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[1693], by Monsieur de Cros + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Letter from Monsieur de Cros,... being an answer to Sir Wm Temple's memoirs... [1693] + +Author: Monsieur de Cros + +Release Date: June 2, 2010 [EBook #32656] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTER FROM MONSIEUR DE CROS *** + + + + +Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<h1>LETTER</h1> + +<h5>FROM</h5> + +<h3>Monsieur <i>de CROS</i>,</h3> + +<h4>Who was an Embassador at the Treaty of +<i>Nimeguen</i>, and a Resident at <i>England</i>, in +K. <i>Charles</i> the Second's Reign.) To the +Lord ——</h4> + +<h5>BEING AN</h5> + +<h1>ANSWER</h1> + +<h4>TO</h4> + +<h3>Sir <i>W<sup>m</sup> TEMPLE</i>'s</h3> + +<h2>MEMOIRS,</h2> + +<h4>Concerning what passed from the Year 1672, +until the Year 1679.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 35%;" /> +<h3><i>LONDON,</i></h3> + +<h4>Printed for <i>Abel Roper</i> at the <i>Mitre</i>, near +<i>Temple-Bar</i>, 1693,</h4> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> +<h2>A LETTER from Mons. <i>de Cros</i>, &c.</h2> + + +<p><i>My Lord</i>,</p> + +<p>I have been informed of the Calumnies that Sir <i>W. T.</i> hath caused to +be Printed against me. I know very well that Sir <i>W.</i> 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 <i>Charles</i>'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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<i>W. T.</i> hath so much envied: for I am particularly +acquainted with Sir <i>W</i>'s Pride. He looks upon +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>Without doubt this is quite different from that +Sincerity and Modesty which reigns throughout +the Memoirs of <i>Villeroy</i>, in the Negotiations and +Transactions of <i>Jeanin</i>, in the Letters of Card. +<i>Dossat</i>, 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 <i>W</i>'s Book-Seller stiles him, <i>One of the +Greatest Men of this Age</i>. It had been Sir <i>W</i>'s duty +to have regulated himself according to their +most excellent Pattern.</p> + +<p>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 short time, <i>My Lord</i>, I shall +give you occasion to observe many others. <i>The +Negotiations</i>, saith he, <i>that I managed and transacted +at the</i> Hague, <i>at</i> Brussels, <i>at</i> Aix la Chapelle, +<i>which saved</i> Flanders <i>from the</i> French <i>Churches, in +68. made People believe I had some Credit and Reputation +amongst the</i> Spaniards, <i>as well as in</i> Holland.</p> + +<p>'Twas a Piece of strange Ingratitude of the <i>Hollanders</i> and +<i>Spaniards</i>, as well as of his own dear Country-men, so much concern'd +for the preservation of <i>Flanders</i>, not to rear him a Statue, which, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>he saith, some-where else, Mr. <i>Godolphin</i> had promised him. Could +Sir. <i>W. T.</i> have done any thing to deserve it more; or was there any +thing more worthy of Triumph than to have preserved <i>Flanders</i>, a +Country so important to the <i>Spaniard</i>, and the only Bulwark of +<i>Holland</i> and <i>England</i>? But Sir <i>W.</i> 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.</p> + +<p>It was not the Negotiations, my Lord, that Sir <i>W.</i> +tells us he managed at the <i>Hague</i>, <i>Brussels</i>, and at <i>Aix +la Chappelle</i>, which saved <i>Flanders</i> from the hands of +the <i>French</i>, in 1668. The <i>French</i> 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 <i>W.</i> in Prudence, Experience, and Capacity, +one, who was in the Opinion even of his Enemies, the most able +Manager of Affairs of his Age.</p> + +<p>I shall not undertake, my Lord, in this place, +strictly to examine Sir <i>W. Temple</i>'s <i>Memoirs</i>: 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.</p> + +<p>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 que<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>stion +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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Primum Mobile</i> 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 <i>W.</i> may well imagine that I did not ill improve this able +Ministers Confidence, when Sir <i>W.</i> tells us, <i>That I had wholly +devoted my self to him</i>.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Nimeguen</i>; and +it would be a great shame that a Man <i>more cunning and subtil than +them all</i>, according to the King's own testimony, as Sir <i>W.</i> 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 <i>Swede</i> and my Master +had so great an Interest.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + +<p>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 <i>W.</i> doth ingeniously +confess that hitherto 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>W.</i> is mistaken in what he delivers concerning divers +Negotiations of <i>England</i>; and especially concerning my Journey to +<i>Nimeguen</i>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<p>My Design is not at all, my Lord, to write you a Letter full of +Invectives against Sir <i>W.</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>W.</i> 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.</p> + +<p>Sir <i>W.</i> hath shined a long time, 'tis 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: <i>He did so well insinuate himself</i> +(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;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +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 State is obliged to maintain inviolably even in the +least Matters, that doth plainly appear in his Memoirs.