Le blocus pacifique doit etre declare et notifie officiellement, et maintenu par une force suffisante.
"Les navires de la puissance bloquee qui ne respectent pas un pareil blocus peuvent etre sequestres.

Le blocus ayant cesse, ils doivent etre restitues avec leur cargaisons a leurs proprietaires, mais sans dedommagement a aucun titre." If the French wish to reap the full advantages of a blockade of the Siamese coast they must be prepared, by becoming belligerent, to face the disadvantages which may result from the performance by this country of her duties as a neutral.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T.E.HOLLAND.
Athenaeum Club, July 26 (1893).
PACIFIC BLOCKADE Sir,--The letter signed "M." in your issue of this morning contains, I think, some statements which ought not to pass uncorrected.

A "blockade" is, of course, the denial by a naval squadron of access for vessels to a defined portion of the coasts of a given nation.

A "pacific blockade" is one of the various methods--generically described as "reprisals," such as "embargo," or seizure of ships on the high seas--by which, without resort to war, pressure, topographically or otherwise limited in extent, may be put upon an offending State.

The need for pressure of any kind is, of course, regrettable, the only question being whether such limited pressure be not more humane to the nation which experiences it, and less distasteful to the nation which exercises it, than is the letting loose of the limitless calamities of war.
The opinion of statesmen and jurists upon this point has undergone a change, and this because the practice known as "pacific blockade" has itself changed.