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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Cabinet (search)
Hume will probably be content still to think, that England, under Heaven, owed her safety to two personages — Lord Treasurer Burleigh and Queen Elizabeth.--Mr. Motley clearly establishes the fact that nothing can be farther from the truth than Elizanot be induced to pat the kingdom in a state of defence. She sent Ambassadors over to Ostend, to negotiate with Parma. Burleigh actually wrote to that great General and consummate dissembler, begging him to tell him, in truth, whether he really desing to pay all expenses himself. Mr. Motley makes it abundantly clear, that if England had depended on Elizabeth or Burleigh for safety, she would have been lost. Burleigh was one of those successful, mediocre men, so often met with in history,Burleigh was one of those successful, mediocre men, so often met with in history, whose sole statesmanship begins and ends with getting and keeping office. He knew the Queen did not wish to believe in the Spanish invasion, and he encouraged her not to believe anything so unpleasant. In that way he kept his office, and got credi