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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 207, 23 March 1877, Page 5

t In 1557, when the armada was in preparation, Queen Elizabeth tried to draw Sultan Amurath 111. mto an alliance with her against Philip and the Poi>e Von Hammer gives the letters written on the occasion. With characteristic astuteness she appe lied to the religious sympathies ol the Turk, making common cam* with him as the " destroyer of idolatry," and declaring that together they could " strike down the proud .-paniard and the lying Pope with all their adherent*." Such w«n the representations made by the English envoy as to the religious belief of hU auean and nation, that one of the Turkish ministers remarked to the Austrian ambauador that *' nothing more was wanted to turn the English into good Mussulmans than that they should lilt a fingar and recite the Esh-Jad " (or creed of Mahomet). (To be continued.)