19 SEPTEMBER 1903, Page 13

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIB,—Let me entreat you

to use your great influence with the English people to urge on Lord Lansdowne the duty of England to befriend the Bulgarians, and the political wisdom of such action. Lord Lansdowne is a man of generous and noble impulses, as well as of perfect self-control. He took np

warmly the cause of the Bulgarians, and stood by Mr. Glad- stone in his denunciation of them. Let him take up the cause of the Bulgarian Macedonians now, and let the country stand by him if he sends our fleet to Besika Bay, even if in the end it must force the Hellespont and bombard the Sultan's Palace in Constantinople.—I am, Sir, &c., X. Y. Z.