To Captain W. Caine.
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Mussoorie, 1st August, 1833. What can I say to you, my dear Caine, to convey to you a just idea of the exceeding love I bear you? Seven years of trial have proved the solidity of our friendship, and time has only served to consolidate and strengthen the feelings of regard with which we first met! As a soldier, you have few equals, and you only want opportunity to win your brilliant spurs by your own valour! As a friend, your gentlemanly and honourable principles, your devoted zeal to the interests of those you love, your clear and comprehensive mind, will always insure a reciprocity of feeling wherever your excellent qualities may be known. When I am gone you will look in vain for a friend to supply my place, and to take the same deep, and lively, and constant interest in your welfare! Labour, my dear Caine, to establish your own independence, and be assured there can be no real happiness without it! Reckon, as upon your own existence, on my constant and unremitted endeavours to render you every service in my power; but recollect that, in this life, every man works out his own fortune, and that a strong and constant will surmounts all difficulties! If you fail in life, you will have only yourself to blame; for God has given you abundantly every requisite to your making a great, a brilliant, a glorious career! May He, in His mercy, grant that all my wishes may be realized, and that it may be a source of pride and delightful vanity to me to say hereafter, that distinguished soldier was my aide-de-camp, and a dear and beloved friend,
Ever, my dear Caine,
Your much attached,
(Signed) SAMFORD WHITTINGHAM.
China Mail, No. 42, December 4, 1845. "When the deputation proceeded to Canton, the Honourable Major Caine, who headed it, having, we understood, been unfettered by any precise instructions, conceived that the occasion might very properly be taken advantage of to fix a precedent for the admission of British subjects to the city of Canton. Accordingly, on proceeding to the Consulate, he expressed his views to Mr. McGregor (the British Consul),
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to the effect that he thought it proper and respectful to Keying, for the deputation to wait upon him in the city, and that no better opportunity could be found to bring to issue the important question of the ingress and egress of foreigners, adding, that he did not feel the least alarm for his own individual safety, or for that of the other members of the Deputation, whilst on a mission of personal respect to the Imperial Commissioner.
Having little better information than mere rumour to depend upon, as the causes which prevented the point being brought to the test, we abstain from comment, farther than to remark, that a matter of this description, requiring both tact and decision, could not have fallen into better hands than those of the gallant Major.
As the "Vixen" approached Hong Kong, the changed appearance of the place since he last saw it, struck Keying with surprise. On anchoring, he wished to go on shore in his own boat; and it was only the earnest remonstrances of Major Caine that induced him to enter the Admiral's barge, which conveyed him ashore, where his reception, and more especially the mansion provided for his accommodation, afforded him evident gratification.
At a tiffin of which he partook at Major Caine's on the 24th, Keying was delighted to recognize a portrait of his friend, Sir Henry Pottinger, over the mantel-piece; and during the entertainment he pointedly referred to the amicable arrangements now so happily existing between Great Britain and China."
HONG KONG,
EXTRACT from China Mail, No. 114, April 22, 1847. "PROCLAMATION by his Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Hong Kong, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
The Honourable Major William Caine, Senior Member of the Executive Council, will administer the Government of the Island of Hong Kong, during the temporary absence of his Excellency the Governor and the Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor.
J. F. DAVIS.
By order, W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary. Government House, Victoria,
April 2, 1847.
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To Captain W. Caine.
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Mussoorie, 1st August, 1833. What can I say to you, my dear Caine, to convey to you a just idea of the exceeding love I bear you? Seven years of trial have proved the solidity of our friendship, and time has only served to consolidate and strengthen the feelings of regard with which we first met! As a soldier, you have few equals, and you only want opportunity to win your brilliant spars by your own valour! As a friend, your gentlemanly and honourable principles, your devoted zeal to the interests of those you love, your clear and comprehensive mind, will always insure a reciprocity of feeling wherever your excel- lent qualities may be known. When I am gone you will look in vain for a friend to supply my place, and to take the same deep, and lively, and constant interest in your welfare! Labour, my dear Caine, to establish your own independence, and be assured there can be no real happiness without it! Reckon, as upon your own existence, on my constant and unremitted endeavours to render you every service in my power; but recollect that, in this life, every man works out his own fortune, and that a strong and con- stant will surmounts all difficultios! If you fail in life, you will have only yourself to blame; for God has given you abundantly every requisite to your making a great, a lail- liant, a glorious career! May He, in His mercy, grant that all my wishes may be realized, and that it may be a source of pride and delightful vanity to me to say hereafter, that distinguished soldier was my aide-de-camp, and a dear and beloved friend,
Ever, my dear Caine,
Your much attached, (Signed) SAMFORD WHITTINGHAM.
China Mail, No. 42, December 4, 1845. "When the deputation proceeded to Canton, the Honour- able Major Caine, who headed it, having, we understood, been unfettered by any precise instructions, conceived that the occasion might very properly be taken advantage of to fix a precedent for the admission of British subjects to the city of Canton. Accordingly, on proceeding to the Consulate, he expressed his views to Mr. McGregor (the British Consul),
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to the effect that he thought it proper and respectful to47 Keying, for the deputation to wait upon him in the city, and that no better opportunity could be found to bring to issue the important question of the ingress and egress of foreigners, adding, that he did not feel the least alarm for his own individual safety, or for that of the other members of the Deputation, whilst on a mission of personal respect to the Imperial Commissioner.
Having little better information than mere rumour to depend upon, as the causes which prevented the point being brought to the test, we abstain from comment, farther than to remark, that a matter of this description, requiring both tact and decision, could not have fallen into better hands than those of the gallant Major.
As the "Vixen" approached Hong Kong, the changed appearance of the place since he last saw it, struck Keying with surprise. On anchoring, he wished to go on shore in his own boat; and it was only the earnest remonstrances of Major Caine that induced him to enter the Admiral's barge, which conveyed him ashore, where his reception, and more especially the mansion provided for his accommodation, afforded him evident gratification.
At a tiffin of which he partook at Major Caine's on the 24th, Keying was delighted to recognize a portrait of his friend, Sir Henry Pottinger, over the mantel-piece; and during the entertainment he pointedly referred to the ami- cable arrangements now so happily existing between Great Britain and China."
HONG KONG,
EXTRACT from China Mail, No. 114, April 22, 1847. "PROCLAMATION by his Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Hong Kong, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
The Honourable Major William Caine, Senior Member of the Executive Council, will administer the Government of the Island of Hong Kong, during the temporary absence of his Excellency the Governor and the Honourable the Lieu- tenant-Governor.
J. F. DAVIS.
By order, W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary. Government House, Victoria,
April 2, 1847.
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