[ { "id": 219052, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "No:35,1718441 Incl: No : 4 in Despatch \n\nguilty \n\nN: 36. Miscellaner \n\nа \n\n1659 Bong Kong \n\nRECEIVED \n\nOCT 3 \n\nGovernment. House Nictoria. Hongkong. 6th July 1846 14 \n\nTher \n\nMy Lord, \n\nI have the honer to inform Your Lordship that Whave received. This day Your Lordship's despatches from Nr 10 of the 17t1⁄2 of March to No 13 of the 14th of April, both inclusive despatch of the 15th March marked. Military N.1. a Corcular conveying the decision of Her Majesty's Government, as lo fees not being payable. appointments to the Exeative and Legislative Councils, together with the duplicates of all Your Indships despatches to me up to N. G of the 6th of March, and duplicates of Nr 34 and... No 38 to 4) inclusive and a duplicate of the Act. 6 and 7 Nic. C. 76. addressed to For Henry Pottinger.. \n\nIn \n\nk \n\nThe Right Honorable \n\nLord Stanley M. P. \n\n&c, \n\nte. \n\n&c, \n\nI \n\nCommandant at Kowloon. \n\nMajor Caine to the Communication from. \n\nstating \n\nup unless proved \n\nHwang cannot be given \n\nthat Awangsin \n\nTo b", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "Inerchants have any affairs that concern natives, the English Graders will be judged by a British Officer, \n\nA \n\nand Native Chinese \n\nbe proceeded against by the Contrat Empire (Mandarins). Hence both the cases \n\nFouarze and took wan \n\n이 \n\nyuk, last year, \n\nwho had sobbed and Killed soine \n\nEnglish \n\nMerchant / botter? ) and committed the \n\nsame crime as \n\nand the late \n\nChintal, were Lovernor, Ke \n\nthus \n\nmanaged, Ke, frosted sentence \n\nand executed thein, which was communicated \n\nto the late Envoy Pottinger, \n\nAJ \n\nis \n\non alond. \n\nChistre the criminal ought therefore be dealt \n\nwith, and \n\nand his \n\nCall \n\ntransacted \n\naccording \n\nto the \n\nGreaty, so that be may be sent instantly to the Provincial City, \n\nlity, and examined by the fudge; and after having been delivered over to sue the Great Minister, I may myself pass the sentence, and have him executed. Then I shall again submit a statement to \n\nthe \n\nthe consideration of You the Honorable Envoy, \n\nand this matter will thus be in. \n\nproperty \n\nhave \n\nmanaged \n\nThree accomplices in this crime, \n\nto the riport of the Lospons \n\naccording \n\ntwo \n\nCommandant been seized by the Heang show Itragistrate, and ties mou been apprehendix by the Pwanyu Authorities . I' the Great Sinister have in the mea uchile given \n\nurgent orders to the bread Military, and livil Officers, to seize with severity the remainder, agreeably to the list of their normes and \n\nabodes; and the criminals will thus \n\nsuccessively be caught. The necessity therefore of having this one villain Chintal, sent to Panton in order to be confronted and to \n\nSive \n\nPridence Ae \n\nwill be still \n\nthe other ruffians, \n\nreepeating frenter; for \n\nthen nove \n\nof \n\nthere \n\noutlaws will be able to deny (the charge) \n\ncunning by, the case will be soon settled, \n\nAnd \n\nDEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230754, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "Mas \n\n- \n\nCommander in Chief to Whampoa in March 1841._ In May 1841 Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong. When the Force went against Canton in 1841 Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join this Regiment but was refused, vide Letter 19/31 dated 22nd May 1841 from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary herewith attached. In September 1843 was appointed Member of Council in this Colony. In November 1844, obtained through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application unattached Majority. In November 1846, promoted to Colonial Secretary and Auditor General, – in April 1847 when the expedition went against Canton was in charge of the Colony, as well as \n\n- \n\nan \n\nleft here in \n\nbeing Commandant of the Garrison - \n\n171 \n\nEntered the Service as Volunteer 17 Foot. 8th Nov2 1813. \n\nLieutenant 17th Foot 6th July 1816 \n\nLieutenant \"\n\n12th April 1819 \n\nExchanged to 14th Foot April 1822 \n\n# \n\nRemoved to 3o Buffs on applica: 16 March 1826 \n\nCaptain 11 Fest 9th Decr 1827 Exchanged 26th Foot October 1834 \n\nMajor by Brevet: 9 Nov 1841 \n\nMajor unattached Novr 1844 \n\n(True Copy)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "content_text": "I derived from him in the complicated and difficult position, in which I was placed in China.