</p> + +<p>The late King of England <i>perceived</i> 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 +<i>W.</i> might have some Credit amongst the <i>Spaniards</i>, as well as in +<i>Holland</i>, as he himself assures us he had.</p> + +<p>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; 'tis a Truth owned and +confess'd by Sir <i>W.</i> 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.</p> + +<p>Besides, the King slighted him after the Peace at <i>Nimeguen</i>, 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 perfidi<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>ousness 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 <i>Hague</i>, to +<i>Nimeguen</i>, for the conclusion of the Peace, by Order of his Majesty.</p> + +<p>It is concerning this business that has made so great a noise for +which Sir <i>W.</i> 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 <i>W.</i> with which Pensioner +<i>Fagel</i> was so much astonished, and which in Sirs <i>W</i>'s opinion did +entirely change the Fate of <i>Christendom</i>.</p> + +<p>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 <i>W.</i> 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 upon him.</p> + +<p>As for my self at this Conjuncture, in which K. <i>William</i> endeavours +the repose of <i>Christendom</i>, and the Happiness of <i>England</i> with so +much Zeal and Glory, I will not stir up the envy and hatred which has +too much appeared in <i>England</i>; 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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> + +<p>There arrived, said Sir <i>W. at that time from</i> England, <i>one whose +name was</i> de Cros. I shall not stop, my Lord, upon this Term of +Contempt, <i>One called</i>; it is a very malicious Expression, in respect +of my self; the late King of <i>England</i> 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.</p> + +<p><i>He was</i> (continues Sir <i>W.</i>) <i>a French Monk who had +lately quitted his Frock for a Petticoat</i>. 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 <i>Nimeguen</i>, that he +would have nothing to do with the Pope's <i>Nuncio</i>. +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 as amongst 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 <i>W.T.</i> 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 <i>W.</i> think he can dishonour me, in reproaching +me for leaving a Profession which himself<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +thinks so contemptible, for a <i>Petticoat</i>?</p> + +<p>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 <i>France</i>, <i>Spain</i> +and <i>Italy</i>, where ancient Houses do sacrifice a good part of their +Families in Monasteries; 'tis a Maxim, to say the truth, most cruel +and horrid.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<i>England</i> more good than Sir <i>W.</i> himself; if he do not know it, the +History of <i>England</i> and <i>Scotland</i> 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 <i>W</i>'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.</p> + +<p>Besides, had I even cast off the Monk's Habit for a Petticoat, I +should have done no more than a great many worthy deserving Persons +have done; yea, some of the Pope's <i>Nuncio's</i>, 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 <i>W.</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>I did so well insinuate my self</i>, saith Sir <i>W. into the Court of</i> +Sweden, <i>that I obtained from thence a Commission to be a kind of an +Agent in</i> England. That is very dirty. I have had the management of +Affairs and the Quality of Envoy, when Sir <i>W.</i> had no more than that +of an Agent or Resident at <i>Brussels</i>. I was Envoy at the Court of +<i>England</i> before ever I was in <i>Sweden</i>, or before ever I had any +acquaintance there.</p> + +<p>I went the first time to <i>Sweden</i> just at that time +the late King of <i>England</i> sent me into <i>Sweden</i> and +<i>Denmark</i>, about the beginning of the Year 1676. +The Pretence was for to demand the free passage +of Letters; which the King of <i>Denmark</i> refused, +for hastening the Congress of <i>Nimeguen</i>, 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 <i>England</i>, but indeed for another Potentate.—That +shall be made appear some time or other in +my Memoirs.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p><p>Had I been a kind of a <i>Swedish</i> Agent, I should not have defended +myself 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 <i>W.</i> speaks of, I was dignified with the Quality of Envoy +Extraordinary from the Duke of <i>Holstein Gottorp</i>, acknowledged and +received at the Court of <i>England</i> for such.</p> + +<p>Sir <i>W.</i> knows that very well, there was sent +him divers Memoirs to <i>Nimeguen</i> whilst the Mediation +lasted, which I had delivered in at <i>London</i>, +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 <i>Leoline Jenkyns</i>.</p> + +<p>Moreover, you may see Sir <i>W.T.</i> mentions in his +Memoirs all the Potentates that had any interest +in the Peace of <i>Nimeguen</i>, except the Duke of <i>Holstein +Gottorp</i>, notwithstanding he had two Ministers +at the Congress, and although <i>France</i> had stipulated +for his re-establishment in the second Article or +Condition of the Peace, such who shall peruse the +Memoirs of Sir <i>W</i> might be apt to think that the +Duke of <i>Holstein</i> 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 <i>W.