A letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident in England in K. Ch. the Second's reign) which may serve for an answer to the impostures of Sir. Wm. Temple, heretofore ambassador from England at the Hague and at Nimeguen ... : together with some remarks upon his memoirs, to make appear how grosly he is mistaken in the greatest part of the most important matters he relates concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679.
Lettre de Monsieur Du Cros à Mylord **** afin de servir de réponse aux impostures de Monsieur le Chevalier Temple. English
Du Cros, Simon, 17th cent.
1693
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A letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident in England in K. Ch. the Second's reign) which may serve for an answer to the impostures of Sir. Wm. Temple, heretofore ambassador from England at the Hague and at Nimeguen ... : together with some remarks upon his memoirs, to make appear how grosly he is mistaken in the greatest part of the most important matters he relates concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679.
Lettre de Monsieur Du Cros à Mylord **** afin de servir de réponse aux impostures de Monsieur le Chevalier Temple. English
Du Cros, Simon, 17th cent.
33 [i.e. 32], [4] p.
[s.n.],
London :
1693.
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Temple, William, -- Sir, 1628-1699. -- Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672 to the peace concluded 1679.
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A
LETTER
FROM
Monsieur
de
CROS
,
(
Who
was
an
Embassador
at
the
Treaty
of
Nimeguen
,
and
a
Resident
in
England
,
in
K.
Ch.
the
Second's
Reign
.
)
Which
may
serve
for
an
Answer
to
the
Impostures
of
Sir
W
m
Temple
,
heretofore
Ambassador
from
England
at
the
Hague
,
and
at
Nimeguen
;
Till
such
time
as
a
more
ample
and
particular
Relation
be
made
of
the
Business
in
hand
.
Together
with
some
REMARKS
Upon
his
MEMOIRS
,
To
make
appear
how
grosly
he
is
mistaken
in
the
greatest
part
of
the
most
important
matters
he
relates
concerning
what
passed
from
the
Year
1672
,
until
the
Year
1679.
LONDON
,
Printed
in
the
Year
1693.
A
LETTER
from
Mons
.
de
Cros
,
&c.
My
Lord
,
I
Have
been
informed
of
the
Calumnies
that
Sir
W.
T.
hath
caused
to
be
Printed
against
me
.
I
know
very
well
that
Sir
W.
is
of
great
Worth
,
and
deserves
well
;
and
that
he
hath
been
a
long
time
employed
,
and
that
too
upon
important
occasions
;
but
I
am
as
certain
,
that
he
had
but
a
small
share
in
the
Secrecy
of
the
late
King
Charles's
Designs
in
the
greatest
part
of
the
Affairs
,
for
which
he
was
employed
,
from
72
,
till
79
,
which
is
the
main
Subject
of
his
Work.
This
Consideration
alone
might
not
perhaps
have
given
me
the
curiosity
,
or
at
least
,
any
great
earnestness
to
read
his
Memoirs
;
and
I
might
have
very
well
judged
that
I
could
draw
from
them
no
sufficient
light
and
insight
for
the
discovery
of
so
many
Intrigues
.
Nay
besides
,
I
might
have
doubted
whether
or
no
these
Memoirs
might
not
have
been
his
own
Panegyrick
upon
himself
,
and
the
diminution
and
undervaluing
of
the
real
Worth
and
Glory
of
several
Persons
of
Quality
,
and
distinguished
by
their
Merit
;
whose
Fortune
and
Reputation
Sir
W.
T.
hath
so
much
envied
:
for
I
am
particularly
acquainted
with
Sir
W's
Pride
.
He
looks
upon
himself
to
have
the
greatest
Reach
,
to
be
the
wisest
and
ablest
Politician
of
his
Time
;
and
a
man
may
perceive
abundance
of
Satyrical
Reflexions
scattered
here
and
there
in
his
Work
against
most
illustrious
Persons
,
and
that
he
hath
stuffed
his
Memoirs
with
his
own
Praise
,
and
the
fond
over-weening
Opinion
he
hath
of
himself
.
Without
doubt
this
is
quite
different
from
that
Sincerity
and
Modesty
which
reigns
throughout
the
Memoirs
of
Villeroy
,
in
the
Negotiations
and
Transactions
of
Jeanin
,
in
the
Letters
of
Card.
Dossat
,
those
mighty
and
truly
eminent
Persons
,
esteemed
as
such
by
the
greatest
Princes
of
their
Age
;
and
even
still
are
to
this
day
,
by
the
ablest
Politicians
,
with
much
more
Justice
and
Glory
than
Sir
W's
Book-Seller
stiles
him
,
One
of
the
Greatest
Men
of
this
Age.
It
had
been
Sir
W's
duty
to
have
regulated
himself
according
to
their
most
excellent
Pattern
.
I
shall
at
present
only
quote
one
Passage
,
which
I
accidentally
light
on
at
the
first
opening
his
Book
,
whereby
one
may
easily
guess
at
the
greatness
of
his
presumption
;
in
a
shorttime
,
My
Lord
,
I
shall
give
you
occasion
to
observe
many
others
.
The
Negotiations
,
saith
he
,
that
I
managed
and
transacted
at
the
Hague
,
at
Brussels
,
at
Aix
la
Chapelle
,
which
saved
Flanders
from
the
French
Clutches
,
in
68.
made
People
believe
I
had
some
Credit
and
Reputation
amongst
the
Spaniards
,
as
well
as
in
Holland
.
'T
was
a
Piece
of
strange
Ingratitude
of
the
Hollanders
and
Spaniards
,
as
well
as
of
his
own
dear
Country-men
,
so
much
concern'd
for
the
preservation
of
Flanders
,
not
to
rear
him
a
Statue
,
which
,
he
saith
,
some-where
else
,
Mr.
Godolphin
had
promised
him
.
Could
Sir.
W.
T.
have
done
any
thing
to
deserve
it
more
;
or
was
there
any
thing
more
worthy
of
Triumph
than
to
have
preserved
Flanders
,
a
Country
so
important
to
the
Spaniard
,
and
the
only
Bulwark
of
Holland
and
England
?
But
Sir
W.
was
apt
to
believe
he
could
not
find
any
one
who
was
better
able
to
hammer
out
his
own
Glory
than
himself
;
and
he
flattered
himself
with
the
Opinion
that
he
should
erect
himself
as
many
Statues
,
as
there
are
places
in
his
Memoirs
,
crouded
with
intolerable
and
ridiculous
Vain-glory.
It
was
not
the
Negotiations
,
my
Lord
,
that
Sir
W.
tells
us
he
managed
at
the
Hague
,
Brussels
,
and
at
Aix
la
Chappelle
,
which
saved
Flanders
from
the
hands
of
the
French
,
in
1668.
The
French
published
that
they
were
beholding
to
the
most
Christian
Kings
Moderation
for
that
Peace
;
who
was
willing
to
put
a
stop
to
the
progress
and
course
of
his
victorious
Arms.
But
the
truth
of
it
is
,
they
most
justly
ascribed
all
the
Merit
,
and
all
the
Glory
of
the
Peace
,
and
of
the
Triple
League
,
to
the
generous
resolution
and
stedfastness
of
the
States-General
.
They
made
use
,
upon
this
occasion
,
of
a
Minister
of
State
far
beyond
Sir
W.
in
Prudence
,
Experience
,
and
Capacity
,
one
,
who
was
in
the
Opinion
even
of
his
Enemies
,
the
most
able
Manager
of
Affairs
of
his
Age.
I
shall
not
undertake
,
my
Lord
,
in
this
place
,
strictly
to
examine
Sir
W.
Temple's
Memoirs
:
I
will
do
it
shortly
if
God
spare
me
with
Life
;
nay
,
and
I
promise
you
a
Volume
of
Remarks
,
at
least
,
as
large
as
his
Book
.
If
,
like
him
,
I
had
the
Vanity
to
procure
the
printing
of
Memoirs
,
during
my
life-time
,
I
could
now
have
a
fair
pretence
so
to
do
,
and
without
all
question
I
should
publish
more
just
and
solid
ones
than
his
are
.
Not
,
that
I
have
the
presumption
to
judge
my self
more
capable
to
do
it
;
but
,
in
several
places
he
relates
some
things
falsly
,
whereof
I
am
much
better
informed
.
The
only
Hero
of
my
piece
shall
be
Truth
,
without
Complaisance
or
Flattery
;
without
Passion
,
no
not
so
much
as
against
him
:
So
that
I
shall
do
him
the
satisfaction
and
kindness
to
instruct
him
better
,
even
touching
divers
Matters
,
which
he
performed
and
executed
,
without
knowing
so
much
as
the
reason
why
he
was
made
to
act
so
.