\n\nI have Her\n\nA True copy\n\n(signed) Henry Pottinger\n\n(signed) Harry Pottinger\n\nKacie\n\nC\n\nthe 886-455\n\n70 A\n\nExtract from General Orders by the Honble Major General D'Aquilar, C.B. Commanding the Troops in China.\n\nApril 2nd, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of His Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Bart, &c., The Major General Commanding gladly avails himself of the Services of the Honble Major Caine, and appoints him Commandant of the Garrison of Wong Hong during the absence of the Major General and the Main Body of the Troops on Service at Canton\n\nBy Order,\n\n[signed] J. Bruce, Captain Assistant Adjt: General.\n\nTrue Extract.\n\n[signed] J. Clark Hennedy, Captain Officiating Assistant Adjt General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247297, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 595, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "that officer springs from the purest public - from the sense I must ever \n\nMotives, and \n\nCherish the assistance I derived from \n\nhim in the complicated and difficult \n\nposition in which I was placed in China.\n\nI have tea\n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger\n\nA. True Copy\n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger\n\n(True copy) Monum\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(Copy)\n\n4.\n\n592\n\nExtract from General Orders by the Honorable Major General D'Aguilar\n\nC.B. Commanding the Troops in China.\n\nApril 2nd 1847.\n\nWith the\n\nConcurrence\n\nof His Excellency\n\nSir John Francis Davis, Bart. The Major General Commanding gladly avails\n\nhimself of the Services of the Honorable Major Caine, and appoints him Commandant of the Garrison of Hongkong, during the absence of the Major General, the Troops on service at Canton, and the Main Body of\n\nBy Order\n\n(Signed)\n\nI. Bruce, Captain\n\nAssistant Adjt General\n\n(True Extract)\n\n(Signed) I. Clark Kennedy, Captain\n\nofficiating Assistant Adjt General,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 599, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "Capture of Chusan, he was appointed British Commissioner, and about three weeks afterwards Chief Magistrate of the Island of Chusan, which situation he filled until the following February, on the evacuation of the Island by the British Troops. Major Caine was accidentally in Command of the Cameronian Regiment for a few days in Canton River, when the Lieut. Colonel James had proceeded with the Commander in Chief to Whampoa in about May 1841. Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong. When the Force went against Canton in 1841, Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join his Regiment, but was refused, vide letter No. 131, dated 22nd May 1841, from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary herewith attached.\n\nPage 596\n\nIn September 1843, was appointed Member of Council in this Colony. In November 1844, obtained through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application an unattached Majority. In November 1846, promoted to Colonial Secretary, and Auditor General. In April 1847, when the Expedition went against Canton, Major Caine was left here in charge of the Colony, as well as of the Garrison, being Commandant.\n\nPage 17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260833, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "36 \n\nChina Mail, No. 471, February 23, 1854. Hong Kong, \n\n\"Dr. Bowring, as we announced six weeks ago, has been appointed Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of Trade, and as the separation of the offices would involve the 'fash' of new Act of Parliament, Order in Council, and Colonial Charter, he will likewise hold the appointment of Governor of Hong Kong; but the duties of the office will probably be intrusted to Colonel Caine, with the title of Lieutenant-Governor, to which, if economy and efficiency were really desired, might be added Commandant of the Garrison, after the departure of General Jervois, the present holder of these two offices.