</i> is not the +Steward of Glory and Immortality.</p> + +<p>Sir <i>W.</i> 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 <i>Olivencrantz</i> might be +obliged to pass from <i>Nimeguen</i> into <i>England</i>. That +<i>Swedish</i> Embassador lodg'd at that time in my house.</p> + +<p>'Tis true indeed, as the Interests of my Master +were inseparable from those of <i>Sweden</i>, I found +my self engaged to be very much concerned in the +Interests of that Crown in whatsoever might<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +depend on my care: There was an Envoy extraordinary +from <i>Sweden</i> at <i>London</i>; and yet for all +that, the <i>Swedish</i> Ambassadors did me the Honour +to maintain a very regular Correspondence +by Letters with me: The King of <i>England</i> was +also graciously pleased to hear me in what concerned +the Affairs of the <i>Swede</i>, although I was no +otherwise authorized for it. Monsieur <i>Olivencrantz</i>, +his Voyage to <i>London</i> 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 <i>Nimeguen</i> was a Consequence, +the Restitution of <i>Sweden</i> was especially +insisted upon.</p> + +<p>All this made many Men believe, that I was intrusted with the +Management of the Affairs of this Crown; and Monsieur <i>Van Beuninguen</i> +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 +<i>Nimeguen</i>, and about this Negotiation, that it was evident it was a +very great Secret.</p> + +<p><i>Since his being at</i> London, saith Sir <i>W.</i> speaking of me, <i>he hath +wholly devoted himself to Monsieur</i> Barillon, <i>the</i> French +<i>Ambassador, under pretence to act for the Interests of</i> Sweden. +Monsieur <i>Barillon</i> was not at that time in <i>London</i>, when I was sent +thither, he came not thither till a long time after; I found Monsieur +<i>le Marquis de Ruvigni</i> there, whom Monsieur <i>Courtin</i> succeeded; and +after that Monsieur <i>Barillon</i> came to take the place of Monsieur +<i>Courtin</i>.</p> + +<p>I never devoted my self to this Ambassador, and I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> never had any +Correspondence or was in League with him prejudicial to my Duty. Nay, +it happened the King of <i>England</i> one day, having a design more +especially to take into Consideration the <i>Swedish</i> Interests, +Monsieur <i>de Barillon</i> diverted him from it; whether for fear lest a +particular Peace should be clapp'd up between the <i>Northern</i> 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.</p> + +<p>I was so much put to it, and fell out with Mr. <i>Barillon</i> so much +thereupon, that I did not so much as speak to him in 3 or 4 months; +nay, one day as the King was at Dinner I cast in his teeth what had +past in the presence of <i>Monsieur Wachmeister</i>, Envoy-Extraordinary +from the King of <i>Sweden</i>. I do not question but Monsieur +<i>Wachmeister</i> remembers it well enough; he is no less worthy to be +believed, than he is brave and undaunted.</p> + +<p>And now after this manner I became all one with the Ambassador of +<i>France</i>. But yet I must confess that at such time as he stickled for +my Master's Interest and that of the <i>Swede</i>, I was intirely devoted +to him, thinking my self most happy that I was enabled to pay my most +humble Services to such a great Monarch, whose Subject I have the +honour to be, without failing in my Loyalty and Allegiance, which I +ought to pay him before all others whatsoever.</p> + +<p>Whereupon, my Lord, I shall tell you one thing, in which <i>Monsieur</i> de +<i>Ruvigni</i>, at present Lord <i>Galloway</i>, cannot but agree with me, no, +nor <i>Monsieur Olivencrantz</i> neither. The departure of this Ambassador +for <i>England</i>, occasioned shrewd suspici<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>ons both at <i>Nimeguen</i> and +<i>London</i> to the <i>French Ambassadors</i>. Monsieur <i>Barillon</i> was much +alarm'd at it, especially when he saw that Monsieur <i>Olivencrantz</i> +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 <i>Barillon</i> put all in practice to sift him to the +bottom; nevertheless all the offers of this <i>French</i> Embassador proved +ineffectual, and wrought thing upon this Man; who, if a man would give +credit to Sir <i>W.T.</i> was intirely devoted to Mons. <i>Barillon</i>, and yet +Mons. <i>Barillon</i> found him not to be corrupted or bribed.</p> + +<p>One would think, my lord, that Sir <i>W.T.</i> has a +mind to make Men believe, that I was only sent into +<i>Holland</i> 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, <i>who procured +this Dispatch</i>.</p> + +<p>What means the King then, when he says, That +<i>I had been too cunning for them all</i>? There is not so +much Prudence and great Abilities required in a +<i>Courier</i>; 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 <i>W.</i> hath been pleased to say, That I was so +much devoted to the King; yea, and to Monsieur <i>Barillon</i> +too, and so little tender of my Master's Dignity, +that I would comply with any Offices.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + +<p>If I were a Courier or Messenger, Monsieur +<i>T.</i> 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 <i>T.</i> spoke +of this Dispatch, which as he says, the Court +sent him, to be kept as a mighty Secret, <i>Pensioner</i> +Fagel, says he, <i>knew all the Contents, and was +quite stun'd at it</i>. Du Cross <i>had industriously informed +the Deputies of the Town</i>, (1 Copy from +Monsieur <i>T.