It
is
not
likewise
,
because
I
have
been
one
of
the
Council
of
the
King
his
Master
;
yet
I
have
had
the
Happiness
,
during
some
Years
,
to
partake
in
the
Confidence
of
a
Minister
of
State
,
who
was
in
several
important
,
weighty
Occasions
,
as
it
were
the
Primum
Mobile
of
that
Conduct
and
Management
that
surprized
all
the
World.
You
know
,
my
Lord
,
what
Credit
he
had
,
and
of
what
nature
his
Intelligences
were
.
Sir
W.
may
well
imagine
that
I
did
not
ill
improve
this
able
Ministers
Confidence
,
when
Sir
W.
tells
us
,
That
I
had
wholly
devoted
my self
to
him
.
Men
are
not
ignorant
likewise
,
that
oftentimes
I
have
had
some
access
to
the
King's
Ministers
of
State
,
and
even
near
to
the
King
himself
,
;
it
did
more
especially
appear
,
in
the
business
for
which
I
took
my
Journey
to
Nimeguen
;
and
it
would
be
a
great
shame
that
a
Man
more
cunning
and
subtil
than
them
all
,
according
to
the
King
's
own
Testimony
,
as
Sir
W.
relates
it
,
should
not
have
had
(
considering
so
much
freedom
of
access
and
easiness
)
the
address
and
cunning
to
dive
into
the
most
hidden
Springs
of
Deliberations
and
Resolutions
,
wherein
the
Swede
and
my
Master
had
so
great
an
Interest
.
Be
therefore
assured
,
my
Lord
,
that
after
my
Death
,
nay
perhaps
,
whilst
I
am
alive
,
if
need
require
,
and
if
I
be
obliged
thereto
,
there
will
appear
some
Memoirs
,
which
will
divulge
some
Matters
the
truth
whereof
is
still
so
carefully
concealed
,
Sir
W.
doth
ingeniously
confess
that
hither
to
he
was
ignorant
of
them
;
He
,
who
hath
so
much
quickness
of
Penetration
,
and
seems
to
make
us
believe
that
he
was
the
King
his
Master
's
Confident
.
You
your self
,
my
Lord
,
have
often
urged
me
to
acquaint
you
with
such
important
Secrets
,
and
of
such
great
Consequence
;
and
altho'
I
could
not
possibly
refuse
,
upon
the
account
of
that
honour
you
do
me
to
afford
me
any
share
in
your
Favours
,
to
let
you
have
a
glympse
of
one
part
of
what
pass'd
in
one
of
the
most
important
Negotiations
of
that
time
;
yet
you
had
so
much
Generosity
as
not
to
take
the
advantage
of
it
you
might
have
done
,
to
the
infallible
ruine
,
as
was
believed
,
of
a
Minister
whom
you
take
for
one
of
your
greatest
Enemies
;
yet
on
this
occasion
one
could
not
well
lay
any
thing
to
his
charge
,
besides
his
blind
obedience
to
the
Will
of
his
Master
.
The
Truth
of
it
is
,
I
am
not
obliged
to
have
the
same
Considerations
that
with
held
me
at
that
time
,
but
yet
I
preserve
a
profound
respect
for
the
Memory
of
the
late
King
,
and
also
a
great
respect
for
some
Persons
,
who
are
even
at
this
time
of
the
day
so
much
concerned
,
that
I
should
hold
my
tongue
,
if
it
were
not
for
that
reason
,
it
would
be
a
very
easie
matter
for
me
,
to
make
appear
without
any
more
adoe
,
how
basely
Sir
W.
is
mistaken
in
what
he
delivers
concerning
divers
Negotiations
of
England
;
and
especially
concerning
my
Journey
to
Nimeguen
.
My
Design
is
not
at
all
,
my
Lord
,
to
write
you
a
Letter
full
of
Invectives
against
Sir
W.
I
shall
not
descend
to
the
Particulars
of
his
Behaviour
,
and
shall
tell
you
no
more
of
them
at
present
,
than
what
is
needful
to
let
your self
and
every
body
else
judge
that
I
have
means
in
my
hand
to
be
revenged
for
the
Injury
he
hath
done
me
.
They
will
be
without
doubt
more
just
Invectives
,
than
those
that
he
fills
his
Book
withal
.
He
set
upon
me
first
.
He
writes
out
of
a
Spirit
of
Revenge
,
with
a
great
deal
of
Heat
and
Passion
,
and
like
a
Man
that
believ'd
himself
touch'd
and
wrong'd
to
the
purpose
.
As
for
my
part
,
my
Lord
,
I
protest
I
write
to
you
in
cold
Blood
,
I
do
so
much
scorn
the
Injury
that
Sir
W.
affects
to
do
me
,
that
I
should
but
laugh
at
it
,
if
my
silence
was
not
able
to
persuade
you
,
and
those
persons
whose
esteem
of
me
doth
do
me
so
much
honour
,
that
I
have
but
small
care
of
my
reputation
.
Sir
W.
hath
shined
a
long
time
,
't
is
true
;
but
yet
he
hath
borrowed
all
his
Splendour
first
of
all
from
the
protection
of
a
Lord
,
whom
he
betray'd
at
last
,
of
whom
he
speaks
too
insolently
in
his
Memoirs
,
and
with
abundance
of
Ingratitude
;
and
then
again
he
advanced
himself
by
the
protection
of
certain
other
persons
to
whom
he
was
devoted
,
to
the
prejudice
of
his
bounden
Duty
:
He
did
so
well
insinuate
himself
(
that
I
may
make
use
of
the
Terms
he
makes
use
of
in
speaking
of
me
)
into
the
Favours
and
into
the
Confidence
of
those
,
near
to
whom
it
was
necessary
for
him
to
have
access
,
that
he
might
have
been
in
a
capacity
to
render
considerable
Services
to
the
King
his
Master
,
and
to
his
Country
,
if
so
be
he
had
made
better
use
of
this
advantage
;
but
he
kept
it
just
after
the
same
manner
as
he
had
got
it
;
that
is
to
say
,
that
he
often
came
short
of
exact
Faithfulness
and
Loyalty
,
which
a
Minister
of
S
tate
is
obliged
to
maintain
inviolably
even
in
the
least
Matters
,
that
doth
plainly
appear
in
his
Memoirs
.
The
late
King
of
England
perceived
it
,
and
was
so
far
convinced
of
it
,
that
he
never
made
use
of
him
in
the
last
Commissions
he
committed
to
his
charge
,
to
the
States-General
;
but
only
out
of
Consideration
of
the
Acquaintance
he
had
there
,
who
made
people
conjecture
that
Sir
W.
might
have
some
Credit
amongst
the
Spaniards
,
as
well
as
in
Holland
,
as
he
himself
assures
us
he
had
.
Neither
was
he
employed
,
but
only
upon
some
Occasions
,
wherein
one
would
not
employ
a
Man
who
was
a
Favourite
of
the
Prince
,
or
for
whom
he
had
any
value
,
or
in
whom
he
might
confide
;
't
is
a
Truth
owned
and
confess'd
by
Sir
W.
himself
in
his
Memoirs
;
and
a
Man
may
judge
of
it
by
the
so
opposite
false
steps
,
that
he
complains
,
they
caused
him
to
make
,
and
by
all
the
things
that
were
done
contrary
to
the
Measures
that
he
had
taken
,
just
as
if
the
Court
had
had
a
mind
to
expose
him
.
Besides
,
the
King
slighted
him
after
the
Peace
at
Nimeguen
,
and
laid
him
aside
,
making
very
little
use
of
him
;
it
was
not
,
what
he
would
make
us
believe
,
his
love
for
his
own
ease
,
and
his
Indispositions
of
body
,
that
made
him
decline
his
Employments
.
Never
did
Man
desire
more
to
have
an
hand
in
Affairs
;
he
was
removed
by
reason
of
the
King
's
secret
dissatisfaction
at
his
Services
,
by
that
Conduct
and
Management
,
which
in
executing
the
King's
Orders
,
when
they
were
contrary
to
his
Opinion
,
and
disliking
to
his
Friends
,
smelt
very
much
like
perfidiousness
and
Treachery
,
as
may
principally
appear
in
whatsoever
he
did
for
to
evade
and
frustrate
the
King's
Orders
,
contained
in
the
dispatch
I
left
with
him
at
the
Hague
,
to
Nimeguen
,
for
the
conclusion
of
the
Peace
,
by
Order
of
his
Majesty
.
It
is
concerning
this
business
that
has
made
so
great
a
noise
for
which
Sir
W.
takes
occasion
to
reproach
me
,
that
I
am
going
to
relate
you
some
Particulars
in
the
Reflections
,
that
I
am
obliged
to
make
upon
what
he
says
concerning
my self
.
Do
not
expect
,
my
Lord
,
that
I
should
teach
you
here
the
true
Cause
of
so
extraordinary
a
Resolution
which
so
much
surprized
Sir
W.
with
which
Pensioner
Fagel
was
so
much
astonished
,
and
which
in
Sirs
W's
opinion
did
entirely
change
the
Fate
of
Christendom
.
