Note 22 — CHAP. XXV. A NAVAL STUDY—continued.

Mr. Stokes, moreover swore, in his evidence, that the Ocean three-decker lay on the north-west edge of the Palles Shoal, and that the group lay on the western part of the same shoal, though the latter observation was incorrect, as the group lay around the Ocean, which formed a part of it. On his chart these vessels are placed to the SOUTH-EAST of the shoal, and the remainder nearly DUE EAST!! That is, in place of being “nearest the deep water,” where they were easily attackable, they were placed on the chart “farthest from the deep water,” where they were not attackable. He swore too that they lay with their broadsides “flanking the passage” to Aix Roads. On his chart, not one of them “flanks the passage,” but all are made to flank the opposite direction; so that they could not have fired on any British ship which might have been sent in.