Sulphur bomb-vessel, Commander William Townsend Dance, sailed at the same time, having on board a detachment of the 63rd regiment, under Captain Irwin, to be landed as a protection against the incursions of the natives.
AMOS FREEMAN WESTROPP, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1818.]
Was made lieutenant, in 1797; commander, Aug. 12, 1812; and post-captain, Dec. 7, 1818. On the 24th Oct. 1812, being then in the Peruvian brig, stationed at the Leeward Islands, he captured the American privateer schooner Yankee, of 7 guns and 44 men. He subsequently commanded the Bucephalus troop-ship, and Childers sloop of war.
Agents.– Messrs. Atkins and Son.
GEORGE BRINE Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1818.]
A son of the late Admiral James Brine, and brother to Captain Augustus Brine, R.N.
This officer entered the navy, in 1797, as midshipman on board the Glory 98, then commanded by his father, and attached to the Channel fleet. In the following year, a diabolical plan, formed by about 150 of her crew, to throw all their officers overboard, and then run the ship into Brest harbour, was disclosed by one of the conspirators, who had taken offence at his infamous colleagues’ refusal to spare Mr. George Brine, from whom he had received frequent marks of kindness[1].
On his father being made a Rear-Admiral, in 1799, Mr. Brine joined the Prince 98, bearing the flag of Sir Roger Curtis, with whom he afterwards proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope, in the Lancaster 64. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant took place on that station, April 15, 1803; and he returned from thence, with the same officer, in the Diomede of 50 guns.
