On the 16th July, 1808, Captain John Maxwell, then commanding the Royalist, a brig of the largest class, captured the Danish schooner privateer Aristides, of 6 guns and 41 men. At the time he fell in with this vessel she was engaging an English packet, which must have been taken had not the Royalist come to her assistance. Between May 1, 1809, and Feb. 24, 1810, he reported the capture of five French privateers, viz. – la Princesse of 16 guns and 50 men; le Grand Napoleon, 18 guns, 75 men; l’Heureuse Etoile, 2 guns, 15 men; le Françoise, 14 guns, 60 men; and the Prince Eugene, 14 guns, 55 men. His post commission bears date June 15, 1810.
Captain Maxwell’s next appointment was, April 27, 1812, to the Favorite of 20 guns, in which ship he visited all the British settlements on the coast of Africa, destroyed several slave factories on the Rio Pongus, and captured four Portuguese ships, which he found employed in that cruel traffic. After the peace with France, in 1814, Captain Maxwell was appointed to the Barrosa of 42 guns; and in Feb. 1825, he received a commission for the Aurora 46, on board which frigate he died, when about to proceed from Plymouth to Bermuda and the West Indies, May 31, 1826.
PHILIP BROWNE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
The old and respectable family to which this officer belongs, have long been settled at Godmanstone, co. Dorset. His ancestor, Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Browne, Knt. was Captain of a ship attached to the squadron under Sir William Monson, at the capture of a Spanish galleon, in 1602[1]. His father, Captain Philip Browne, R.N. lost his life when defending Savannah, in 1779[2], and his two brothers also died
- ↑ See Schomberg’s Naval Chronology, Vol. I, p. 34.
- ↑ See Royal Nav. Biog. Vol. I, Part I, p. 66 et seq. N.B. On referring to the official report of General Prevost, who commanded the British troops at Savannah, we find it stated, – “that owing to the zeal, vigilance, and exertion of Captain Philip Browne, of H.M.S. Roue, first by sink-