\" \n\nChina Mail, No. 479, April 20, 1854. Hong Kong. \n\n\"We have long thought Colonel Caine would make a good Governor, but unfortunately his commission as Lieutenant-Governor is effective only in the absence of Sir John Bowring. No doubt it is proposed that the Colonel shall, as we announced two months ago, administer the affairs of the colony in which Sir John Bowring will not interfere, unless when his supreme authority is indispensable; but such division of duty and responsibility must impair the efficiency of the office, and cases may arise in which important, but not very palatable measures may be suffered to drop between the two stools of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, the one refusing to interfere, and the other holding that he has not the actual power.\" \n\nChina Mail, No. 495, August 10, 1854. \n\n\"The appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Caine to the Lieutenant-Governorship of Hong Kong would appear to have been received as favourably in India as here.” Bengal Hurkaru remarks-\"We are glad to remark that Lieutenant-Colonel Caine, who served in India for upwards of a quarter of a century before he proceeded with the Cameronians to China in 1840, and who must be well known to many of our readers, has been raised to the dignity of Lieutenant-Governor of Hong Kong, an honour and a reward to which his long and meritorious services well entitle him.” \n\n(No. 709.) Sir, \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, \n\nHong Kong, September 26, 1856. I am directed to forward the accompanying address from \n\n37 \n\nthe Indian residents of this city, with copy of covering letter from Mr. Mitchell, Acting Chief Magistrate. I have the honour, &c. \n\n(Signed) W. T. MERCER, \n\nH. E. Colonel Caine. \n\n(No. 30.) \n\nColonial Secretary. \n\nChief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, \n\nSir, \n\nHong Kong, September 26, 1859. I have the honour to transmit the enclosed letter to my address from a class whom I may designate as the \"Old Indians of the colony, and most of whom I dare say are personally known to yourself. The address is evidently intended as a farewell tribute to Colonel Caine, to whose feelings, notwithstanding its uncouth form, I make no doubt it will be acceptable. \n\nI have the honour, &c. (Signed) W. H. MITCHELL, The Hon. W. T. Mercer, \n\nColonial Secretary. \n\nHonoured Sir, \n\n36 \n\nActing Chief Magistrate. \n\nW. H. MITCHELL, Esq. \n\nHong Kong, September 24, 1859. We, the undersigned, do most humbly beg your Honour, \n\nto take this case as far as your Honour pleases to assist your most obedient servants. In the beginning of the first war with China, we, the Indians, gave good credit to the British, and assisted them as much as it lay in our power, by carrying provisions, &c., &c., to the men-of-war ships, Company's vessels, &c., &c., in the Hong Kong roads: this was twenty years ago, in Sir Henry Pottinger's time: after Hong Kong was taken, now nineteen years, gave it to Colonel Caine's charge, and appointed him Magistrate of the colony. Colonel Caine was an upright person, in his duties he gave much credit to the Government at the time; if there was any complaint to be made, we used to go to him, and he does nothing but justice. \n\nWe beg your Honour to look thoughtfully upon this case, and assist us. Now there are all new Government officials in Hong Kong, they don't know us, Colonel Caine is the only one now who has been from the beginning to this time. Unfortunately he is going to leave his old faithful servants behind, who do mournfully regret his loss. May it please Providence to place one in his stead-so kind, civil, and charitable.\n\n58 \n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "43\n\n1:\n\nSCHEDULE of Inclosures to Despatch No. 96, of 20th May, 1859, from Colonel Caine to Sir E. B. Lytton, Bart.\n\n1. Statement showing age, length of service, and actual salary of Colonel Caine, as also the amount of his contributions to the Superannuation Fund.\n\n2. Letter from Mr. Morrison, Secretary to Superintendency, to Captain Caine, stating that the Chief Superintendent declines to allow him to quit Hong Kong to command his company in the operations against Canton.\n\nMay 22, 1841.\n\n3. Letter from Sir Henry Pottinger to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, recommending Brevet-Major Caine for an unattached Majority\n\nOctober 26, 1844.