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any details of Major Caines long Military Services, as I know that those details have been forwarded to Your Lordship, by Major General D'Aguilar, Commanding H. M.'s Land Forces in China, but I may perhaps be permitted to bear the strongest testimony to the 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 Hongkong, from the moment that Colony came into possession of by my Predecessor in May 1841 till the day I quitted it in June 1844.
Those duties, though strictly coming under the Civil Department, were in many instances such as would have required from a Military Commander, and I do not hesitate to record my opinion that up to the conclusion of the War, the safety and well-being of H. M.'s Subjects who had located themselves on the Island, were mainly owing to Major Caine's individual efforts and example.
I am sure I need not say more 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