On the 23d Oct. 1823, Sir Thomas Staines was appointed to the Superb of 78 guns: in the following month he conveyed part of the 12th regiment of foot from Portsmouth to Gibraltar: and we subsequently find him visiting Barbadoes, St. Vincent’s, Dominica, Bermuda, and Lisbon, at which latter place he continued for a very considerable period. The Superb was paid off Dec. 19, 1825.
Sir Thomas Staines enjoys a pension of 300l. per annum, granted to him for the loss of his arm, &c. He married, in May 1819, Sarah, youngest daughter of Robert Tournay Bargrave, of Eastry Court, Kent, Esq.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke and Halfords.
THOMAS BROWN, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Post commission dated Jan. 22, 1806. This officer commanded the Loire frigate, and was very actively employed on the coast of North America during the late war between Great Britain and the United States. On the 10th Dec. 1813 he captured the Rolla privateer of 5 guns and 80 men. In 1816, he was appointed to superintend the ordinary at Sheerness; and he subsequently served as flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Lambert, on the St. Helena station. His last appointment was, Oct. 16, 1822, to the Tartar of 42 guns, in which ship he sailed for South America, Feb. 5, 1823. Whilst there the celebrated Bolivar presented him with his portrait, as a mark of his regard and esteem, expressing, at the same time, through Colonel Peraz, his secretary, his regret, from being engaged in Alto-Peru, at not having a personal opportunity of taking leave of him previous to the Tartar’s departure from the Pacific. It should likewise be noticed, in proof of Captain Brown’s conciliatory and equitable conduct towards the contending parties, that the royalist General, Rodil (Bolivar’s greatest enemy), refused a request he made, to be permitted to purchase some ship’s stores at Callao, but generously added, that, as a mark of his esteem and friendship for him, he should take whatever his frigate required. The Tartar return-