\n\n4. Extract from General Orders by Major-General D'Aguilar, appointing Major Caine Commandant of Hong Kong.\n\nApril 2, 1847.\n\n5. Letter from the Assistant Adjutant-General at Hong Kong, conveying to Major Caine the acknowledgment of Major-General D'Aguilar for his services whilst in temporary command of the garrison.\n\nMay 3, 1847.\n\n[Note—This proves that though not a Regimental Major, yet, as the Commandant of this garrison, I did perform military duty. The garrison orders, moreover, were issued in my name.—M. CAINE.]\n\n6. Schedule of Major Caine's services from November, 1813, to April, 1847.\n\n7. Letter from Colonel Edwards, 17th Foot, to Colonel McCombe, commanding 14th Foot, bearing testimony to the intelligence, zeal and activity of Lieutenant W. Caine, and to his gallantry at the attack of Jutguh and at the storming of the heights of Jhubbulpoor,\n\nMay 3, 1822.\n\n8. Letter from Colonel Edwards, 14th Foot, to Major-General Sir H. Taylor, bearing testimony to the conduct of Lieutenant W. Caine as a zealous, active, and meritorious officer.\n\nSeptember 18, 1825.\n\n9. Letter from Colonel McCombe to Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor, recommending in strong terms a Memorial from Lieutenant W. Caine to his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief.\n\nSeptember 18, 1823.\n\n49\n\n10. Letter from Major-General Sir Thomas Regnell to Colonel Stewart, congratulating him on the appointment of Lieutenant W. Caine to his regiment.\n\nOctober 1, 1826.\n\n11. Letter from Colonel McCombe, 14th Foot, to Lieutenant W. Caine, bearing testimony to his merits and distinguished services.\n\nDecember, 29, 1826.\n\n12. Letter from Major-General Sir Samford Whittingham to Viscount Combermere, reporting the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Caine at the assault of Bhurtpoor, on the 18th January, 1826.\n\nNovember 26, 1827.\n\n13. Extract from Sir John Davis's despatch, marked \"Separate and confidential,\" of 21st November, 1846, recommending Major Caine for the office of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong.\n\n14. Extract from Sir John Davis's despatch, marked \"Separate and confidential,\" of 27th November, 1846, regarding Major Caine's fitness for the office of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong.\n\n15. Extract from Sir George Bonham's despatch, marked \"Separate,\" of 29th October, 1850, submitting Major Caine's application to retire from his post of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, at the end of 1851.\n\n16. Extract from Sir George Gray's despatch, \"Military,\" No. 2, of 11th October, 1854, to Sir John Bowring, approving measures adopted by Colonel Caine for the protection of Hong Kong, in June, 1854, against Russian aggression.\n\n17. Copy of Sir Edward B. Lytton's despatch, No. 43, of the 1st October, 1858, to Sir John Bowring, bearing testimony to the services of Colonel Caine during his long connexion with the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n18. Copy of letter from Sir Charles Yorke, Military Secretary to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on the subject of Colonel Caine's desire to realize the value of his commission, but granting only the value of the company.\n\nMay 18, 1857\n\n19. Hong Kong. Memorandum of Land Sales, from 13th April, 1854, to 30th June, 1855.\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nE\n\n64\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260841, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "53\n\n52\n\nI 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 that officer springs from the purest public motives, and from the sense I must ever cherish of the assistance I derived from him in the complicated and difficult position in which I was placed in China.\n\nLieutenant-General\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) HENRY POTTINGER.\n\nThe Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.C.B., &c.\n\nTrue copy.\n\n(Signed) W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n4.\n\nEXTRACT from General Orders by the Honourable Major-General D'Aguilar, C.B., Commanding the Troops in China.\n\nApril 2, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of his Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., &c., the Major-General Commanding, gladly avails himself of the services of the Honourable Major Caine, and appoints him commandant of the garrison of Hong Kong, during the absence of the Major-General and the main body of the troops on service at Canton.