Ladekip 9½ Lordship by Majn. General 9½ Aquilar, Commanding H. M's. Land Forces in China, but I may perhaps be permitted
to bear the strongest testimony to unceasing zeal and laborious exertions combined with great judgment, and the most praiseworthy temper and forbearance, with which Major Caine discharged the arduous and important duties of Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong, from the moment that Colony was taken possession of by me in May 1841, till the day I quitted it in June, 1844.
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Though strictly coming under the Civil department, those duties were in many instances purely military, such as would have been required from a Military Commander, and I do not hesitate to record that the safety and well-being of H. M's subjects, who had settled themselves on the Island, were mainly owing to Major Caine's individual efforts and example.
I need not say to induce His Grace the Duke of Wellington to look as favourably as may be consistent with the rules of the Service, on Major Caine's claims, I will therefore only add that this recommendation in favour of that officer springs from the purest public motives, and from a sense of the Assistance I derived from him in the complicated and difficult position in which I was placed in China.
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(Signed) Henry Pottinger
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