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of Lord Canning, who, however, loyally stood by his represen
tative, whose steps in chartering ships, purchasing horses,
employing agents, and incurring liabilities, were duly authorized,
and his accounts, amounting to a very large sum, were passed
in the lump, without audit or explanation as to items. Lords
Canning and Elphinstone, as well as Sir James Higginson and
Sir George Grey, united in applauding Captain Jenkins' con
duct of a difficult mission, and, finally, the Secretary of State
for India wrote, on the part of Her Majesty, a special letter of
thanks. The following is the letter, signed by Sir Charles
Wood, on the part of the Queen, and dated u India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , 11th
of June, 1870:—The excellent service performed by you
during the Mutiny and disturbances in India in 1857-58, while
proceeding to the Cape and the Mauritius for reinforcements,
has been brought to the notice of the Queen, and I have been
commanded to convey to you the gracious approbation of Her
Majesty, of your conduct during that critical period."
The late 'Sir George Edmonstone, then Secretary in the
Foreign Department, wrote on the 5th of October, 1857
"The Governor-General in Council highly recommends the
energy and good judgment with which you have executed the
mission entrusted to you. The steps taken by you for diverting
the passage of the troops who were proceeding from England
to China and Australia, to British India, are approved. Mr.
(now Sir) Henry L. Anderson, Secretary to the Bombay Go
vernment, conveyed " the commendation of Government for the
tact, energy, and judgment, with which he had performed the
duty assigned to him," and Lord Elphinstone, in his Minute of
the 18th of August, 1859, expressing thanks to such officers as
had rendered eminent service to the Government during the
rebellion in Western India, mentions, in the following terms,
the opportuneness of the arrival of the troops from Mauritius
and the Cape" No one on this side of India is likely to have
forgotten the relief which was experienced when the 66vd
Regiment and Captain Bolton's Company of Royal Artillery
arrived at Bombay. We had just heard of the Mutiny of the
27th Native Infantry at Kolapore; the state oi the bouthern
Mahratta country was daily becoming more critical; the L^ r( >
pean troops in the garrison of Bombay were less than three
hundred strong. At this moment the arrival oi an en ire
European Regiment and of fifty Artillerymen, was of incal
culable value. It enabled us to send off the whole of the
European troops in garrison to Kolapore and Belgaum. ihe
arrival of the 33rd was followed (about a month afterwards) by
that of the 89th from the Cape of Good Hope, which was
immediately despatched to Guzerat, which, up to t a ime, ^
been almost without European troops. Other regimen s an
batteries of Artillery were, subsequently, sent from the Cape ot
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