It is not usual to keep Englishmen in gaol on the ground that they committed an offence of which they have not been convicted, and against which they have had no opportunity of defending themselves." But Sir William Harcourt thought otherwise, and kept us in prison, acting at once as prosecutor, witness, jury and judge.
Mr.Gladstone was appealed to, but he "regretted he could do nothing," presumably because we were only Englishmen and not Bulgarians.

An answer to this piece of callous hypocrisy came from the London clubs.

One resolution passed by the Combined Radical Clubs of Chelsea, representing thousands of working men, characterised our continued imprisonment as an indelible stigma on the Liberal Government..