</i>) <i>and had told them that the two Kings +were intirely agreed on the Conditions of Peace; +that he had carried Orders to Monsieur</i> T. <i>to go to</i> +Nimeguen, <i>and that at his Arrival there he would +find the Letters of my Lord</i> Sunderland, <i>the</i> English +<i>Ambassador, at</i> Paris, <i>with all the Articles as +they are concluded between the two Crowns</i>.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Hague</i>. Monsieur <i>T.</i> will be +much more stun'd than Monsieur <i>Fagel</i> was, +when he shall know hereafter what past at the +<i>Hague</i>, 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 <i>T.</i> +will see cleerly one day, how far <i>this only incident +did change the Fate of</i> Christendome.</p> + +<p><i>I pretend not</i>, adds Monsieur <i>T. to determine by</i> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +<i>whose Means, and how</i> du Cross, <i>obtained this Dispatch</i>. +And a little lower, <i>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</i> Portsmouths <i>apartment, by the intervention +of Monsieur</i> Barillon.</p> + +<p>It's pity, that an <i>English</i> 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 +<i>Hague</i>, and at <i>Nimeguin</i>, but even since his return +into <i>England</i>, of what past there, and +chiefly in that very affair, wherein Monsieur +<i>T.</i> was more exercised than in any other Business +that he ever undertook.</p> + +<p>But how he could be know it, since neither +the Duke of <i>York</i> nor my Lord Treasurer, nor +hardly the King himself (if we may believe +Monsieur <i>T.</i>) knew any thing of it; And <i>that +these Orders were made in one morning, in an +hours time, at the Dutchess of</i> Portsmouths <i>Apartment, +by the Interception of Monsieur</i> Barillon.</p> + +<p>Observe now, if you please, my Lord, the +Malice of Monsieur <i>T.</i> in Relation to Monsieur +<i>Williamson</i>, on whom he would give in this +place, the Character of Perfidy, as he hath done +in diverse other parts of his Memoirs. Monsieur +<i>T.</i> ought to have had at least, some respect for +the King, whose Orders Monsieur <i>Williamson</i> +did Execute.</p> + +<p><i>I never talkt of it</i>, says Monsieur <i>T. to the Secretary of State</i> +Williamson, as if he would lay<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> that he was sufficiently perswaded +that Monsieur <i>Williamson</i> was a Man altogether for <i>France</i>, and that +he was intirely devoted as well as my self, to Monsieur <i>Barillon</i>, +and that he was the Author of this Dispatch.</p> + +<p>Is it not clear that Monsieur <i>T.</i> would make us +imagine that Monsieur the <i>Chevalier Williamson</i>, +Secretary of State, the <i>French</i> Ambassador, and the +Dutchess of <i>Portsmouth</i> 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 <i>Portsmouths</i> +Lodgings, she having an irreconcilable aversion for +me, and I for her.</p> + +<p>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 <i>T.</i>) <i>The Fate of Christendom was concluded +and made up, in one hours time, in the apartment of the Dutchess of</i> +Portsmouth, <i>by the Intervention of Monsieur</i> Barillon.</p> + +<p>Monsieur <i>T.</i> 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 <i>Valentiennes</i>, <i>Cambray</i>, St. <i>Omer</i>, and +several other places in <i>Flanders</i>, to be taken, without +Murmur or Opposition; But the King of <i>England</i> +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 <i>French</i> Ambassadours, and by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +the Charms of a Mistress, Sacrifices all <i>Europe</i>, and +his own Estate, to a Power that is naturally an Enemy +to <i>England</i>. 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 <i>T.</i> says, and can +any man conclude, otherwise when he reads this +worthy passage in his Memoirs?</p> + +<p>Certain it is, that this Dispatch was made up by +Monsieur <i>Williamson</i>, and by the Kings Order. And +since the King was pleased to avoid opening his +mind hereon to Monsieur <i>T.</i> giving him no other +answer, but that I had been <i>more cunning than all +of 'em</i>; Monsieur <i>T.</i> might possibly Address himself +to Monsieur <i>Williamson</i>, who, it may be, might +tell him, <i>by whose means, and how</i> Du Cross <i>had obtained +this Dispatch</i>.</p> + +<p>'Tis plain that Monsieur <i>T.</i> 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 <i>Aix la Chapelle</i> is his Favourite, +because he hath the Vanity to believe it to be +intirely his own work; 'tis easie seen that the Peace +of <i>Nimeguen</i> 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 found +in that Negotiation.</p> + +<p>I would have this Complaisance for Monsieur <i>T.</i> +though he treats me so ill; I would, at least, in some<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +part, draw him out of this great incertainty, on +the subject of the Dispatch which I brought him.</p> + +<p>He is deceived, when he imputes this Resolution +to the Intrigues and Perswasions of <i>France</i>. It was +neither managed, nor taken, nor dispatcht, at the +Dutchess of <i>Portsmouth</i>'s; nor was it by the means +or intervention of Monsieur <i>Barillon</i>. That 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 <i>Ruvigny</i>, the Son, carryed the first News +to the King, his Master, the same day that I parted +for <i>Nimeguen</i>. Monsieur <i>Williamson</i> knew well what +was contained in the Dispatch to Monsieur <i>T.</i> 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 <i>Coventry</i>'s Office, yet he was then +ignorant of the true subject of my Voyage, and +perhaps he never knew it.