\n\nTrue extract.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) J. BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General. J. CLARK KENNEDY, Captain,\n\nOfficiating Assistant Adjt.-General.\n\nTrue extract.\n\n(Signed)\n\n(Signed)\n\nCopy, No. 687.\n\nSir\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n5.\n\nAssistant Adjt.-General's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, May 3, 1847.\n\nI have the honour to acquaint you, that the Major-General Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your military report of the 9th ultimo, to his Grace the Commander-in-Chief, and that in so doing he did not fail to express his acknowledgments of the services rendered by you whilst in temporary command of the garrison during the recent operations at Canton.\n\nHon. Major Caine,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjt.-General.\n\nColonial Secretary, Victoria.\n\nTrue copy\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n SCHEDULE of Major Caine's services.\n\n66\n\nMajor Caine entered the service in November, 1813, was employed in the Nepaul War of 1814 and 1815, and in action with the enemy at Jeetgurh on the 3rd January, 1815, when in the Light Company of the 17th Foot; was in the war of the Dekhan in 1817 and 1818, and engaged with the enemy at Jhubbulpoor on the 19th December, 1817, when he planted the regimental colour of his regiment, and destroyed in single combat the Arab Chief commanding on the Mussulman Saint's Tomb at Jubbulpoor; present during the siege of Bhurtpoor, when he volunteered the forlorn hope, and was wounded in the assault whilst carrying the enemy's guns:- Major Caine had the good fortune to destroy three of the enemy on this occasion to whom he was singly opposed; commanded the Grenadier company of the Cameronians at the capture of Chusan, 5th July, 1840. Major Caine has filled the various appointments of Regimental Judge Advocate, of Adjutant and of Major of Brigade at Bhurtpoor, as well as that of Major of Brigade at Meerut, and Deputy Judge Advocate General of that division. Whilst in the 14th Regiment had the honour of being Aide-de-Camp for six years and a half to his ever to be lamented chief the late Sir Samford Whittingham; Aide-de-Camp for one year to the late Major-General the Honourable John Ramsay, and appointed by the British Government in India as Aide-de-Camp to his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, with whom Major Caine continued during the sojourn of His Royal Highness in the Bengal Presidency in 1838. Major Caine was also nominated in General Orders Brigade Major to the late (then Brigadier) General Oglander, in the Shekawatty force in 1834, and performed the duties of Aide-de-Camp to that deeply regretted officer from February, 1839,\n\nG\n\nI\n\n·P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260842, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "54\n\nuntil the arrival of the China Expedition at Singapore in June, 1840, where he joined his regiment. Two days after the first capture of Chusan he was appointed British Commissioner, and about three weeks afterwards Chief Magistrate of the Island of Chusan, which situation he filled until the following February on the evacuation of the island by the British troops. Major Caine was accidentally in command of the Cameronian Regiment for a few days in Canton River, when the Lieutenant-Colonel (James) had proceeded with the Commander-in-Chief to Whampoa in March, 1841. In May, 1841, Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong. When the force went against Canton in 1841, Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join his regiment, but was refused. (Vide letter No. 131, dated 22nd May, 1841, from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, herewith attached.) In September, 1843, was appointed Member of Council in this colony. In November, 1844, obtained through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application, an unattached majority. In November, 1846, promoted to Colonial Secretary and Auditor General. In April, 1847, when the expedition went against Canton, was left here in charge of the colony, as well as being Commandant of the garrison.