Note 235 — MEDALS OF THE MILITIA, YEOMANRY, AND VOLUNTEERS.

The following account of the presentation of medals to a body of Volunteers, on their disbanding, appeared in the Morning Chronicle of April, 1802, just after the signing of the Treaty of Amiens:—

“Yesterday the Hon. John Henniker Major met his respectable corps of Suffolk Volunteers, in that county; and, after thanking them, in an elegant and appropriate speech, for the zeal and activity that they had manifested in the defence of their country, delivered to each of them a silver medal, decorated with military devices, as a mark of the high sense he entertained of their services; after which, Mr. Major informed them they were now disbanded, conformably to the regulation of the Government, with a reward the most gratifying, viz., their Sovereign’s approbation of their conduct.”