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Swedeland</i> to resolve themselves, and make their Answer. The +King's design was doubtless aimed for the good of <i>Europe</i>, and the +publick tranquility, but in truth, he had not in his Eye, nor did he +certainly believe <i>that happy Fate of Christendome</i>, for which +Monsieur <i>T.</i> labours so earnestly in consort with some particular +Persons, Enemies to the State, Seditious, and Disturbers of the +Publick Repose.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + +<p>But <i>the King said pleasantly</i>, adds Monsieur <i>T.</i> +<i>that the Rogue</i> (Coquin) du Cross <i>had outwitted +them all</i>. If Monsieur <i>T.</i> 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,</p> + +<p>Coquin, <i>he calls me, with mighty disdain</i>.</p> + +<p>Doubtless, I should answer Monsieur <i>T.</i> thus,</p> + +<p><i>Seek your</i> Coquins <i>elsewhere, you're one your self</i>, But +the Person of Kings is sacred. Besides, Can that be +an abuse, which is spoken <i>pleasantly</i>, without the +least design perhaps of offending. For <i>Coquin</i> is a +word which the Late King of <i>England</i> often used, +when he spoke of People for whom he had notwithstanding +Respect and Consideration. 'Tis true, he +used the word also very familiarly, when he was +angry, but at such times he spoke with indignation, +and not pleasantly.</p> + +<p>The Parliament presented an Address to the King +(as Monsieur <i>T.</i> reports) in which they represented +the Progress of the <i>French</i> Arms, and desired him +to stop it before it became more dangerous to <i>England</i>, +and the other Neighbouring Countries. <i>Don +Bernard de Salinas</i> (continues Monsieur <i>T.</i>) 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 <i>Coquins</i>.</p> + +<p>I remembred at my Arrival in <i>England</i>, in 1675, before I was to go +into <i>France</i> 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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> King of <i>France</i> would not receive his own Subjects, in +the Quality of Ministers of other Princes. It happened, I say, that +the King of <i>England</i> (to whom also I had a Commission) bid the +<i>Marquiss of Ruvigni</i>, one Evening, bring me to his Cabinet, and +himself come in with me.</p> + +<p>The King enquired of me, at the first, what news I could tell him of +the Condition of the <i>Swedes</i> Army in <i>Pomerania</i>, through which I +past, and exprest much concern that the <i>Constable Wrangle</i>, not +minding to pass forward into the Empire (as Monsieur <i>T.</i> says) had +thereby different pretences, had attacked the Elector of <i>Branderburg</i> +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.</p> + +<p>Afterwards, I having informed the King of the State of <i>Germany</i>, the +King believing that I was to pass into <i>France</i>, spoke to me in these +very words. <i>Monsieur, tell the King, my Brother, that it is much +against my mind that I have made Peace with these</i> Coquins, <i>the</i> +Hollanders, <i>Monsieur the Marquiss of</i> Ruvigny, <i>who stands here, +knows it well</i>.</p> + +<p>Sometime before the making of this Peace, the +King talking with Monsieur <i>de Shrenborn</i> Envoy +from <i>Mayence</i>, told him also, in Relation to the +<i>Hollanders, In a little time, Monsieur, I will bring +these</i> Coquins <i>to Reason</i>. Monsieur <i>de Barillon</i> writ +to the Count <i>d' Avaux</i>, the <i>French</i> Ambassadour at +the <i>Hague</i>, certain Discourses which the King had +concerning the <i>Hollanders</i>. The Count <i>d' Avaux</i> +made use of this to encrease the just Suspitions of the +<i>Estates</i>. He carried the Letters of Monsieur <i>Barillon</i>, +to Monsieur <i>Fagel</i>. Whereupon, the <i>States</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +made a terrible Complaint, and the King of <i>England</i> +said on this Occasion to the Duke of <i>Lauderdale</i>, +that <i>Monsieur</i> Barillon, <i>and the Count</i> d' Avaux +<i>were</i> Coquins.</p> + +<p>Had the King called me <i>Coquin</i>, 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 <i>France</i> ever had; and also the +greatest Lords of his own Kingdom who were Authors +of the Address which the Commons presented +him.</p> + +<p>There is also this difference, that the King, speaking +of those Lords, those Ambassadours, and the +<i>Hollanders</i>, he called them <i>Coquins</i> in anger, but +when he spoke of me, he said it <i>pleasantly</i> (according +to Monsieur <i>T.</i>) <i>and that I was a cunning</i> Coquin, +<i>more cunning than the Duke of</i> York, <i>my Lord +Treasurer, the Secretary of State</i> Williamson, <i>and +even the King himself</i>.</p> + +<p>Either I am much deceived, or all the Ministers +of the Confederates that were then at <i>London</i>, would +have been all <i>Coquins</i> at this rate, and Monsieur +<i>Temple</i> himself, and would have deceived those +who abused and deceived them. For besides, +there is more credit methinks on such like Occasions, +<i>to be a cunning Rogue</i>, 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 <i>Monk</i> +and a sort of Agent; Sir <i>William Temple</i>, and some +others, were truly so on this occasion.