\n\nEntered the service as Volunteer, 17th Foot, 8th November, 1813.\n\nEnsign, 17th Foot, 6th July, 1814. Lieutenant, 12th April, 1819.\n\nExchanged to 14th Foot, April, 1822.\n\nRemoved to 3rd Buffs on application, 16th March, 1826. Captain, 41st Foot, 9th December, 1827.\n\nExchanged 26th Foot, October, 1834.\n\nMajor by Brevet, 9th November, 1841. Major Unattached, November, 1844.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel by Brevet, November, 1851.\n\n(Signed)\n\n\"My dear Colonel,\n\nTrue copy.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n7\n\nBurhampoor, May 3, 1822. This has for its object the introduction to your favourable notice of Lieutenant W. Caine, lately exchanged from the 17th to the 14th Foot. During the time I have commanded the 17th, I have found him a most intelligent and zealous\n\n53\n\nofficer. He has been in the Light Company for three years, and has always proved an active smart officer; indeed, he has generally commanded the company, and finding him so useful in that charge, I have not taken his wings from him when his turn came to command a battalion company, but gave him, as his right, the payment of the right centre, and the command and general management of his own company, the captain of which being sick; though with the regiment, of course drew the command allowance, consequently all the labour and responsibility fell to Lieutenant Caine, and therefore all the merit. I have never had the honour of being on service with the 17th, but the old officers tell me that Caine, as a volunteer in the Nepal war, at the attack of Jeetgurh, on the 3rd of January 1815, distinguished himself by bringing off all the ammunition which had been abandoned by the native detachments; that such had been made known by the late Major-General Hardyman to the Marquis of Hastings, who instantly rewarded our young friend with an Ensigncy, antedated ten months, to give him rank. Caine carried the regimental colour at the storming of the heights of Jhubbulpoor, and was the first officer of the right wing who made a lodgement on the Saint's Tomb, where in the teeth of the Arabs he planted his colour, aided by one colour serjeant and seven men. He there had a personal contest with the Arab Chief, whom he shot. I mention these particulars to insure Caine your protection, as he is a fine young fellow, who will (opportunity offering) distinguish himself, and be a credit to his regiment. You will find him well acquainted with the native language, and always willing to make himself useful. In manners and conduct, he is very gentlemanlike, and his departure from the regiment (in which he has been since he was three years of age) is productive of sincere regret to his brother officers.\"\n\nVery sincerely yours,\n\n(Signed)\n\nColonel J. McCombe, Commanding 14th Foot, Meerut.\n\n\"My dear Sir,\n\nW. T. EDWARDS,\n\nColonel 17th Foot.\n\nTrue copy\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nMeerut, September 18, 1825. With the permission of Colonel McCombe, Commanding the 14th Regiment, I have the honour thus to give testimony\n\n67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260845, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "60\n\n14th Regiment, accompanied him throughout, and distinguished himself particularly.\"\n\nHis Excellency\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) SAMFORD WHITTINGHAM,\n\nMajor-General.\n\nThe Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.B., &c.\n\nCommanding-in-Chief in India.\n\nTrue copy.\n\nHJ. Mula - Dimo, Colonial Secretary.\n\n13.\n\nEXTRACT from despatch marked \"Separate and Confidential,\" dated 21st November, 1846, from Governor Sir John Davis to Earl Grey.\n\n\"Both the claims and qualifications of Major Caine are so different from those of Mr. Shelley, that I could not hesitate as to the selection. Major Caine is now the oldest Civil servant of Hong Kong, having landed in 1841, and lived in a mat shed on the first occupation of this island, through the worst and most dangerous period. Mr. Shelley came out at the same time with myself, in 1844, with the chance of obtaining any vacant office. From my personal regard for Mr. Bruce, and at that gentleman's intercession, I gave Mr. Shelley the office of Auditor.