The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 2 of 2: Seigneur of Bousbecque Knight, Imperial Ambassador (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq, Vol. 2 of 2: Seigneur of Bousbecque Knight, Imperial AmbassadorOf France, and sent letters to Augsburg next day for me to take to her.I was speaking to someone to-day who had come but lately from the Prince of Orange, and he said that negotiations 1 for peace had been opened with him through St. Aldegonde, who was a prisoner in the hands of the Royalists. He represented the Prince as strongly inclined for peace, but said that the cities, which had called him in, were no less strongly opposed to it, and would rather suffer the worst extremity than trust themselves to the Spaniards, or send Orange away. The same person told me that Leyden was starving, and must soon surrender.2 The Prince, he said, was not to blame for it, but the inhabitants, who, having been repeatedly warned to lay in stores in time, had obstinately neglected to do so. He also informed me that the Spanish ¿eet, if it was really coming, was to sail round Scotland, and that Orange had set up false beacons and lights on the coast to draw it among the shoals and sandbanks.Perhaps the information I have sent your Majesty is not Of much importance, still I feel sure that it will at least do no harm, and that with your accustomed graciousness you will not take my sending it amiss. I pray God to preserve your Majesty, and remain, &c., About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.