The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-04-17
Inconsistencies of England-Her .'Stone
B~lockades.

England has herself heretofore done or at
tempted to do u little - barbarisD, y as she styles
il now, in the way of closing up hHrbOrs with
stone. In Galignani's Messenger of January
18th, IL the following from. 4 correspondent:
The Times of Saturday. in an elaborate article
on the destruction Of the port of Charleston 10y
sinking hulks filled with blocks Of granite ON the
bar, proceeds to charge it exclusively ON the
ierocity and vindictiveness OF the American
character, confidently demanding. When has
such an act been p-rPetrated 10y any European
power 2" 10 which the editor exulringly replies,
- This savage innovation has been lett TO reIub-
iicans Of our own day On reading this un-
wLrrantable assertion, 1 felt that no amount
OF patriotism could justify the suppression OF a
public denial OF the statement. This decd U!
war, 50 justly reprohated 10y the Tunes, is not
the first OF It's kind. Parental England set the
atrOciOus example. On the evacuation of the
city and port of Alexandria. and cmhtrkutiun of
the troops, in 1907, five vessels laden with stones
were sunk in the narrow passage by which our
squadron, under the command of Admiral Lewis,
had entered, and then sailed, concluding that 1t
would be the last exit of any vessel from that
port-errnneUusly, however, Us 1t has subsequent
ly appeared,
Let il not be forgotten, moreover, that the
port OF Savannah is even now, or was only nine
years since, suffering from a stone fleet blockade
on the part of England in 1873. The evidence
IL contained in the Report of the Omitted
States) Commission Appointed to examine Savan-
nah River and HarbOr, and made 10 the War
Department, February IL, 1858. 1t is signed
by - j. F. Gilmer, LIST Lieutenant of Engineers
and Reporter, a. II. Bowman, Captain of
Engineers and \. D.. Bache, Superintendent
of United States Coast Survey as Commission
ers. We quote from the report
Ascending the river. (the Savannah) the
next obstruction met with is 'Four-mile point
bar composed of sand and mud the depth of
the channel here is also 20 feet at low tide.
Above Four-mile Point the channel is deep until
we come to the wrecks Is miles above Tybee,
and 2 miles below the City Exchange. They
form the most serious impeachment to the naviga-
ton of the lower river. reducing the channel TO 4
depth of about s feet at mean low tide. The
wrecks at this point were sunk during the Revo-
luton Q719) by direction of the commander of
the English forces, then in possession of Savan-
nah, to block the entrance to the Front river, as
IL protection against the approach of the French
and American fleets. So far AS can be- ascertaineG,
the vessels sunk Were the following: His Majesty's
ship Rose, the Savannah armed ship, purchased
into the Kings service some time before, and
four Transports, which blocked up the channel"
Even as late as 1853 IA Congressional appropri-
alton was made - for the removal Of distractions
in the Savannah river, at n place called the
W recks, and the improvement of the navigation
Of said river, 100000"
The modern doctrine in England is that as she
has always been 4 miserable sinner, no precedent
properly he made of her wicked acts. She
and repents, but warns the world against
her own example.-BuHetin.