I
should
please
him
very
much
,
if
I
should
discover
so
important
a
Secret
,
in
which
many
persons
in
the
late
and
present
Reigns
have
been
concerned
.
I
do
not
doubt
but
Sir
W.
extremely
desires
it
;
he
knows
very
well
the
greater
knowledge
of
these
Practices
would
perhaps
raise
a
great
deal
of
trouble
in
the
Parliament
to
some
people
,
whose
Ruine
he
desires
at
the
bottom
of
his
Heart
,
being
little
concerned
for
the
reputation
of
the
late
King
,
and
envious
of
the
esteem
of
those
that
protected
him
,
and
who
have
bestowed
so
many
favours
upou
him
.
As
for
my self
at
this
Conjuncture
,
in
which
K.
William
endeavours
the
repose
of
Christendom
,
and
the
Happiness
of
England
with
so
much
Zeal
and
Glory
,
I
will
not
stir
up
the
envy
and
hatred
which
has
too
much
appeared
in
England
;
and
,
which
may
perhaps
be
a
great
Obstacle
to
that
Union
which
is
so
necessary
to
the
happy
Execution
of
the
Undertakings
of
this
great
Monarch
.
There
arrived
,
said
Sir
W.
at
that
time
from
England
,
one
whose
name
was
de
Cros.
I
shall
not
stop
,
my
Lord
,
upon
this
Term
of
Contempt
,
One
called
;
it
is
a
very
malicious
Expression
,
in
respect
of
my self
;
the
late
King
of
England
himself
did
me
the
Honour
to
treat
me
in
Passports
,
in
his
Letters
,
in
his
Commissions
which
he
charged
me
with
:
It
is
very
impudent
and
rude
to
speak
so
of
a
Man
,
who
is
of
a
good
Family
,
who
has
had
the
honour
of
being
employed
for
almost
twenty
years
,
and
whom
a
great
Prince
and
a
King
have
not
disdain'd
to
use
as
Councellor
of
State.
He
was
(
continues
Sir
W.
)
a
French
Monk
who
had
lately
quitted
his
Frock
for
a
Petticoat
.
Here
is
a
reproach
which
ill
becomes
an
Ambassador
of
a
Monarch
,
who
is
Defender
of
the
Faith
,
and
of
the
Protestant
Religion
;
of
one
who
declared
so
openly
at
Nimeguen
,
that
he
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
the
Pope's
Nuncio
.
I
do
not
know
,
my
Lord
,
that
it
is
a
disgrace
to
be
a
Monk
;
and
much
less
,
to
have
been
one
formerly
:
There
are
indeed
amongst
them
,
as
well
asamongst
the
rest
of
Mankind
,
some
miserable
Wretches
,
of
a
mean
Birth
,
and
of
a
disorderly
and
infamous
Life
;
People
of
no
use
,
without
Honour
,
and
without
Reputation
:
Sir
W.
T.
thought
,
without
doubt
,
that
I
was
of
that
Number
;
but
there
are
likewise
several
very
famous
for
the
Sanctity
of
their
Lives
,
of
an
extraordinary
Merit
,
and
of
the
greatest
Quality
,
Sons
of
Princes
and
Kings
,
and
Kings
themselves
,
and
Popes
:
But
if
this
sort
of
Life
is
not
now
,
as
formerly
it
was
,
so
certain
a
Character
of
a
good
and
honest
Man
,
do's
Sir
W.
think
he
can
dishonour
me
,
in
reproaching
me
for
leaving
a
Profession
which
himself
thinks
so
contemptible
,
for
a
Petticoat
?
It
will
not
be
material
in
this
place
to
say
how
I
was
engaged
therein
in
my
tender
years
.
There
is
nothing
more
usual
in
France
,
Spain
and
Italy
,
where
ancient
Houses
do
sacrifice
a
good
part
of
their
Families
in
Monasteries
;
't
is
a
Maxim
,
to
say
the
truth
,
most
cruel
and
horrid
.
Neither
will
I
relate
how
,
and
after
what
manner
I
came
out
of
it
;
however
,
it
was
not
for
a
Petticoat
.
I
have
remained
several
years
without
so
much
as
having
any
inclination
to
it
;
and
it
hath
been
apparent
that
I
have
had
much
a-do
,
and
was
very
much
unresolved
as
to
this
Choice
.
There
was
too
great
advantage
to
throw
off
my
Frock
for
the
Petticoat
that
I
have
taken
,
not
to
do
it
.
It
is
a
Petticoat
of
a
Scotch
Stuff
,
and
which
hath
been
a
greater
Ornament
,
and
done
the
Crown
of
England
more
good
than
Sir
W.
himself
;
if
he
do
not
know
it
,
the
History
of
England
and
Scotland
in
these
late
Times
may
inform
him
.
I
shall
enlarge
no
further
,
that
I
may
not
engage
my self
to
publish
the
Misfortunes
and
Disorders
of
Sir
W's
Family
;
which
,
I
suppose
would
not
be
like
a
Gentleman
.
I
have
no
reason
that
I
know
of
,
to
complain
,
neither
of
his
Lady
,
nor
his
Son
,
nor
of
his
Daughters
.
Besides
,
had
I
even
cast
off
the
Monk's
Habit
for
a
Petticoat
,
I
should
have
done
no
more
than
a
great
many
worthy
deferving
Persons
have
done
;
yea
,
some
of
the
Pope's
Nuncio's
,
Cardinals
,
Bishops
,
Kings
and
Princesses
too
,
who
have
quitted
the
Veil
for
the
Breeches
,
whose
Posterity
,
I
make
no
question
is
highly
esteemed
and
reverenced
by
Sir
W.
I
did
so
well
insinuate
my self
,
saith
Sir
W.
into
the
Court
of
Sweden
,
that
I
obtained
.
from
thence
a
Commission
to
be
a
kind
of
an
Agent
in
England
.
That
is
very
dirty
.
I
have
had
the
management
of
Affairs
and
the
Quality
of
Envoy
,
when
Sir
W.
had
no
more
than
that
of
an
Agent
or
Resident
at
Brussels
.
I
was
Envoy
at
the
Court
of
England
before
ever
I
was
in
Sweden
,
or
before
ever
I
had
any
acquaintance
there
.
I
went
the
first
time
to
Sweden
just
at
that
time
the
late
King
of
England
sent
me
into
Sweden
and
Denmark
,
about
the
beginning
of
the
Year
1676.
The
Pretence
was
for
to
demand
the
free
passage
of
Letters
;
which
the
King
of
Denmark
refused
,
for
hastening
the
Congress
of
Nimeguen
,
in
procuring
the
expedition
of
Passports
,
requisite
to
the
Ministers
of
State
who
were
to
compose
the
Assembly
;
and
also
to
urge
the
Departure
of
the
Embassadors
belonging
to
those
two
Northern
Crowns
.
But
now
the
true
Cause
was
quite
another
Matter
,
and
of
greater
consequence
;
not
for
the
King
of
England
,
but
indeed
for
another
Potentate
.
—
That
shall
be
made
appear
some
time
or
other
in
my
Memoirs
.
Had
I
been
a
kind
of
a
Swedish
Agent
,
I
should
not
have
defended
my self
in
that
Point
;
I
should
have
held
it
as
a
great
piece
of
Honour
,
since
it
could
not
chuse
but
be
very
glorious
and
splendid
,
to
have
the
Affairs
of
so
great
a
King
,
in
such
important
Conjunctures
as
those
were
,
committed
to
ones
charge
and
care
;
but
at
the
very
time
Sir
W.
speaks
of
,
I
was
dignified
with
the
Quality
of
Envoy
Extraordinary
from
the
Duke
of
Holstein
Gottorv
,
acknowledged
and
received
at
the
Court
of
England
for
such
.
Sir
W.
knows
that
very
well
,
there
was
sent
him
divers
Memoirs
to
Nimeguen
whilst
the
Mediation
lasted
,
which
I
had
delivered
in
at
London
,
concerning
the
re-setling
my
Master
;
but
the
Interest
and
Concerns
of
this
Prince
were
so
indifferent
to
him
,
that
I
was
fain
to
beg
of
my
Lord
Treasurer
to
recommend
them
more
particularly
to
Sir
Leoline
Jenkyns
.
Moreover
,
you
may
see
Sir
W.
T.
mentions
in
his
Memoirs
all
the
Potentates
that
had
any
interest
in
the
Peace
of
Nimeguen
,
except
the
Duke
of
Holstein
Gottorp
,
notwithstanding
he
had
two
Ministers
at
the
Congress
,
and
although
France
had
stipulated
for
his
re-establishment
in
the
second
Article
or
Condition
of
the
Peace
,
such
who
shall
peruse
the
Memoirs
of
Sir
W.
might
be
apt
to
think
that
the
Duke
of
Holstein
was
reckoned
as
no
body
in
the
World
,
and
that
he
had
no
part
at
all
in
what
pass'd
in
Christendoom
,
from
the
commencing
of
the
War
in
1672
,
until
the
conclusion
of
the
Peace
1679
▪
But
Thanks
be
to
God
Sir
W.
is
not
the
Steward
of
Glory
and
Immortality
.
