piles, and from which are suspended three hundred and sixty-two rods, connected by an iron bar, on which the platform rests. The length of the esplanade, along which carriages pass, from the Steyne to the beginning of the pier, is one thousand two hundred and fifty feet.
Commander Brown married, Aug. 14th, 1822, Mary, daughter of Mr. John Home, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh.
ROBERT TOM BLACKLER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Feb. 1800; and was wounded while serving as first of the Iphigenia frigate. Captain Henry Lambert, in the disastrous affair at Port Sud-Est, Aug. 24th, 1810[1]. His commission as commander bears date Aug. 2d, 1811.
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW HOAR CURRAN, Esq.
[Commander.]
A son of the late Right Hon. John Philpot Curran, formerly Master of the Rolls in Ireland, Member of the Privy Council, &c. &c.
This officer was made a lieutenant in June, 1806; promoted to the rank of commander, Aug. 2d, 1811; appointed to the Elk sloop, fitting out for the East India station, Nov. 11th, 1813; and removed from that vessel to the Tyne 24, in Mar. 1816. The latter ship returned home, and was paid off at Plymouth, previous to Jan. 1817; since which he has not been employed.
WILLIAM KELLY (b), Esq.
[Commander.]
(Seniority 23d August, 1811.)
