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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately
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+Title: Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately Published
+       One called, A Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the
+       Memoirs of Christendom, And the Other, An Answer to that
+       Letter.
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+Author: Anonymous
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+  Transcriber's note
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+  This etext contains:
+  - Reflections on a Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the
+    Memoirs of Christendom
+  - Reflections upon an Answer to the Letter from Monsieur De Cros
+
+  The spelling and hyphenation in the original are erratic. No
+  corrections have been made other than those listed at the end of
+  the etext.
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+
+    REFLECTIONS
+
+    UPON
+
+    TWO PAMPHLETS
+
+    Lately Published;
+
+    _One called_, A LETTER from
+    Monsieur _de Cros_, concerning the
+    MEMOIRS of _Christendom_.
+
+    And the Other,
+
+    An ANSWER to that Letter.
+
+    Pretended to have been written by
+    the Author of the said MEMOIRS.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    By a Lover of Truth.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    IMPRIMATUR,
+
+
+    _April_ 21st.
+    1693.               EDWARD COOKE.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    _LONDON._
+
+    Printed for _Richard Baldwin_, near the
+    _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_. 1693.
+
+
+
+
+    REFLECTIONS
+    ON A
+    LETTER
+    From Monsieur _de Cros_, &c.
+
+
+
+
+I Was very glad when I heard that one Monsieur _de Cros_ had published
+an Answer to a late Book, Entituled, _Memoirs of what pass'd in
+_Christendom_, &c._ And could not but expect some considerable
+Discoveries in those Affairs and Intriegues, from a person who thought
+himself a Match for Sir _W. T._ Besides, I hoped it might have had this
+good Effect, to move that Author in his own defence to oblige us once
+more with his Pen. This was sufficient to make me buy this Pamphlet
+greedily, as I do most others; which tho very often they entertain one
+ill enough, yet serve in general for some amusement amidst the Noise and
+Hurry of a dirty Town.
+
+But when I had read it over, I soon found my self deceived in the first;
+and have now lost all hopes of the other, since I have waited above two
+months in that Expectation, whereas two days were sufficient, had that
+Author thought fit to take any notice of such a Trifle, which makes me
+now despair of it; and as I perceiv'd the Town never looked for any such
+thing; so all I meet with, either in Coffee-houses, or Ordinary
+Conversation, have such despicable Thoughts of this Letter, that I now
+begin to find I never had any reason to expect it at all. For in truth,
+the whole Letter seems to me only design'd to _Banter_ Fools or
+Children, and to be written by a man who had lost all Respect to the
+Publick, whom he thinks fit to entertain with such wretched stuff, which
+certainly he could not pretend should either please or instruct any
+Reader, who had not as much malice, and as little Wit as himself. For
+besides Railing and Foul Language, his whole Letter from the beginning
+to the end is an errant Sham, and has nothing in it. I was therefore in
+vain to imagine Sir _W. T._ would descend so much below himself, to take
+any notice of so fulsome a Libel; and I do not believe either _de Cros_,
+or the kind Writer of the _Advertisement_ after the Letter, did ever
+expect it.
+
+For first, If Sir _W. T._ be such a Philosopher, as he seems to be by
+his _Essay upon the Gardens of _Epicurus__, as well as several others;
+he must infinitely contradict the Ideas those Writings have given of
+him, if so sordid and insipid a Trifle as this Letter of _de Cros_ could
+have any power to provoke him, tho it were but to scorn it.
+
+Besides, if he be so proud a Person, as _De Cros_ is pleased to call
+him; certainly, while he remembers his own Quality, and the great
+Employments he has passed through with so much Honour to himself, and
+such important Services for his Prince and Country, such thoughts will
+never allow him to enter the Lists with one, who to say no more, has
+owned himself in his Letter to be _Un Moin Defroquè_, which none who
+understand the least of the _French_ Tongue, need be told, is the lowest
+and most profligate Character that can be given a Man. I suppose the
+reason of it is, because he who has once broke his Vow to God, there are
+People enough apt to believe he will never regard any he makes to them.
+
+A third Reason is, Because his Letter is indeed unanswerable; and
+Prosecution would be as little necessary to him, as to one that pleads
+guilty at the Bar; for he owns over and over, every Line of the Charge
+that he pretends is laid against him; says not one word, either to
+defend or extenuate it; does not contradict the least point in the
+Memoirs he pretends to Answer; nor lays one ill Action to Sir _W. T_'s
+Honour. So that there remains but one way to Answer this Letter with any
+Rule or Justice, and that is, to gather all the cleanly Language one can
+pick up at _Billingsgate_, and bring it in its natural Reeking to the
+Press, and so make up a short, but sweet Pamphlet, set out with a
+Bead-roll of such Pearls, as are always to be found among the
+Oyster-women.