Sir
W.
therefore
must
have
often
read
my
Name
and
Character
in
the
Letters
,
and
Orders
of
the
Court
,
and
cannot
have
forgot
that
he
came
to
render
me
a
Visit
at
my
Lodgings
,
at
such
time
as
he
,
by
the
King's
Order
,
was
to
confer
with
me
upon
what
account
Monsieur
Olivencrantz
might
be
obliged
to
pass
from
Nimeguen
into
England
:
That
Swedish
Embassador
lodg'd
at
that
time
in
my
house
.
'T
is
true
indeed
,
as
the
Interests
of
my
Master
were
inseparable
from
those
of
Sweden
,
I
found
my self
engaged
to
be
very
much
concerned
in
the
Interests
of
that
Crown
in
whatsoever
might
depend
on
my
care
:
There
was
an
Envoy
extraordinary
from
Sweden
at
London
;
and
yet
for
all
that
,
the
Swedish
Ambassadors
did
me
the
Honour
to
maintain
a
very
regular
Correspondence
by
Letters
with
me
:
The
King
of
England
was
also
graciously
pleased
to
hear
me
in
what
concerned
the
Affairs
of
the
Swede
,
although
I
was
no
otherwise
authorized
for
it
.
Monsieur
Olivencrantz
,
his
Voyage
to
London
was
contrived
first
of
all
by
the
King
and
my self
,
without
the
least
medling
or
intervention
of
any
one
of
his
Ministers
;
and
then
again
in
the
Negotiation
,
whereof
my
Voyage
to
Nimeguen
was
a
Consequence
,
the
Restitution
of
Sweden
was
especially
insisted
upon
.
All
this
made
many
Men
believe
,
that
I
was
intrusted
with
the
Management
of
the
Affairs
of
this
Crown
;
and
Monsieur
Van
Beuninguen
believed
it
so
to
be
,
in
the
Letter
he
writ
to
the
Lords
States-General
,
which
hath
since
been
printed
;
where
he
speaks
with
so
much
uncertainty
concerning
the
Voyage
I
was
about
to
make
to
Nimeguen
,
and
about
this
Negotiation
,
that
it
was
evident
it
was
a
very
great
Secret.
Since
his
being
at
London
,
saith
Sir
W.
speaking
of
me
,
he
hath
wholly
devoted
himself
to
Monsieur
Barillon
,
the
French
Ambassador
,
under
pretence
to
act
for
the
Interests
of
Sweden
.
Monsieur
Barillon
was
not
at
that
time
in
London
,
when
I
was
sent
thither
,
he
came
not
thither
till
a
long
time
after
;
I
found
Monsieur
le
Marquis
de
Ruvigni
there
,
whom
Monsieur
Courtin
succeeded
;
and
after
that
Monsieur
Barillon
came
to
take
the
place
of
Monsieur
Courtin
.
I
never
devoted
my self
to
this
Ambassador
,
and
I
never
had
any
Correspondence
or
was
in
League
with
him
prejudicial
to
my
Duty
.
Nay
,
it
happened
the
King
of
England
one
day
,
having
a
design
more
especially
to
take
into
Consideration
the
Swedish
Interests
,
Monsieur
de
Barillon
diverted
him
from
it
;
whether
for
fear
lest
a
particular
Peace
should
be
clapp'd
up
between
the
Northern
Crowns
,
or
else
out
of
Jealousie
,
that
he
might
leave
the
Glory
of
the
Restitution
of
this
Crown
to
the
King
his
Master
;
and
depriving
it
of
all
other
relief
,
might
keep
it
in
the
mean
time
in
a
greater
dependance
.
I
was
so
much
put
to
it
,
and
fell
out
with
Mr.
Ba●illon
so
much
thereupon
,
that
I
did
not
so
much
as
●peak
to
him
in
3
or
4
months
;
nay
,
one
day
as
the
King
was
at
Dinner
I
cast
in
his
teeth
what
had
past
●n
the
presence
of
Monsieur
Wachmeister
,
Envoy-Ex●raordinary
from
the
King
of
Sweden
.
I
do
not
question
but
Monsieur
Wachmeister
remembers
it
well
enough
;
he
is
no
less
worthy
to
be
believed
,
than
he
●s
brave
and
undaunted
.
And
now
after
this
manner
I
became
all
one
with
●he
Ambassador
of
France
.
But
yet
I
must
confess
●hat
at
such
time
as
he
stickled
for
my
Master's
In●erest
and
that
of
the
Swede
,
I
was
intirely
devoted
●o
him
,
thinking
my self
most
happy
that
I
was
●nabled
to
pay
my
most
humble
Services
to
such
a
●reat
Monarch
,
whose
Subject
I
have
the
honour
to
●e
,
without
failing
in
my
Loyalty
and
Allegiance
,
●hichlought
to
pay
him
before
all
others
whatsoever
Whereupon
,
my
Lord
,
I
shall
tell
you
one
thing
,
in
●hich
Monsieur
de
Revigni
,
at
present
Lord
Gallo●ay
,
cannot
but
agree
with
me
,
no
,
nor
Monsieur
●livencrantz
neither
.
The
departure
of
this
Am●assador
for
England
,
occasioned
shrewd
suspicions
both
at
Nimeguen
and
London
to
the
French
Ambassadors
.
Monsieur
Barillon
was
much
alarm'd
at
it
,
especially
when
he
saw
that
Monsieur
Olivencrantz
lodged
at
my
House
,
and
when
he
knew
that
I
had
offered
a
Project
,
upon
which
I
had
the
Honour
sometimes
to
be
in
debate
with
my
Lord
Treasurer
,
Monsieur
Barillon
put
all
in
practice
to
sift
him
to
the
bottom
;
nevertheless
all
the
offers
of
this
French
Embassador
proved
ineffectual
,
and
wrought
thing
upon
this
Man
;
who
,
if
a
man
would
give
credit
to
Sir
W.
T.
was
intirely
devoted
to
Mons
.
Barillon
,
and
yet
Mons
.
Barillon
found
him
not
to
be
corrupted
or
bribed
.
One
would
think
,
my
Lord
,
that
Sir
W
▪
T.
has
a
mind
to
make
Men
believe
,
that
I
was
only
sent
into
Holland
to
carry
him
a
Dispatch
from
the
Court
;
for
he
is
always
harping
upon
this
String
,
when
he
mentions
my
Voyage
:
Yet
please
to
take
notice
,
my
Lord
,
That
he
confesseth
that
it
was
I
,
who
procured
this
Dispatch
.
What
means
the
King
then
,
when
he
says
,
That
I
had
been
too
cunning
for
them
all
?
There
is
not
so
much
Prudence
and
great
Abilities
required
in
a
Courier
;
it
is
sufficient
that
he
be
expeditious
.
But
this
Message
must
needs
have
been
Honourable
,
to
employ
an
Envoy
extraordinary
of
one
of
the
greatest
Princes
of
the
Empire
,
except
it
be
what
Sir
W.
hath
been
pleased
to
say
,
That
I
was
so
much
devoted
to
the
King
;
yea
,
and
to
Monsieur
Barillon
too
,
and
so
little
tender
of
my
Master's
Dignity
,
that
I
would
comply
with
any
Offices
.
If
I
were
a
Courier
or
Messenger
,
Monsieur
T.
hath
at
least
done
me
a
good
Office
,
in
representing
me
to
be
,
what
I
would
not
have
the
Confidence
to
believe
my self
;
namely
,
that
I
was
an
able
Messenger
,
a
Courier
of
the
Cabinet
,
and
very
deep
in
the
King's
Trust
and
Confidence
.
For
before
ever
Monsieur
T.
spoke
of
this
Dispatch
,
which
as
he
says
,
the
Court
sent
him
,
to
be
kept
as
a
mighty
Secret
,
Pensioner
Fagel
,
says
he
,
knew
all
the
Contents
,
and
was
quite
stun'd
at
it
.
D●
Cross
had
industriously
informed
the
Deputies
of
the
Town
,
(
I
Copy
from
Monsieur
T.
)
and
had
told
them
that
the
two
Kings
were
intirely
agreed
an
the
Conditions
of
Peace
;
that
he
had
carried
Orders
to
Monsieur
T.
to
go
to
Nimeguen
,
and
that
at
his
Arrival
there
he
would
find
the
Letters
of
my
Lord
Sunderland
,
the
English
Ambassador
,
at
Paris
,
with
all
the
Articles
as
they
are
concluded
between
the
two
Crowns
.
