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The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a Confederate gunboat at Liverpool.--a shipyard under Surveilllance. (search)
sel, however, is now in charge of Government officials, and no doubt the investigation which is to take place will elucidate whether there were guns on board or not. The excitement among the gentlemen of Southern proclivities is very great. Laird's famous shipyard, at Liverpool, where the Alabama was built, it would seem from the following paragraph of a Liverpool letter, published in the Manchester Guardian, is also to be watched: The Government, in addition to the seizure of the Aernment, in addition to the seizure of the Alexandria on the Liverpool side of the Mersey, are about, if they have not already done so, to put the building yard of Messrs. Laird & Brothers, at Birkenhead, under a kind of surveillance, as it is no longer doubted in Liverpool that the two gunboats now in course of construction at the Birkenhead Iron Works are intended for the Confederate Government. Information, we know, has been received in Liverpool of the above intention of the Government.