§ SIR CHARLES NAPIERsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War under whose direction the Fortifications at Hilsea and Browndown are constructing; as it appears from the plan laid upon the Table of the House, that other Fortifications are to be constructed to protect them.
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTsaid, that in a system of detached forts each must act as a support to the other. The works at Hilsea were of great importance, because they commanded the space between Portsmouth and Hilsea Harbour. Judging, however, from the difficulty of access to Brown-down, it had only been thought necessary to have one fort there.