to exist until his arrival, one of which contained three hundred houses and a great quantity of stores. The squadron under his orders also captured thirty sail of vessels employed in the negro trade; and many more would no doubt have shared the same fate, but for the circumstance of his being obliged to leave the station in order to procure supplies at St. Helena, the provisions of the ships ordered to convoy the homeward bound trade having been completed from the Ulysses.
At St. Helena, Captain Browne received information of Buonaparte’s flight from Elba; and finding a very valuable fleet of Indiamen waiting there for the protection of a ship of war, he resolved to sacrifice his prospects of making a fortune rather than allow them to run the risk of being captured. Unfortunately the passage home presented him with no opportunity of resigning his charge to any other ship of force; and tranquillity having been restored in Europe previous to his arrival, the service he had rendered was not looked upon in so important a light as it otherwise would have been. It was, however, fully appreciated by the Hon. East India Company, who voted him a larger sum for the purchase of plate than had ever been given to any Captain before him[1]. Since that period he has not been employed.
Mrs. Browne is the eldest daughter of the late ___ Jenkins, Esq., who was lost in a hurricane on the West India station, just after his promotion to the command of the Guachapin sloop of war. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were also commissioned officers in the royal navy.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude.
RIGHT HON. LORD EDWARD O’BRYEN.
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer is a brother of the Marquis of Thomond, and of Lord James O’Bryen, Captain R.N.[2] He obtained postrank April 29, 1802; and was Private Secretary to Lord Mulgrave, during that nobleman’s naval administration. His lordship has been three times married; viz. 1st, in 1805, to Diana, eldest daughter of General George Hotham,
- ↑ The fleet alluded to was worth 10,000,000l. sterling.
- ↑ See p. 212.
