the Marquis of Dalhousie, and Viscount Palmerston. In this office, Mr. Pain was under-sheriff of the Cinque Ports, two ancient towns and their members; clerk of Lieutenancy. Clerk of the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports; clerk to the Commissioners of Salvage at Dover; and clerk of the Court of Loadmanage, being the court which controlled and managed the pilots of Dover, Deal, Ramsgate and Margate. The principal duties of the office have been abolished or transferred to other jurisdictions by successive Acts of Parliament, and the only duties which now remain are those of clerk of Lieutenancy and clerk to Commissioners of Salvage at Dover. Mr. Pain, on the 30th of July, 1803, was appointed lieutenant in the first battalion of Cinque Ports Volunteers, commanded by the Rt Hon. William Pitt, then Lord Warden, and after the dissolution of that corps – namely, 26th of September, 1810, was appointed by the Earl of Liverpool, Captain of a company in the Cinque Ports regiment of local militia, in which corps he served until its dissolution at the close of the French war.
The Hastings Magnates at Dover.
A correspondent of the Fifeshire Herald, who said he had a place given him amongst the reporters at the Installation ceremony at Dover, thus described our Hastings Mayor; “Next came the Mayor of Hastings, in a magnificent scarlet gown, with a broad blue ribbon round the nect(sic) to which was suspended a grand ornament, set in gold, and in which was painted the Hastings arms. Soloman in all his glory could not have made a finer show. He had also under his gown a volunteer dress; for, he is surgeon to the regiment – surgeon, rifleman, artilleryman and mayor ‘like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once’. And after him a long train of mayors, &c, some with robes and some without, but none so resplendent as the Hastings magnified. Indeed, not a few of these gentlemen, to my mind, looked rather seedy.”
After a sketch of Lord Palmerston, Mr. Bodkin (the Dover recorder) and others, the same writer referred to Capt. Waldegrave, thus:-
“The only special attendant on Lord Palmerston was a gentleman you ought to know something about – the Hon. George Waldegrave. He wore for the occasion the blue and gold uniform of Her Majesty’s high officers of the Household. It was to me a rather interesting sight to see the members of an ancient and noble house in attendance on the Premier. It reminded me of the old times, when the scions of our great families acted as squires to knights and barons. Mr. Waldegrave must have had his hands full on that day, for until the moment when he was required to attend the Lord Warden he acted as field officer in command of the Volunteers; and, further, he was a member of the Committee of Management, the life and spirit of the whole affair Mr. Waldegrave is about to leave these parts , to live in Fifeshire; and -