+
+A fourth Reason is, Because that Book which goes by the Name of Sir
+_W. T_'s _Memoirs_, as one sees by the Publishers Preface, has been
+printed wholly without his Knowledg or Consent: For in the very first
+lines he plainly intimates he had his Copy from no Man then alive: And
+a known Writer since, who pretends to have inquired into that matter,
+assures us, the Publisher had it lying by him several years before it was
+published; nor can I find by my own best Inquiries, that Sir _W. T._ has
+ever own'd it. And tho I may believe, like others, that he must have
+writ them, by that excellent Stile, that strength and clearness of
+Expression, as well as by that Spirit and Genius which so brightly
+shines through the whole, and is peculiar to that Author above others of
+his Age; and besides, because I suppose no Man else was capable of
+knowing or discovering so much of these Transactions; yet since they
+have stollen into Publick against his will and his privity, it is not to
+be imagined he should defend a thing he does not reckon as his own; and
+therefore if _de Cros_, or the honest _Translator_, had found themselves
+injured, their resentments had been more justly levelled at the
+Publisher, than the supposed Author.
+
+By all these Reasons, 'tis easy to believe, that a Person of Sir
+_W. T_'s Character and Honour, and whose Reputation is so firmly
+established in the World, will never fall so low to oppose himself
+against the Scurrilous Reproaches of so foul-mouth'd a Railer; 'twould
+be like a set Duel between a strong Man well-arm'd, and a poor wretched
+Cripple. The Quarrel therefore will be more properly turn'd over to the
+rest of Mankind; for tho the venom of _this_ be too weak to reach where
+it aim'd; yet all those who have any regard for Truth or Justice, for
+Learning or Virtue, or even for good Manners and common Civility, must
+think themselves concern'd in a Quarrel, where they find so notorious a
+breach of them all.
+
+'Tis fit therefore so ignominious a Libeller should be exposed in his
+proper Colours, of an infamous, slandring, and unprovok't Railer; which
+tho his own Letter has plentifully done, yet 'twill be very proper to
+point to several places in it, where it is most remarkable.
+
+For my own part, I will confess, I have been a great Reader of all Sir
+_W. T_'s Writings, and perhaps may have doated on some of them,
+especially, _That Immortal Essay on Heroick Virtue_, as one Writer since
+has deservedly called it; and that other upon _Poetry_, and even on this
+of the _Memoirs_. And finding Common Fame, wherever I had met it, agrees
+so well with the Picture these Pieces had given me of him, I will own to
+have had a very great Honour for the Author, as well as for his Books,
+and could not but esteem both a great deal the more for this Letter of
+_de Cros_, when I found that the triple-corded Malice of the _Writer_,
+the _Translator_, and the _Advertiser_, had not given one lash either to
+the Honour of the Person, or the truth of his Books. And all this put
+together, has in very truth given me so much Spight and Indignation,
+that I could not refrain entring on the _Pamphletiers_ Trade, which I
+never did before, nor ever thought I should have done at all: And but
+for this Provocation, could have been very well satisfied to have lived
+on without the itch of seeing how I look in Print; so that I may truly
+say for this, as the Poet does for his Verses,
+
+    _----Facit Indignatio Versus._
+
+Before I enter upon observing what _de Cros_ says concerning Sir _W. T._
+which takes up the greatest part of his Letter, and leaves him either no
+Room, or no Memory for the _Memoirs_ he pretends to Answer; I shall
+first examine what he speaks of himself, and in his own defence, against
+what he takes himself to be charged with.
+
+He begins, p. 10. _There arrived_ (says he, quoting the _Memoirs_) _at
+that time from _England_, one whose Name was _de Cros__. Upon this he
+falls immediately into a Scurrilous Chafe. Now, one would wonder what
+should make the Man so offended to be called by his own Name, or what
+would have become of Sir _W. T._ if he had call'd him out of his Name,
+which is indeed commonly thought an injury, but not the other, as ever I
+heard of before; yet he reckons it a terrible one to himself and his
+Family, which he tells us is _a good one_; I know not whether he means
+the _de Cros_'s, or the _Monks_. The first I must confess, I never heard
+of in _France_, but the other is indeed a great one abroad, and a good
+one at home. But whatever he would have us think of the Goodness of his
+Family, I will never believe, by what little understanding I have of
+Heraldry, that any _Gentleman_ would either write such a Letter, or
+_Translate_ it, tho it were only out of the common Respect that is due
+to the Memory of a Great King, whose Person Sir _W. T._ has so often
+represented, and in so high a Character.