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p>But I would acquaint Sir <i>W. Temple</i> 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 +if 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 +<i>Barillon</i>, to whom I was so much devoted; were +he alive he might witness that as well as the +Aversion the King of <i>England</i> always bore to +Sir <i>W. Temple</i>; and the little Esteem he had of +him at bottom. Upon my return from <i>Nimeguen</i> +to <i>London</i>, I went immediately to Court, as soon +as I came there I meet Prince <i>Rupert</i>, 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, <i>O Dissimulation</i>. +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 <i>W. T.</i> to be in, and +what I knew of his neglect of his Majesties Orders; +The King seemed very angry with Sir <i>W</i>'s. +Proceedings, and said, <i>he was a very impertinent +R—— to find fault with my Commands</i>.</p> + +<p>But if the late K. of <i>England</i>, did not approve of my Conduct in the +affairs of <i>Nimeguen</i>, 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 +<i>Hague</i>, how that the two Kings of <i>England</i> and <i>France</i> were +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +intirely agreed upon Conditions of Peace; if this accident changed the +Destiny of <i>Christendom</i>, and what endeavours soever the English Court +had made, there were no ways to repair the Breach. If I was a Fool, a +peice of an Agent, or a Knave, How comes it that the King suffer'd me +to stay in <i>England</i> 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 <i>Nimeguen</i>? 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?</p> + +<p>It was not my quality of Envoy Extraordinary +of the Duke <i>de Gottorp</i>, 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 upon the +point of making Mounsieur <i>Van Beuningen</i> Ambassador +to the States General, to withdraw and +get him out of the Land, because he had got the +word <i>Connivance</i>, to be foisted into a Memorial +he presented to the King, for the recalling of +the English Forces, which bore Armes in <i>France</i>.</p> + +<p><i>Don Barnard de Salinas</i> was the Spanish Envoy; +the King made much of him, yea and loved him for +the particular care he had in <i>Flanders</i> of the education +of the E. of <i>Plym.</i> 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 +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +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 <i>Don +Bern. de Salinas</i>, not in the least considering his +Character, nor the Kindness wherewith he had +always honoured this Minister; Yea and he Banished +him too, without any respect to the King +of <i>Spain</i>.</p> + +<p>But, for me who had abused and deceived the +D. of <i>York</i>, My Lord Treasurer, ay, and the +K. himself, who had overthrown all those fair and +vast Projects, which the Confederates had contrived +at <i>London</i> and <i>Nimeguen</i>; and Sir <i>W. T.</i> +at the <i>Hague</i>, which had disclosed the Kings dispatches, +a <i>master piece of Secrecy, who was the cause +of quite changing the Fate of Christendom</i>: for me, +I say, against whom the P. of <i>Orange</i> 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 <i>W. T.</i> 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 <i>W. T.</i></p> + +<p>After all that, can any body reasonably believe +that the K. of <i>England</i> might have lookt upon +me as <i>a Rogue</i>: And when he told Sir <i>W. T.</i> +after a droleing manner that I was a <i>Rogue and +had out witted them all</i>, may it not be probable, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +that he had a mind to jeer him, and to make +him sensible that he was taken but for Fool? It +was very like so to be.</p> + +<p>I have not gone about, My Lord, to say in +this place what I might say, to wipe of all those +scandalous impressions that Sir <i>W. T.</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>Lauderdale</i>, that most +Zealous, and most Faithful Minister, that ever +the King was Master of; on My Lord <i>Arlington</i> +whom Sir <i>W.</i> 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 <i>Arlington</i> +by base indirect means: This is no hard +matter to make out, even by Sir <i>W. T.</i> 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 <i>Arlingtons</i> own mouth, but +also from a noted Minister of those times.</p> + +<p>What a piece of impudence to call in question +and tax the Principal Ministers, and the soberest +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +Magistrates of <i>Holland</i>, viz. Monsieur <i>de Beverning</i>, +Monsieur <i>Valknier</i> and others, generally +esteemed by every body. To arraign them, I +say, some for Avarice, others for Partiality, I +had almost said for betraying their Trust. But +above all, to give such disadvantagious representations +of the E. of <i>Rochester</i>, and of Sir <i>Leoline +Jenkyns</i>; that, it would have been all one if +he had said, that Sir <i>Leoline</i>, was a man of the +other World, a plain downright Ideot, void of +insight and Experience: And that <i>Law. Hyde</i>, +now E. of <i>Rochester</i>, was a Lord altogether unacquainted +with, and no ways fit for the imployment +the King gave him at <i>Nimeguen</i>; nevertheless, +Sir <i>Leoline</i> was made Secretary of State, +and no notice at all taken of Sir <i>W.</i></p> + +<p>As for <i>Laurence Hyde</i>, Sir <i>W.</i> speaks first of +him, as if he were a Youth, that should have +been sent to the University, <i>I plainly perceive</i>, +saith he, <i>that the chief design of that Commission +was to introduce Mr.</i> Hyde <i>into this sort of employment, +and to let him understand the manner +how the men behave themselves in the +same</i>, then he adds, <i>He excused himself out of modesty, +to have any thing to do with any Conference, +and Compiling Dispatches</i>. Was it out of the respect +he owed to Sir <i>W. T.