Here
is
,
I
acknowledge
,
a
very
expert
Messenger
,
very
knowing
in
the
Secret
,
and
very
forward
in
the
work
,
in
4
or
5
hours
time
,
that
I
had
been
at
the
Hague
.
Monsieur
T.
will
be
much
more
stun'd
than
Monsieur
Fagel
was
,
when
he
shall
know
hereafter
what
past
at
the
Hague
,
in
that
little
time
that
I
was
there
,
not
having
discovered
what
it
really
was
,
neither
then
,
nor
since
.
It
was
most
certainly
,
something
of
greater
importance
than
to
tell
the
Deputies
of
the
Towns
the
Contents
of
the
Dispatch
,
with
which
I
was
intrusted
.
And
Monsieur
T.
will
see
cleerly
one
day
,
how
far
this
only
incident
did
change
the
Fate
of
Christendome
.
I
pretend
not
,
adds
Monsieur
T.
to
determine
by
whose
means
,
and
how
du
Cross
,
obtained
this
Dispatch
.
And
a
little
lower
▪
All
that
I
could
learn
at
Court
,
about
this
matter
,
was
,
that
his
Orders
were
made
up
one
morning
,
in
an
hours
time
,
at
the
Dutchess
of
Portsmouths
apartment
,
by
the
interven●i
n
of
Monsieur
Barillon
.
It
's
pity
,
that
an
English
Ambassadour
,
that
all
the
King
his
Master's
Council
(
if
one
can
believe
it
)
that
a
Man
,
who
if
he
had
pleased
himself
,
might
have
been
several
times
Secretary
of
State
,
should
be
so
little
informed
,
I
will
not
say
during
his
absence
,
while
he
remained
at
the
Hague
,
and
at
Nimeguin
,
but
even
since
his
return
into
England
,
of
what
past
there
,
and
chiefly
in
that
very
affair
,
wherein
Monsieur
T.
was
more
exercised
than
in
any
other
Business
that
he
ever
undertook
.
But
how
he
could
be
know
it
,
since
neither
the
Duke
of
York
.
nor
my
Lord
Treasurer
,
not
hardly
the
King
himself
(
if
we
may
believe
Monsieur
T.
)
knew
any
thing
of
it
;
And
that
these
Orders
were
made
in
one
morning
,
in
an
hours
time
,
at
the
Dutchess
of
Portsmouths
Apartment
,
by
the
Interception
of
Monsieur
Barillon
.
Observe
now
,
if
you
please
,
my
Lord
,
the
Malice
of
Monsieur
T.
in
Relation
to
Monsieur
Williamson
▪
on
whom
he
would
give
in
this
place
,
the
Character
of
Perfidy
,
as
he
hath
done
in
diverse
other
parts
of
his
Memoirs
.
Monsieur
T.
ought
to
have
had
at
least
,
some
respect
for
the
King
,
whose
Orders
Monsieur
Williamson
did
Execute
.
I
never
talkt
of
it
▪
says
Monsieur
T.
to
the
Secretary
of
State
Williamson
,
as
if
he
would
say
that
he
was
sufficiently
perswaded
that
Monsieur
Williamson
was
a
Man
altogether
for
France
,
and
that
he
was
intirely
devoted
▪
as
well
as
my self
,
to
Monsieur
Barillon
,
and
that
he
was
the
Author
of
this
Dispatch
.
Is
it
not
clear
that
Monsieur
T.
would
make
us
imagine
that
Monsieur
the
Chevalier
Williamson
,
Secretary
of
State
,
the
French
Ambassador
,
and
the
Dutchess
of
Portsmouth
promised
these
Orders
.
As
for
me
,
tho'
I
had
the
Dispatch
given
me
,
yet
he
does
not
accuse
me
openly
in
this
place
of
bearing
any
other
part
in
this
Affair
,
than
only
as
a
Messenger
entrusted
with
the
Conveyance
.
And
not
only
so
,
but
I
never
went
to
the
Dutchess
of
Portsmouths
Lodgings
,
she
having
an
irreconcilable
aversion
for
me
,
and
I
for
her
.
Can
there
be
a
greater
absurdity
than
this
?
To
endeavour
to
perswade
his
Readers
that
the
most
important
affair
of
that
time
on
which
depended
(
says
Monsieur
T.
)
The
Fate
of
Christendom
was
concluded
and
made
up
,
in
one
hours
time
,
in
the
apartment
of
the
Dutchess
of
Portsmouth
,
by
the
Intervention
of
Monsieur
Barillon
.
Monsieur
T.
is
accustomed
so
little
to
spare
the
King's
Reputation
,
that
he
fears
not
on
this
occasion
,
to
prostitute
it
,
in
a
strange
manner
.
He
does
not
only
charge
him
with
partiality
and
connivance
,
in
suffering
Valentiennes
,
Cambray
,
St.
Omer
,
and
several
other
places
in
Flanders
▪
to
be
taken
,
without
Murmur
or
Opposition
;
But
the
King
of
England
obliged
as
much
as
could
be
,
in
the
Quality
of
a
Mediator
,
and
more
through
the
Interest
of
his
Kingdoms
to
procure
the
Repose
of
Christendom
,
yet
corrupted
by
the
French
Ambassadours
,
and
by
the
Charms
of
a
Mistress
,
Sacrifices
all
Europe
,
and
his
own
Estate
,
to
a
Power
that
is
naturally
an
Enemy
to
England
.
And
this
without
Ceremony
,
in
an
hours
time
,
without
the
advice
of
his
Council
,
and
hides
himself
in
the
Apartment
of
a
Woman
,
as
if
he
was
sensible
that
he
went
about
an
action
the
most
unworthy
of
the
Majesty
of
a
Prince
,
and
the
most
opposite
to
the
Felicity
of
his
People
that
could
be
.
For
what
other
Construction
can
any
one
make
of
what
Monsieur
T.
says
,
and
can
any
man
conclude
,
otherwise
when
he
reads
this
worthy
passage
in
his
Memoirs
?
Certain
it
is
,
that
this
Dispatch
was
made
up
by
Monsieur
Williamson
,
and
by
the
Kings
Order
.
And
since
the
King
was
pleased
to
avoid
opening
his
mind
hereon
to
Monsi●ur
T.
giving
him
no
other
answer
,
but
that
I
had
been
more
cunning
than
all
of
'em
;
Monsieur
T.
might
possibly
Address
himself
to
Monsieur
Williamson
,
who
,
it
may
be
,
might
tell
him
,
by
whose
means
,
and
how
Du
Cross
had
obtained
this
Dispatch
.
'T
is
plain
that
Monsieur
T.
despairs
of
penetrating
into
this
Affair
;
that
he
knows
not
where
about
he
is
when
he
speaks
of
it
;
and
that
he
only
seeks
to
blacken
the
Reputation
of
the
King
and
his
Ministers
.
If
the
Peace
of
Aix
la
chapelle
is
his
Favourite
,
because
he
hath
the
Vanity
to
believe
it
to
be
intirely
his
own
work
;
't
is
easie
seen
that
the
Peace
of
Nimiguen
is
his
Aversion
,
because
he
is
ashamed
to
have
had
so
small
a
Part
in
it
as
he
had
,
and
that
the
most
glorious
part
of
his
Life
is
not
to
be
sound
in
that
Negotiation
.
I
would
have
this
Complaisance
for
Monsieur
T.
though
he
treats
me
so
ill
;
I
would
,
at
least
,
in
some
part
,
draw
him
out
of
this
great
incertainty
,
on
the
subject
of
the
Dispatch
which
I
brought
him
.
He
is
deceived
,
when
he
imputes
this
Resolution
to
the
Intrigues
and
Perswasions
of
France
.
It
was
neither
managed
,
nor
taken
,
nor
dispatcht
,
at
the
Dutchess
of
Portsmouth's
;
nor
was
it
by
the
means
or
intervention
of
Monsieur
Barillon
.
The
Ambassadour
had
no
part
in
it
,
but
on
the
very
Instant
when
the
affair
was
concluding
.
He
was
not
so
much
as
present
at
the
Expedition
,
as
he
had
not
been
at
any
time
at
the
Deliberations
.
The
Marquiss
of
Ruvigny
,
the
Son
,
carryed
the
first
News
to
the
King
,
his
Master
,
the
same
day
that
I
parted
for
Nimeguen
.
Monsieur
Williamson
knew
well
what
was
contained
in
the
Dispatch
to
Monsieur
T.
in
which
there
was
nothing
very
mysterious
.
But
he
was
never
privy
to
the
secret
of
the
Negotiation
▪
and
tho'
he
was
present
when
I
took
my
leave
of
the
King
in
Secretary
Coventry's
Office
,
yet
he
was
then
ignorant
of
the
true
subject
of
my
Voyage
,
and
perhaps
he
never
knew
it
.
The
King
was
not
at
all
precipitate
,
and
the
affair
was
not
concluded
and
dispatcht
in
an
hours
time
.
