CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4] — Page 172

moment when

200

other Officer

of the Government is on the spot, and the chief Superintendent is well assured you must ful

feel

with lime, that while in the

-

office you now hold, it necessarity becomes your duty to forego (how

painfully), the privilege of e your Corps,

ever

Being with

carry

Military operations in which it may be engaged.

Ghave ten

(Signed) D. Rott Mussien,

(True Copy)

Manie

&

Catract.

170

letter from The

Right Honorable sir Nevry Pottinger, Bart: to Love Giz vey Sunerect, K. C. B., dated 49. Altermarte. Street, 2h 8 Mtr : 1844.

"But I may perhaps be : Aed to bear the strongest

permitted testimony to the

asing

zeal and labourious exertions

cantined with great judgment

Braiseworthy

and the

temper and forbearms with which Major

Caine discharged

the arduous rend

ardever

important duties

of Chief Magistrate of Hungtung,

the monsent that Colony,

from the

taken possession of by my Predecesser

May 1841. tikh the day I quitted it in found 1844.