</i> 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 <i>Europe</i>, who +was chosen as Chief of the Embasie at <i>Nimeguen</i>, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +one who in all respects is so far above Sir +<i>W.T.</i> for all these great qualities; yet My Lord, +affords Sir <i>W.</i> just as much <i>difference</i>, as a petty +Scholar does a famous Pedant. And to reward +him, Sir <i>W. T.</i> would make him pass in the +world, for an Embassadour that was but at best +his Scholar.</p> + +<p>I make account to tell you, what Sir <i>W.</i> dare +not acknowledge. Mr. <i>Hyde</i>, being more subtile, +and of greater Abilities than Sir <i>W.</i> 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 <i>England</i> suffered at the Treaty of <i>Nimeguen</i>. +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.</p> + +<p>But now, if Sir <i>W. T.</i> hath not spared such Illustrious +persons as these: No, not so much as +My Lord Treasurer, at present Marquis of <i>Caermarthen</i>, +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 threaten it; If Sir <i>Will.</i> hath not spared +the Kings person, whose Dignity and Reputation +he so often sacrifices, can I hope to escape +his foul mouthed Language.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p> + +<p>Peradventure he had better have done something +else, & something wiser; great Confident of +Princes and Ks. the sole preserver of <i>Flanders</i>, as +he is, than to have entred the list with <i>a Monk, +with a kind of an Agent, and with a cunning Knave</i>. +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 <i>Hague</i> and at <i>Nimeguen</i>, +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 <i>Nimeguen</i> 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 <i>Holland</i>, 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 +<i>Hague</i>.</p> + +<p>My Lord, If I be not mistaken, here is another +occasion of Sir <i>W.T.</i> being vext at me. There +was a Treaty a foot between <i>England</i> and <i>Spain</i>, +for which purpose Sir <i>W.</i> was employ'd without +any other design in reference to <i>England</i>, but to +abase the Parliament, and no other on the <i>Spaniards</i> +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 <i>alone +saved</i> Flanders <i>for</i> Spain! I ridiculed this Treaty, +I made observations thereon, that were publi<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>shed +in <i>Holland</i>, and men judged that the observations +were well grounded: After that, and +after the business of <i>Nimeguen</i>, I was not to expect +any Encomiums from so unjust a person as +Sir <i>W. T.</i> 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 <i>England</i>.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p style='text-align:right'> +<i>Your most humble</i>, &c.<br /> +</p> + +<h3><i>FINIS.</i></h3> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> +<h3><small>AN</small><br /> + +ADVERTISEMENT,<br /> + +<small>Concerning the</small><br /> + +<big>Foregoing Letter.</big></h3> + + +<p><i>It is now some Months ago since the +Foreign Journals gave us to understand, +that</i> Mousieur de Cross, <i>the Ingenious +Author of the foregoing Treatise, +was meditating an Answer to Sir</i> William +Temple's <i>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</i> Memoirs, <i>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</i> M. de Cross <i>has acquitted himself +in this Affair, I will by no means take +upon me to determine. Let the Reader, +without prejudice or partiality, consider +what both Parties say, and then let him +judge for himself.</i></p> + +<p><i>When these</i> Memoirs <i>first appeared in +publick, I remember the</i> Criticks <i>in +Town were much divided in their Sentiments +about them; some found fault +with the Stile, as too luscious and affected; +others censured the Digressions, +as Foreign to the Business in hand, and +particularly the Story of Prince</i> Maurice's +<i>Parrot, that (to use Sir</i> William's <i>own +Expression</i>, p. 58.) spoke, and asked, +and answered common Questions, +like a reasonable Creature. <i>Lastly, +the Graver sort of</i> People <i>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</i> French <i>Relator of the Negotiation +at</i> Nimeguen, <i>has been pleased +to bestow upon him.</i></p> + +<p><i>Indeed, as for the Language of the</i> +Memoirs, <i>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</i> +Gallicisms, <i>more or less; and indeed +'tis odd enough to see a Man of Sir</i> William +Temples's <i>Constitution, who all +along declares such an invincible Aversion +to the</i> French <i>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</i> Memoirs, <i>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</i> Monsieur de Cross +<i>may prevail with him to attempt his own +Justification.</i></p> + + +<h3>FINIS.</h3> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE</h2> + + +<p>Long "s" has been modernized. Apart from that, printer's inconsistencies in +spelling and punctuation have been retained.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Letter from Monsieur de Cros,... being +an answer to Sir Wm Temple's memoirs... 