It
was
treated
on
,
and
deliberately
considered
near
Three
weeks
.
There
was
time
given
to
the
Ambassadours
of
Swedeland
to
resolve
themselves
,
and
make
their
Answer
.
The
King's
design
was
doubtless
aimed
for
the
good
of
Europe
,
and
the
publick
tranquility
▪
but
in
truth
,
he
had
not
in
his
Eye
,
nor
did
he
certainly
believe
that
happy
Fate
of
Christendome
,
for
which
Monsieur
T.
labours
so
earnestly
in
consort
with
some
particular
Persons
,
Enemies
to
the
State
,
Seditious
,
and
Disturbers
of
the
Publick
Repose
.
But
the
King
said
pleasantly
,
adds
Monsieur
T.
that
the
Rogue
(
Coquin
)
du
Cross
had
outwitted
them
all
.
If
Monsieur
T.
had
not
made
the
King
say
this
,
and
had
said
it
himself
,
I
might
have
applied
to
him
,
with
as
much
Justice
as
any
man
in
the
World
,
these
Verses
which
I
have
read
somewhere
,
Coquin
,
he
calls
me
,
with
mighty
disdain
.
Doubtless
,
I
should
answer
Monsieur
T.
thus
,
Seek
your
Coquins
elsewhere
,
you
're
one
your self
.
But
the
Person
of
Kings
is
sacred
.
Besides
,
Can
that
be
an
abuse
,
which
is
spoken
pleasantly
,
without
the
least
design
perhaps
of
offending
.
For
Coquin
is
a
word
which
the
Late
King
of
England
often
used
,
when
he
spoke
of
People
for
whom
he
had
notwithstanding
Respect
and
Consideration
.
'T
is
true
,
he
used
the
word
also
very
familiarly
,
when
he
was
angry
,
but
at
such
times
he
spoke
with
indignation
,
and
not
pleasantly
.
The
Parliament
presented
an
Address
to
the
King
(
as
Monsieur
T.
reports
)
in
which
they
represented
the
Progress
of
the
French
Arms
,
and
desired
him
to
stop
it
before
it
became
more
dangerous
to
England
,
and
the
other
Neighbouring
Countries
.
Den
Bernard
de
Salinas
(
continues
Monsieur
T.
)
said
to
certain
Members
of
the
Commons
,
that
this
Address
had
so
exasperated
the
King
,
that
he
said
those
who
were
the
Authors
of
it
were
a
Company
of
Coquins
.
I
remembred
at
my
Arrival
in
England
,
in
1675.
before
I
was
to
go
into
France
in
Quality
of
an
Envoy
,
whither
I
acknowledge
his
most
Christian
Majesty
would
not
permit
me
to
come
,
either
because
they
had
informed
him
that
I
had
embraced
the
Protestant
Religion
,
or
it
may
be
because
the
King
of
France
would
not
receive
his
own
Subjects
,
in
the
Quality
of
Ministers
of
other
Princes
.
It
happened
,
I
say
,
that
the
King
of
England
(
to
whom
also
I
had
a
Commission
)
bid
the
Marquiss
of
Ruvigni
,
one
Evening
,
bring
me
to
his
Cabinet
,
and
himself
come
in
with
me
.
The
King
enquired
of
me
,
at
the
first
,
what
news
I
could
tell
him
of
the
Condition
of
the
Swedes
Army
in
Pomerania
,
through
which
I
past
,
and
exprest
much
concern
that
the
Constable
Wrangle
,
not
minding
to
pass
forward
into
the
Empire
(
as
Monsieur
T.
says
)
had
thereby
different
pretences
,
had
attacked
the
Elector
of
Branderburg
as
vigorously
and
with
as
much
success
as
he
could
.
I
told
the
King
the
reason
,
which
concerns
not
my
present
subject
to
report
here
.
Afterwards
,
I
having
informed
the
King
of
the
State
of
Germany
,
the
King
believing
that
I
was
to
pass
into
France
,
spoke
to
me
in
these
very
words
.
Monsieur
,
tell
the
King
,
my
Brother
,
that
it
is
much
against
my
mind
that
I
have
made
Peace
with
these
Coquins
,
the
Hollanders
,
Monsieur
the
Marquiss
of
Ruvigny
,
who
stands
here
,
knows
it
well
.
Sometime
before
the
making
of
this
Peace
,
the
King
talking
with
Monsieur
de
Shrenborn
Envoy
from
Mayence
,
told
him
also
,
in
Relation
to
the
Hollanders
,
In
a
little
time
,
Monsieur
,
I
will
bring
these
Coquins
to
Reason
.
Monsieur
de
Barillon
writ
to
the
Count
d'
Auaux
,
the
French
Ambassadour
at
the
Hague
,
certain
Discourses
which
the
King
had
concerning
the
Hollanders
.
The
Count
d'
Auaux
made
use
of
this
to
encrease
the
just
Suspicions
of
the
Esttates
.
He
carried
the
Letters
of
Monsieur
Barillon
,
to
Monsieur
Fagel
.
Whereupon
,
the
States
made
a
terrible
Complaint
,
and
the
King
of
England
said
on
this
Occasion
to
the
Duke
of
Lauderdale
,
that
Monsieur
Barillon
,
and
the
Count
d'
Avaux
were
Coquins
.
Had
the
King
called
me
Coquin
,
seriously
,
I
ought
not
to
think
it
any
very
strange
thing
;
since
he
hath
treated
in
the
same
manner
the
most
powerful
and
wisest
Republick
of
the
World
,
to
whom
he
had
so
great
Obligations
;
two
Ambassadours
of
his
most
Christian
Majesty
,
of
extraordinary
merit
,
and
as
honest
Men
as
France
ever
had
;
and
also
the
greatest
Lords
of
his
own
Kingdom
who
were
Authors
of
the
Address
which
the
Commons
presented
him
.
There
is
also
this
difference
,
that
the
King
,
speaking
of
those
Lords
,
those
Ambassadours
,
and
the
Hollanders
,
he
called
them
Coquins
in
anger
,
but
when
he
spoke
of
me
,
he
said
it
pleasantly
(
according
to
Monsieur
T.
)
and
that
I
was
a
cunning
Coquin
,
more
cunning
than
the
Duke
of
York
,
my
Lord
Treasurer
,
the
Secretary
of
State
Williamson
,
and
even
the
King
himself
.
Either
I
am
much
deceived
,
or
all
the
Ministers
of
the
Consederates
that
were
then
at
London
,
would
have
been
all
Coquins
at
this
rate
,
and
Monsieur
Temple
himself
,
and
would
have
deceived
those
who
abused
and
deceived
them
.
For
besides
,
there
is
more
credit
methinks
on
such
like
Occasions
,
to
be
a
cunning
Rogue
,
and
to
pass
for
a
more
able
Man
than
the
most
able
Ministers
of
State
,
than
to
be
the
laughing-stock
,
and
the
Fool
of
a
Monk
and
a
sort
of
Agent
;
Sir
William
Temple
,
and
some
others
,
were
truly
so
on
this
occasion
.
But
I
would
acquaint
Sir
W.
Temple
of
what
he
has
not
perhaps
heard
of
,
as
he
has
done
the
like
to
me
,
I
do
not
invent
it
to
revenge
my self
,
and
●f
I
would
make
use
of
falshoods
,
I
might
make
recourse
to
more
heinous
Affronts
;
the
truth
of
my
Remarks
upon
his
Memoirs
,
shall
be
my
full
satisfaction
.
What
I
shall
relate
may
be
found
in
my
Letters
upon
that
account
to
the
Prince
my
Master
,
and
his
Ministers
:
I
took
no
particular
care
to
divulge
it
immediately
to
Mounsieur
Barillon
,
to
whom
I
was
so
much
devoted
;
were
he
alive
he
might
witness
that
as
well
as
the
Aversion
the
King
of
England
always
bore
to
Sir
W.
Temple
;
and
the
little
Esteem
he
had
of
him
at
bottom
.
Upon
my
return
from
Nimeguen
to
London
,
I
went
immediately
to
Court
,
as
soon
as
I
came
there
I
meet
Prince
Rupert
,
who
askt
me
with
a
sterne
Countenance
if
the
Peace
was
Concluded
,
I
answered
him
in
the
Affirmative
,
upon
which
he
cryed
out
and
said
,
O
Dissimulation
.
After
having
had
the
Honour
to
give
his
Majesty
an
account
of
what
was
past
,
I
told
him
of
the
ill
humour
I
perceived
Sir
W.
T.
to
be
in
,
and
what
I
knew
of
his
neglect
of
his
Majesties
Orders
;
The
King
seemed
very
angry
with
Sir
W's
.
Proceedings
,
and
said
,
he
was
a
very
impertinent
R
—
to
find
fault
with
my
Commands
.
