The duties of your Office at Hruptinge will not permit you to leave that place for a moment when another Officer of the Government is on the Spot, and the Chief Superintendent is still absent. You must feel with him that while in the Office you now hold, it necessarily becomes my duty to press, however painfully, the privilege of being your Chief, in any Military situations in which it may be engaged.
Robert Morrison
The above from Sir Henry St George Bentinck
His Grace the Duke of Wellington speaking of ...
... but being perhaps too favourably impressed to be in the strongest testimony to the zeal and laborious exertions, combined with judgement, and the great measure worthy of praise and approbation with which Captain Caine discharged the arduous and important duties of Chief Magistrate and Superintendent from the moment that Col. Caine was appointed by my predecessor in May 1841, till the day I quitted it, June 1844.
Coming to the duties, the duties under the Civil Department were in many instances purely such as would have been performed under a Military Commander, and I do not hesitate to record my opinion that, up to the present moment, the safety and well-being of the Honourable Company's Subjects, who had settled in the Island, were mainly owing to Captain Caine's individual efforts and examples.
26th October 1844
197
Have particularly quoted the Acts of the Treasury. The fortunate feeling that were the powers by mistake of the late section of Superintendents Act falsely quoted for a number of years, not exceeding twenty, the addition to the Convict establishment have actually served ...
... of my having been taken from the Military profession to perform Civil Duties. These will be stated and forwarded in a separate communication to the Lords of the Treasury for their favourable consideration.
The importance of the matter in question will, I trust, be a sufficient excuse for the trouble I have given you.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble Servant,
J. C. Davis
Late Lieutenant Governor of Hruptions (Aruptings)