Text Appearing Before Image: aveseven hundred good Militia who may be depended upon.One Company, about sixty freeholders, are formed into Ar-tillery, and are now practising with great assiduity. I haveanother select regiment of one thousand rnen, commanded byhalf-pay officers, and composed of privates, most of whomserved under these officers during the late war. They havetwo Companies of Artillery and one of Horse, and can beassembled in Halifax in six days notice, part of them sooner.This evidently refers to a corps of the Loyalists (known asthe Nova Scotia Legion), many thousands of whom had set-tled in the province, and who furnished the finest possible ma-terial for a sturdy, well-disciplined and experienced militia.Three regiments were enrolled in the western part of theprovince, respectively commanded by Colonels Barclay, Mil-lidge and Taylor; in the latter battalion were many Acadians,—once expelled—now welcomed. The Halifax force appears tohave been in a very effective state, and on a test alarm being Text Appearing After Image: STEPHEN HALL BINNEY,Barrack Master at Halifax, Died 1836, aged 75 years. After a portrait in the Provincial Museum, painted by hisbrother, Hibbert Newton Binney, in 1791. THE MILITIA OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1749-1867. 77 given, the 1st battalion, commanded by Col. Pyke, paradedin fifteen minutes, completely armed. This corps also fur-nished 550 men to assist the garrison in repairing and mountingthe batteries. The Halifax Artillery under Captain Tremain,were also evidently a crack corps, and were reported to have intheir ranks: Men of from £100 to £600 per annum clear estate,who, from a declared principle of loyalty, and utter abhorrenceof French Democratic tyranny, have voluntarily offered their The force this year was estimated as nine thousand strong,,of whom seven thousand would be available in an emergency.The excitement increased as the season went on; in October,1050 men, exclusive of officers, from the militia of Hants, Kingsand Annapolis marched into Halifax; one company under Capt
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