... was, of course, absurd. To raise a blockade, it would be necessary to drive away the blockading vessels altogether and hold the positions they occupied, yet, strange to say, the foreign consuls at Charleston , and an officer commanding one of Her Britannic Majesty's ships-of-war, united in a statement that the blockade of Charleston had been raised! The New Ironsides, Powhatan, and Canandaigua were im...