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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern Cabinet (search)
f true, would cost her money. Her avarice had become inexorable. She could not 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 designed to invade England. Parma amused the Ambassadors with entertainments for six months. Even after the Armada had entered the Channel, and exchanged broadsides with Effingham, these negotiations were going on. The Queen's parsimony had left the Kingdom absolutely defenceless. On paper, Sir John Norris, under the orders of Leicester, had 28,000 men. In reality, he never had 4,000. On paper, Elizabeth had a body guard of 36,000. It existed on paper alone. Her famous speech at Tilbury was not made until eleven days after the Spanish fleet had been dispersed by the storm, and when there was no longer any danger.--Her avarice was 50 great that she could not be i