26/56 On April 9 it expressed a wish that Lord Salisbury would formulate a definite policy. Papers, Turkey (1878), Nos. The larger plans of the Rhodope insurgents and their abettors at Constantinople are not fully known. An Englishman, Sinclair, and some other free-lances were concerned in the affair. The Rhodope district long retained a kind of independence, see _Les Evenements politiques en Bulgarie_, by A.G.Drandar, Appendix.] The new Foreign Minister speedily availed himself of this offer; and the cause of peace was greatly furthered by secret negotiations which he carried on with Count Shuvaloff. |