 Sir Francis Burdett, a reformist MP, was jailed for three months for publishing a seditious libel.Percy Bysshe Shelley was in Italy and did not hear of the massacre until 5 September.His poem, "The Masque of Anarchy", subtitled "Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" was sent for publication in the radical periodical "The Examiner", but because of restrictions on the radical press it was not published until 1832, ten years after the poet's death.