If she would only, accept the sovereignty, the amount which the Provinces would pay was in a manner boundless.

She was assured that the revenue of her own hereditary realm was much inferior to that of the possessions thus offered to her sway.
In regard to constitutional polity, the condition of the Netherlands was at least, as satisfactory as that of England.

The great amount of civil freedom enjoyed by those countries--although perhaps an objection--in the eyes of Elizabeth Tudor--should certainly have been a recommendation to her liberty-loving subjects.

The question of defence had been satisfactorily answered.

The Provinces, if an integral part of the English empire, could protect themselves, and would become an additional element of strength--not a troublesome encumbrance.
The difference of language was far, less than that which already existed between the English and their Irish fellow-subjects, while it was counterbalanced by sympathy, instead of being aggravated by mutual hostility in the matter of religion.
With regard to the great question of abstract sovereignty, it was certainly impolitic for an absolute monarch to recognize the right of a nation to repudiate its natural allegiance.