\n\n\"The double duties which I have the honour to perform under your Lordship and Viscount Palmerston, and the responsibilities attached thereto, make it an act of mere justice to myself to employ as Secretary a person on whose diligence, steadiness, and general ability I can perfectly rely. Mr. Shelley possesses many agreeable qualities, but the enclosed letter addressed by my direction to that gentleman is only one of the frequent occasions on which I have had to remonstrate with him on the neglect of his duties and the absenting himself from his office, and as he owed his employment to myself, this should not have occurred. Such habits would be totally inconsistent with the office of Secretary, whose constant attendance I require, and in respect to which regular attendance I find Major Caine all that I could wish.\"\n\nTrue extract.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n61\n\n14.\n\n70\n\nEXTRACT from despatch marked \"Separate and Confidential,\" dated 27th November, 1846, from Governor Sir John Davis to Earl Grey.\n\n\"Mr. Shelley adds, that no injustice would have been done to Major Caine had he been appointed Colonial Secretary. The injustice would have been great, that of appointing a negligent and unfit person for a diligent and fit one.\"\n\nTrue extract.\n\nW. SIMONS, Colonial Secretary.\n\nEXTRACT from despatch No. 41, of 19th April, 1847, from Governor Sir John Davis to the Earl Grey.\n\n\"The Major-General's report will put your Lordship in possession of the military details of our short expedition of seven days, and I have only to add that the able dispositions of Major Caine, the Colonial Secretary, who was Acting Governor and Commandant in my absence, ensured the safety and tranquillity of the colony.\"\n\nTrue extract.\n\nJef WI. Mas, Colonial Secretary.\n\n15.\n\nEXTRACT from despatch marked \"Separate,\" of 29th October, 1850, from Governor Sir George Bonham to Earl Grey.\n\n\"2. Major Caine has spent forty-seven years of his life in Asia, and during thirty-seven years has been employed as a soldier and civilian in the public service. In the former capacity he has served either on the Staff or immediately under the eye of several of the most distinguished General Officers who have held commands in India, and their letters and memoranda, of which copies are inclosed in his letter to myself, unanimously attest his activity, utility, and distinguished gallantry in camp and field. As a civilian, both Sir Henry Pottinger and Sir John Davis have spoken in the highest terms of his zeal and efficiency, and I can but repeat the assurance which I have already had the honour to convey to your Lordship of my perfect concurrence with my predecessors in his title to their good opinion. He was for long\n\n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288812, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "in 1853.\n\nDragoons. I was a Cornet..\n\nthis was\n\nyou admit\n\nmaking there Statements? _ I decline to\n\nanswer\n\n2.\n\nYou are\n\nby the creation.\n\nPolice Commission Official\n\nrecord made to state\n\nthat after you resigned\n\nfrom the Army you went to Australia. I assisted Commandant Pottinger\n\nin organizing, and\n\nAfterwards Commanded the Mounted Police of the Victoria Gold District,\n\nI cannot remember\n\nthe year now.\n\nThis\n\nwas\n\nI decline to answer\n\n183\n\n\"during La Trobe's \"Governorship .. I was\n\n\"absent two\n\nyears\n\nin\n\n\"Connection with the \"Gold Escort Troop. I\n\n#1\n\n\"was then severely\n\n\"wounded\n\non duty in\n\nan encounter with bushrangers\n\n\"and I returned to England.\n\nA\n\nIs this\n\nconnected Report Evidence! If\n\nthat question with all of your\n\ndue deference and\n\nrespect.\n\nnot wherein is it incorrect\n\n3.\n\nI now have to call\n\nYour careful attention\n\nto the following excerpt from the Secretary's\n\nMinutes of the Evidence", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "Land\n\nLedion\n\nas Aid-de-Camp & His Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, With Tour Major Caine continued during the sojourn of this Royal Highness in the Bengal Presidency in 1838. Major Caine was also nominated in several orders, Brigade Major to the late (then Brigadier) General Oglander, in the Chekawatty Force in 1834, and performed the duties of Aid-de-Camp to that deeply regretted Officer from February, 1839, until the arrival of the China Expedition at Singapore in June 