§ MR. DILLWYNsaid, he had to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether there is any truth in the report that it is the intention of Government to construct fortifications on the islands of the steep and flat Holmes and the adjacent coasts, for the protection of the upper part of the Bristol Channel?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, that lately, during the alarm of hostilities with the United States, many very pressing and urgent applications had been made to the Government with respect to the undefended state of the Bristol Channel, and in consequence of those representations it had been decided to erect some batteries—he could hardly dignify them with the name of fortifications—upon the islands to 272 which the question of his hon. Friend referred, and in the estimate which he would shortly lay upon the table, there would be included a sum applicable to that service.