service, all hough they may not be under the imme-
diate military direct of the Comineectieg Offieee
of the Depot. In January, ISM, the Army MF3i i:11
P(1,711%, undertook, en the proposition of Doctot. Ver.
suirme, the examination of the candidates for medi-
cal situations in the foreign corps. The same rank,
denomination, and pay, were then given to Cie Fo-:.
reign Hospital Staff as to the nelical Staff in similar
situations in the British army aad the Chief of the
Medical Staff v: as, from that tinaa styled the "Oki*
Physician Inspector oithe Foreign Hoipiaels."
From Ductnr Versturreele ztatt..mer.: of die el.:-