1840, where he joined his Regiment. Two days after the first capture of Chusan he was appointed British Commissioner, and about three weeks afterwards, Chief Magistrate of the Island of Chusan. His situation was filled until the following February on the Evacuation of the Island by the British Troops. Major Caine was accidentally in Command of the Cameronian Regiment for a few days in Canton river, when the Lieutenant-Colonel proceeded in the steamer to Whampoa in March, 1841. In May 1841, Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong. When the Force went against Canton in 1841, Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to permit him to join his Regiment, but was refused.\n\n225 May 1841,\n\n(vide letter No. 131, dated 22nd May 1841, from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, herewith attached.) In September 1843, was appointed member of Council in this Colony. In November, 1844, obtained through the kindness of His Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Henry Pottinger's application, his Majority. In November, 1846, promoted Colonial Secretary & Auditor. In April, 1847, when the Expedition went against Canton, was left here in charge of the Colony, being Commandant of the Garrison as well as Colonial Secretary.\n\nTrue Copy\n\n(Signed) W. J. Mercer,\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nExtract from Despatch marked \"Separate\" of 29 October, 1850, from Governor Sir George Bonham to Earl Grey\n\n\"2. Major Caine has spent forty-seven years of his life in Asia, and during thirty-seven years has been employed as a soldier and Civilian in the public Service. In the former capacity he has served either on the staff or immediately under the eye of several of the most distinguished General Officers who have held Commands in India, and their letters, which copies are Enclosed in his letter to me, unanimously attest his activity, utility, and distinguished gallantry in Camp and Field. As a civilian, both Sir Henry Pottinger and Sir John Francis Davis have spoken in the highest terms of his zeal and efficiency, and I can but repeat the assurance which I have already had the honor to convey to your Lordship of my perfect concurrence with my predecessors in his title to their good opinion.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290128, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 292, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "Land \n\nMissa \n\nLondon \n\n8th July 1872 \n\nSon Packandfums Man Connel \n\nb \n\nRems. LCB \n\nR.G. M. Herbert. \n\nUnder Sect. of State \n\nThs. Jethroy Rice. Hriskany \n\nPolice. \n\nEvidence given by \n\nprevious position. \n\nas the \n\nInconsistent with report \n\nby Col. Hemenom - p. \n\nMetrop\". Police \n\n2. Enditures \n\nHongkong Mice Commission. \n\n- from Minutes \n\nExtract from \n\nMemorandum... \n\nJr S. F. Rice \n\n287 \n\nI find from the Now. The Acting Colonial Secretary: (6.6. Smith) that du Rice's Adictous as given by himself & the Shauki Wan Commistion was \n\nby any \n\nhot reduced & w \n\nwriting \n\nMember \n\nof that \n\nCommission, & no record of it remains. The following, hawever, \n\nis what the Con. C. May, that Commission, said of it before \n\nул The Police Enquiry Commission; \n\nMember \n\nof \n\nMarch. 16. 1872 \n\nane. \n\nex \n\nArw \n\nA \n\nThe Iron. C. May, states. Ins Rise was examined in the \n\nShan. Hi Naw case. I myself failed to find out that he had ever been attached & any Blice Service. \n\nThe account he gave \n\nwas a very hady almost certain di Rice was never in the Metropolitan Police as a member of it. I do not know such special officers attached to the Mchopolitan Police as In Rice describes himself to have been. never heard before of a tuperintendent attached to the ecome Ceretary's Office. Mr Rice does not seem t have been attached & any Police to for learn. \n\nFebruary. 16. 1872 \n\nThomas Fitzroy Rice, dales. \n\n(Police) experience \n\na-o \n\nof any \n\nI can \n\nI have had Conerderable in London & other plants of lengland- I commenced by Seubles carcer as a Commuctioned. Officer \n\nThe Cavalry, after 18 months & resigned, & tent & Auxhalia. I axxisted Commandant Bottinger \n\nand Iafterwards Commanded the \n\nm \n\nm \n\nargamiting, and a unter Police of the Bretoria Gold event. 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