But
if
the
late
K.
of
England
,
did
not
approve
of
my
Conduct
in
the
affairs
of
Nimeguen
,
which
in
effect
he
declared
at
first
in
Publick
not
to
be
pleased
with
,
in
which
he
play'd
his
part
to
admiration
:
If
against
his
will
,
I
had
truly
inform'd
the
several
Deputies
at
the
Hague
,
how
that
the
two
Kings
of
England
and
France
were
intirely
agreed
upon
Conditions
of
Peace
;
〈◊〉
this
accident
changed
the
Destiny
of
Christendom
▪
and
what
endeavours
soever
the
English
Court
had
made
,
there
were
no
ways
to
repair
the
Breach
.
If
I
was
a
Fool
,
a
piece
of
an
Agent
,
o●
a
Knave
,
How
comes
it
that
the
King
suffer'd
me
to
stay
in
England
near
a
year
?
nay
,
as
long
as
my
Master
thought
fit
.
Why
was
the
King
so
civil
to
me
?
Why
did
he
recompence
me
for
my
Voyage
from
Nimeguen
?
Upon
what
account
did
the
King
bestow
several
other
Favours
upon
me
?
How
comes
it
,
that
I
haveing
made
a
great
Entertainment
and
Fireworks
,
to
shew
my
joy
for
the
Re-establishment
of
the
Duke
my
Master
to
his
Teritories
,
that
the
whole
Court
should
do
me
that
Honour
as
to
be
present
thereat
?
It
was
not
my
quality
of
Envoy
Extraordinary
of
the
Duke
de
Gottorp
,
that
hindred
the
King
to
express
some
kind
of
resentment
against
me
,
and
thereupon
to
bid
me
avoid
the
Kingdom
.
I
do
well
remember
the
King
was
just
npon
the
point
of
making
Mounsieur
Van
Beuningen
Ambassador
to
the
States
General
,
to
withdraw
and
get
him
out
of
the
Land
,
because
he
had
got
the
word
Connivance
,
to
be
foisted
into
a
Memorial
he
presented
to
the
King
,
for
the
recalling
of
the
English
Forces
,
which
bore
Armes
in
France
.
Don
Barnard
de
Salinas
was
the
Spanish
Envoy
;
the
King
made
much
of
him
,
yea
and
loved
him
for
the
particular
care
he
had
in
Flanders
of
the
education
of
the
E.
of
Plym
.
one
of
the
Ks.
Sons
,
He
did
nothing
but
report
up
and
down
,
that
the
King
gave
the
Authors
of
the
Address
,
presented
to
his
Majesty
,
by
the
House
of
Commons
no
better
name
than
Rogues
.
The
King
had
his
liberty
to
reject
this
Address
,
as
indeed
he
did
,
and
no
ways
apprehended
the
Consequences
of
it
at
that
time
;
yet
for
all
that
,
he
banished
Don
Bern.
de
Salinas
,
not
in
the
least
considering
his
Character
,
nor
the
Kindness
wherewith
he
had
always
honoured
this
Minister
;
Yea
and
be
Banished
him
too
,
without
any
respect
to
the
King
of
Spain
.
But
,
for
me
who
had
abused
and
deceived
the
D.
of
York
,
My
Lord
Treasurer
,
ay
,
and
the
K.
himself
,
who
had
overthrown
all
those
fair
and
vast
Projects
,
which
the
Confederates
had
contrived
at
London
and
Nimega●n●
▪
and
Sir
W.
T.
at
the
Hague
,
which
had
disclosed
the
Kings
dispatches
,
a
master
piece
of
S●●r●●ry
who
was
the
cause
of
quite
changing
the
〈◊〉
of
Christendom
:
for
me
,
I
say
,
against
whom
the
〈◊〉
Orange
had
written
,
and
caused
to
be
written
so
many
thundering
Letters
,
against
whom
all
the
Ministers
of
the
Confederates
called
for
Vengeance
;
against
whom
Sir
W.
T.
levelled
more
of
his
endeavours
to
destroy
me
than
the
Court
did
to
repair
this
Breach
,
and
patch
up
the
business
,
it
lets
me
alone
,
it
does
not
make
the
least
complaint
to
the
Duke
my
Master
;
the
K.
does
me
a
great
many
favours
,
and
laughs
in
his
Sleeve
at
the
Surprise
,
at
the
Sorrow
,
and
Complaints
of
the
Confederates
,
and
Sir
W.
T.
After
all
that
,
can
any
body
reasonably
believe
that
the
K.
of
England
might
have
lookt
upon
me
as
a
Rogue
:
And
when
he
told
Sir
W.
T.
after
a
droleing
manner
that
I
was
a
Rogue
and
had
o●
:
〈◊〉
th●●
all
,
may
it
not
be
probable
,
that
he
had
a
mind
to
jeer
him
,
and
to
make
him
sensible
that
he
was
taken
but
for
Fool
?
I●
was
very
like
so
to
he
.
I
have
not
gone
about
,
My
Lord
,
to
say
i●
this
place
what
I
might
say
,
to
wipe
of
all
those
scandalous
impressions
that
Sir
W.
T.
hath
such
a
desire
to
fasten
upon
me
;
I
suppose
I
have
given
your
Lordship
sufficiently
to
understand
,
that
what
he
hath
been
pleased
to
say
upon
this
Theme
of
me
,
proceeds
from
inveterate
Spite
and
Malice
.
But
,
what
way
is
there
to
get
clear
of
one
of
the
most
Haughty
,
and
most
Revengeful
of
men
,
who
in
his
Memoires
falls
foul
upon
the
reputation
even
of
the
greatest
Minister
,
who
casts
aspersions
on
the
Duke
of
Lauderdale
,
that
most
Zealous
,
and
most
Faithful
Minister
,
that
ever
the
King
was
Master
of
;
on
My
Lord
Arlington
whom
Sir
W.
is
bound
to
respect
as
his
Master
,
who
was
his
Benefactor
,
that
raised
him
from
his
sordid
obscurity
,
and
as
it
were
from
the
Dunghill
,
to
bring
him
into
play
,
This
ingreatful
person
forsooke
him
,
that
he
might
catch
at
the
shadow
and
appearance
of
mending
his
Fortune
;
he
would
not
have
stuck
to
ruin
My
Lord
Arlington
,
by
base
indirect
means
:
This
is
no
hard
matter
to
make
out
,
even
by
Sir
W.
T.
his
own
Memoirs
,
but
yet
I
am
acquainted
with
some
particulars
upon
this
Subject
that
make
my
hair
stand
an
end
,
nay
,
and
I
have
not
only
learnt
them
from
My
Lord
Arlingtons
own
mouth
,
but
also
from
a
noted
Minister
of
those
times
.
What
a
piece
of
impudence
to
call
in
question
and
tax
the
Principal
Ministers
,
and
the
soberest
Magistrates
of
Holland
,
viz.
Monsieur
de
●everning
,
Monsieur
Valknier
and
others
,
generally
esteemed
by
every
body
.
To
arraign
them
,
I
say
,
some
for
A
varice
,
others
for
Partiality
,
I
had
almost
said
for
betraying
their
Trust
.
But
above
all
,
to
give
such
disad
antagious
representations
of
the
E.
of
Rochester
,
and
of
Sir
Leoline
Jenkyns
;
that
,
it
would
have
been
all
one
if
he
had
said
,
that
Sir
Leoline
,
was
a
man
of
the
other
World
,
a
plain
downright
Ideot
,
void
of
insight
and
Experience
:
And
that
Law.
Hyde
,
now
E.
of
Rochester
,
was
a
Lord
altogether
unacquainted
with
,
and
no
ways
fit
for
the
imployment
the
King
gave
him
at
Nimeguen
;
neverthetheless
,
Sir
Leoline
was
made
Secretary
of
State
,
and
no
notice
at
all
taken
of
Sir
W.
As
for
Laurence
Hyde
,
Sir
W.
speaks
first
of
him
,
as
if
he
were
a
Youth
,
that
should
have
been
sent
to
the
University
,
I
plainly
perceive
,
saith
he
,
that
the
chief
design
of
that
Commission
was
to
introduce
Mr.
Hyde
into
this
sort
of
employment
,
and
to
let
him
understand
the
manner
how
the
men
behave
themselves
in
the
same
,
then
he
adds
,
He
excused
himself
out
of
modesty
,
to
have
any
thing
to
do
with
any
Conference
,
and
Compiling
Dispatches
.
Was
it
out
of
the
respect
he
owed
to
Sir
W.
T.
or
for
want
of
Capacity
,
that
My
Lord
shewed
so
much
modesty
,
that
he
would
neither
make
Dispatches
,
nor
meddle
with
Conferences
,
what
,
he
who
had
been
ingaged
already
,
as
he
was
afterwards
in
very
important
Affairs
;
who
had
been
Embassadour
in
the
principal
Courts
of
Europe
,
who
was
chosen
as
Chief
of
the
Embasie
at
Nimegnen
,
one
who
in
all
respects
,
is
so
far
above
Sir
W.
