Bien Public), W.J.  Ramsey, J. Wilks, Mrs. Wilks, J.E.  Symes, E. Martin,
W.E.  Adams, Mrs. Adams, John Bryson (President of the Northumberland
Miners’ Mutual Confident Association), Ralph Young, J. Grout, Mrs. Grout,
General Cluseret, A. Talandier (Member of the Chamber of Deputies), J.
Baxter Langley, LL.D., M.R.C.S., F.L.S.”

Mrs. Fenwick Miller’s letter of adhesion is worthy republication; it puts so tersely the real position: 

“59, Francis Terrace.  Victoria Park.  “March 31st.

“My dear Mrs. Besant,—­I feel myself privileged in having the opportunity of expressing both to you and to the public, by giving you my small aid to your defence, how much I admire the noble position taken up by Mr. Bradlaugh and yourself upon this attempt to suppress free discussion, and to keep the people in enforced ignorance upon the most important of subjects.  It is shameful that you should have to do it through the cowardice of the less important person who might have made himself a hero by doing as you now do, but was too weak for his opportunities.  Since you have had to do it, however, accept the assurance of my warm sympathy, and my readiness to aid in any way within my power in your fight.  Please add my name to your Committee.  You will find a little cheque within:  I wish I had fifty times as much to give.

“Under other circumstances, the pamphlet might well have been withdrawn from circulation, since its physiology its obsolete, and consequently its practical deductions to some extent unsound.  But it must be everywhere comprehended that this is not the point.  The book would have been equally attacked had its physiology been new and sound; the prosecution is against the right to issue a work upon the special subject, and against the freedom of the press and individual liberty.—­Believe me, yours very faithfully,

R. FENWICK MILLER.”

Among the many received were letters of encouragement from General Garibaldi, M. Talandier, Professor Emile Acollas, and the Rev. S.D.  Headlam.

As we did not care to be hunted about London by the police, we offered to be at Stonecutter Street daily from 10 to 11 a.m. until we were arrested, and our offer was readily accepted.  Friends who were ready to act as bail came forward in large numbers, and we arranged with some of them that they should be within easy access in case of need.  There was a little delay in issuing the warrants for our arrest.  A deputation from the Christian Evidence Society waited on Mr. (now Sir Richard) Cross, to ask that the Government should prosecute us, and he acceded to their request.  The warrants were issued on April 3rd, and were executed on April 5th.  The story of the arrest I take from my own article in the National Reformer, premising that we had been told that “the warrants were in the hands of Simmons”.