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Letter from Monsieur de Cros,... being an answer to Sir Wm Temple's memoirs... [1693] + +Author: Monsieur de Cros + +Release Date: June 2, 2010 [EBook #32656] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTER FROM MONSIEUR DE CROS *** + + + + +Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + LETTER + FROM + + Monsieur _de CROS_, + + Who was an Embassador at the Treaty of _Nimeguen_, and a + Resident at _England_, in K. _Charles_ the Second's Reign.) + To the Lord ---- + + BEING AN + ANSWER + TO + Sir _Wm TEMPLE_'s + MEMOIRS, + + Concerning what passed from the Year 1672, until the Year 1679. + + LONDON, + + Printed for _Abel Roper_ at the _Mitre_, near _Temple-Bar_, 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 short time, _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 _Churches, in +68. made People believe I had some Credit and Reputation amongst the_ +Spaniards, _as well as in_ Holland. + +'Twas 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, somewhere 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 hitherto 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, 'tis 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 State 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; 'tis 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 upon 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 as amongst +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; 'tis 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 deserving 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 +myself 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 Gottorp_, 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. + +'Tis 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. _Barillon_ so much +thereupon, that I did not so much as speak to him in 3 or 4 months; +nay, one day as the King was at Dinner I cast in his teeth what had +past in the presence of _Monsieur Wachmeister_, Envoy-Extraordinary +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 is brave and undaunted. + +And now after this manner I became all one with the Ambassador of +_France_. But yet I must confess that at such time as he stickled for +my Master's Interest and that of the _Swede_, I was intirely devoted +to him, thinking my self most happy that I was enabled to pay my most +humble Services to such a great Monarch, whose Subject I have the +honour to be, without failing in my Loyalty and Allegiance, which I +ought to pay him before all others whatsoever. + +Whereupon, my Lord, I shall tell you one thing, in which _Monsieur_ de +_Ruvigni_, at present Lord _Galloway_, cannot but agree with me, no, +nor _Monsieur Olivencrantz_ neither. The departure of this Ambassador +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_. Du Cross _had industriously informed the Deputies of +the Town_, (1 Copy from Monsieur _T._) _and had told them that the two +Kings were intirely agreed on 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 intervention 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, nor 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 lay 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 Monsieur _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_. + +'Tis 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; 'tis +easie seen that the Peace of _Nimeguen_ 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 found 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_. That 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. 'Tis 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. _Don 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' Avaux_, the _French_ Ambassadour at the _Hague_, certain +Discourses which the King had concerning the _Hollanders_. The Count +_d' Avaux_ made use of this to encrease the just Suspitions of the +_Estates_. 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 Confederates +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 if 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; if 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 +peice of an Agent, or 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 upon 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 he 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 _Nimeguen_; and Sir _W. T._ at the _Hague_, which had disclosed +the Kings dispatches, a _master piece of Secrecy, who was the cause of +quite changing the Fate of Christendom_: for me, I say, against whom +the P. of _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 out witted +them 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? It was very +like so to be. + +I have not gone about, My Lord, to say in 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 Beverning_, Monsieur _Valknier_ and others, generally esteemed by +every body. To arraign them, I say, some for Avarice, others for +Partiality, I had almost said for betraying their Trust. But above +all, to give such disadvantagious 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_; nevertheless, 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 _Nime__guen_, 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 threaten 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 list 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 expect 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_ Mousieur 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, +consider 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 luscious 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, like a reasonable Creature. _Lastly, the 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 'tis 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. + + + + + TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES + + +1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. + +2. Long "s" has been modernized. + +3. 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