It's most probably a bugle badge for the 1812 pattern caps (commonly called a belgic shako, though incorrectly).
In 1813 a GO was issued ordering light infantry and light company units to use brass bugle plates in place of the universal plate recently introduced.
A number of identical badges to these have been discovered in Canada, France, Belgium and the Pyrenees dating to around this period.
Although it shares similarity in fixtures to early cartridge box plates, these had been long discontinued in use on them by this date , apart from the RA and Foot Guards, who still retained them.
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