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The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a Confederate gunboat at Liverpool .--a shipyard under Surveilllance. (search)
Seizure of a Confederate gunboat at Liverpool.--a shipyard under Surveilllance.
Considerable excitement was created in Liverpool on the 6th ult. by the seizure of the gunboat Alexandria by the custom-house authorities, on suspicion that she was intended for the service of the Confederates.
A Liverpool letter in the London Daily News gives the following particulars of the seizure:
It had been well known for some weeks past that one gunboat, if not more, was fitting out in some of the minor docks in Liverpool, and those employed about them made no secret of the destination for which they were intended.
On the facts coming to the knowledge of Mr. Dudley, the United States Consul at Liverpool, he at once communicated with the American Minister in London, and the result was that inquiries were instituted into the whole of the proceedings bearing upon the building of the vessel seized.
These inquiries appear to have been so far successful that the British Government sent down