T.
for
all
these
great
qualities
;
yet
My
Lord
▪
affords
Sir
W.
just
as
much
difference
,
as
a
petty
Scholar
does
a
famous
Pedant
.
And
to
reward
him
,
Sir
▪
W.
T.
would
make
him
pass
in
the
world
,
for
an
Embassadour
that
was
but
at
best
his
Scholar
.
I
make
account
to
tell
you
,
what
Sir
▪
W.
dare
not
acknowledge
.
Mr.
Hyde
,
being
more
subtile
,
and
of
greater
▪
Abilities
than
Sir
W
▪
and
of
that
quality
too
,
that
was
not
to
be
exposed
,
would
not
intermeddle
in
a
Mediation
,
which
was
like
to
suffer
so
gross
Indignities
,
as
the
Mediation
of
England
suffered
at
the
Treaty
of
Nimeguen
.
One
time
or
other
I
shall
publish
those
Indignities
in
my
Memoires
,
together
with
the
weakness
,
and
tameness
wherewith
they
were
content
to
suffer
them
.
But
now
,
if
Sir
W.
T.
hath
not
spared
such
Illustrious
persons
as
these
:
No
,
not
so
much
as
My
Lord
Treasurer
,
at
present
Marquis
of
Caermarthen
,
laying
something
to
his
charge
,
whom
also
he
does
not
do
that
right
and
Justice
,
which
is
due
to
so
great
a
Minister
of
State
,
one
of
the
greatest
Wits
of
the
Age
,
for
business
;
a
person
so
Loyal
to
the
King
his
Master
,
that
he
sacrificed
himself
for
his
sake
;
and
after
all
,
so
full
of
zeal
for
his
Country
,
that
he
hath
bethought
himself
of
all
expedients
,
and
hath
not
feared
to
expose
himself
to
peril
and
utter
undoing
,
that
he
might
deliver
it
from
the
mischiefs
that
throaten
it
;
If
Sir
Will.
hath
not
spared
the
Kings
person
,
whose
Dignity
and
Reputation
he
so
often
sacrifices
,
can
I
hope
to
escape
his
foul
mouthed
Language
.
Peradventure
he
had
better
have
done
something
else
,
&
something
wiser
;
great
Confident
of
Princes
and
Ks.
the
sole
preserver
of
Flanders
,
as
he
is
,
than
to
have
entred
the
l●st
with
a
Monk
,
with
a
kind
of
an
Agent
,
and
with
a
cunning
Knave
.
But
his
desire
of
revenge
hath
prevailed
,
he
believes
himself
cruelly
wrong'd
▪
and
he
is
in
the
right
on
't
,
for
that
at
the
Hague
and
at
Nimeguen
,
which
he
was
confident
would
be
the
Theatre
of
his
Glory
,
they
made
him
act
a
disgraceful
ridiculous
part
.
He
imagines
I
am
partly
the
cause
of
it
,
either
because
that
my
Voyage
to
Nimeguen
might
have
been
the
effect
of
my
Negotiation
,
which
he
might
have
gathered
by
the
Kings
answer
,
or
,
because
I
might
have
done
nothing
in
Holland
,
but
administer
cause
of
Suspicions
and
Umbrages
,
that
hasten'd
on
the
Peace
,
in
spite
of
his
Teeth
,
and
Reverst
the
Treaty
he
had
but
lately
concluded
at
the
Hague
.
My
Lord
,
If
I
be
not
mistaken
,
here
is
another
occasion
of
Sir
W.
T.
being
vext
at
me
.
There
was
a
Treaty
a
foot
between
England
and
Spain
,
for
which
purpose
Sir
W.
was
employ'd
without
any
other
design
in
reference
to
England
,
but
to
abase
the
Parliament
,
and
no
other
on
the
Spaniards
side
,
but
only
to
add
a
little
more
reputation
to
their
Affairs
.
Now
the
Parliament
got
nothing
by
it
,
and
the
greatest
advantage
accrued
to
the
Spaniard
,
who
upon
this
occasion
made
him
really
believe
it
,
and
so
took
him
for
a
Cully
.
A
sad
acknowledgment
for
having
alone
saved
Flanders
for
Spain
!
I
ridiculed
this
Treaty
,
I
made
observations
thereon
,
that
were
published
in
Holland
,
and
men
judged
that
the
observations
were
well
grounded
:
After
that
,
and
after
the
business
of
Nimeguen
,
I
was
not
to
expec●
any
Encomiums
from
so
unjust
a
person
as
Sir
W.
T.
but
still
he
might
have
writ
more
like
a
Gentleman
,
and
have
spoken
of
me
without
ever
loosing
the
respect
which
he
owed
to
my
Master
,
without
doing
so
great
an
injury
in
my
person
,
both
to
my
Name
,
and
Family
out
of
a
merry
humour
,
for
in
whatsoever
past
,
I
performed
the
duty
of
a
Minister
,
both
zealous
and
most
faithful
;
Nay
,
and
I
did
nothing
but
even
by
concurrance
and
good
likeing
of
the
King
of
England
.
I
beseech
you
,
My
Lord
,
conserve
for
me
the
honour
of
your
gracious
favour
,
and
be
fully
perswaded
,
that
I
shall
be
all
my
life
long
,
with
much
respect
.
Your
most
humble
,
&c.
FINIS
.
AN
ADVERTISEMENT
,
Concerning
the
Foregoing
Letter
.
IT
is
now
,
some
Months
ago
since
the
Foreign
Journals
gave
us
to
understand
,
that
Monsieur
de
Cross
,
the
Ingenious
Author
of
the
foregoing
Treatise
,
was
meditating
an
Answer
to
Sir
William
Temple's
Memoirs
.
As
nothing
more
sensibly
touches
us
,
than
to
have
our
Reputation
wounded
by
those
Persons
whom
we
never
injured
.
We
are
not
to
admire
that
our
Author
who
thought
himself
unjustly
attacked
in
these
Memoirs
,
took
the
first
opportunity
to
justifie
his
proceedings
to
the
World
:
and
if
he
sometimes
falls
out
into
severe
or
indecent
Language
,
it
is
to
be
remembred
that
he
was
not
the
first
Agressor
,
but
that
his
Adversary
taught
him
the
way
.
How
well
M.
de
Cross
has
acquitted
himself
in
this
Affair
,
I
will
by
no
means
take
upon
me
to
determine
.
Let
the
Reader
,
without
prejudice
or
partiality
,
confider
what
both
Parties
say
,
and
then
let
him
judge
for
himself
.
When
these
Memoirs
first
appeared
in
publick
,
I
remember
the
Criticks
in
Town
were
much
divided
in
their
Sentiments
about
them
;
some
found
fault
with
the
Stile
,
as
too
Iuscious
and
affected
;
others
censured
the
Digressions
,
as
Foreign
to
the
Business
in
hand
,
and
particularly
the
Story
of
Prince
Maurice's
Parrot
,
that
(
to
use
Sir
William's
own
Expression
,
p.
58.
)
spoke
,
and
asked
,
and
answered
common
Questions
,
●ike
a
reasonable
Creature
.
Lastly
,
●he
Graver
sort
of
People
were
scandalized
to
see
several
Persons
eminent
both
for
their
Station
and
Quality
,
and
some
of
them
still
Living
,
treated
with
so
much
Freedom
,
and
with
so
little
Ceremony
;
adding
,
that
the
Author
every
where
appeared
too
full
of
himself
,
which
I
find
is
the
very
Character
,
which
the
French
Relator
of
the
Negotiation
at
Nimeguen
,
has
been
pleased
to
bestow
upon
him
.
Indeed
,
as
for
the
Language
of
the
Memoirs
,
a
Man
needs
but
turn
over
half
a
dozen
Pages
to
be
convinced
that
the
first
Objection
is
just
and
reasonable
.
Every
Leaf
almost
stands
charged
with
Gallicisms
,
more
or
less
;
and
indeed
't
is
odd
enough
to
see
a
Man
of
Sir
William
Temples's
Constitution
,
who
all
along
declares
such
an
invincible
Aversion
to
the
French
Nation
,
so
fondly
doting
upon
their
Expressions
,
even
where
he
had
no
necessity
to
use
them
.
But
at
the
same
time
,
I
confess
,
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
his
Digressions
are
not
so
faulty
,
it
being
not
amiss
in
a
just
History
,
but
especially
in
Memoirs
,
to
relieve
a
serious
Scene
,
now
and
then
,
with
something
that
is
diverting
and
agreeable
.
As
for
the
last
Objection
,
I
have
nothing
to
say
to
it
at
present
,
since
it
is
not
improbable
but
that
the
following
Book
of
Monsieur
de
Cross
may
prevail
with
him
to
attempt
his
own
Justification
.
FINIS
.