+
+But to proceed; _That he was formerly a _French_ Monk_ (as the Memoirs
+call him), he confesses, and owns besides (tho with a great deal of
+ill-will) that _He changed his Frock for a Petticoat_: For, tho he
+denies it positively, _p. 11._ yet five Lines after, he has these
+words; _There was too great advantage to throw off my Frock for the
+Petticoat I have taken, not to do it; it is a Petticoat of a _Scotch_
+Stuff_, &c. I am glad it is of one so good as he mentions, and wish it
+were large enough to cover all his Shame: But whatever he says in the
+same Page, too malicious to be taken notice of here, of _Princesses, who
+have quitted the Veil for the Breeches_ (tho, in that it self, I believe
+he is mistaken) yet all this will never serve to wipe off the Ignominy
+of _Un Moin Defroquè_: Upon which I shall only add, That the Marriage of
+a Monk, when stripp'd of his Frock, is not thought likely to mend the
+matter: And I believe men of all Religions will agree in the Opinion,
+That if a Monk leaves his Frock, he ought to do it for a _Gown_, rather
+than for a _Petticoat_; and if he leaves the Orders of one Church,
+should in decency continue in the Orders of that Church to which he
+professes himself converted.
+
+As to his being a _Swedish Agent_, tho he is very angry the _Memoirs_
+should call him so; one cannot well discover by his Letter, whether he
+has a mind to grant it or no; however, he confesses, p. 13, 14. That
+_being Envoy from the Duke of _Holstein-Gottorp_, the Interests of his
+Master being inseperable from those of_ Sueden, _he found himself
+engaged to be very much concerned in the Interests of that Crown; and
+that Monsieur _Van Benninguen_ believed, He was intrusted with some
+Affairs from thence_. Which amounts to the very same with what the
+_Memoirs_ say, p. 335. That _he_ (de Cros) _had a Commission from the
+Court of _Sueden_ (or Credence at least) for a certain petty Agency in
+_England__. This he says, _Is very Dirty_. Alas for the cleanly
+Gentleman! one would think he was afraid of fouling his Fingers, but he
+had a great deal more need have taken care of his mouth. By the way, I
+cannot but admire at the insufferable Impudence of the _English Printer_
+or Translator, who hath in the Title Page named this man, _An
+Ambassador at the Treaty of _Nimeguen__; since in the several Accounts I
+have seen printed of that Treaty, there is not the least mention of such
+a Name any other way than in those _Memoirs_ he pretends to Answer. And
+'tis doubtless very agreeable to think, that a man who gives himself so
+_good_ a Character in his own Letter, should make so great a one in so
+August an Assembly as that is recorded to have been: And he himself in
+his whole Letter, arrogates no other besides that of Envoy Extraordinary
+from the Duke of _Holstein-Gottorp_ into _England_, who was a Prince at
+that time wholly dispossess'd of His Dominions.
+
+Another Passage in the Memoirs which he takes sadly to heart, is in the
+same _Pag. 335._ as follows: _At _London_ he had devoted himself wholly
+to Monsieur _Barillon_, the _French_ Ambassador, though pretending to
+pursue the Interests of _Sweden__: Against which he thus defends
+himself. First, Letter, _pag. 14_. He absolutely denies it; and says in
+the next, _He fell out with Monsieur _Barillon_ for three Months,
+because he diverted the King of _England_ from taking into his
+consideration the Interests of _Sweden__. And _pag. 16_. He says
+further; _That Monsieur _Barillon_ put all in practice to sift him to
+the bottom_ (concerning the _Swedish_ Affairs) _nevertheless all the
+Offers of this Ambassador proved ineffectual, and wrought nothing upon
+this man_ (meaning himself) _who if man would give credit to Sir _W. T._
+was entirely devoted to Monsieur _Barillon_, and yet Monsieur _Barillon_
+found him not to be corrupted or bribed_. All this would be an Account
+good enough of his Innocence in that point, if it had not the misfortune
+to be so ill plac'd. 'Tis indeed a good way back to the fifth Page of
+his Letter: And therefore what he says there, one may by the help of a
+little Charity, impute to the shortness of his Memory. These are his
+Words: _I have had the happiness during some years, to partake in the
+confidence of a Minister of State_, &c. And a little after; _Sir _W.
+T._ may well imagine that I did not ill improve this able Minister's
+Confidence, when he tells us, that I had wholly devoted my self to him_.
+But then how comes it, that in the same _15th_ page, where he twice
+endeavours to defend himself against this Imputation, he should make
+such a Blunder as to say, _But yet I must confess, that at such time as
+he (Monsieur _Barillon_) stickled for my Master's Interest, and that of
+_Sweden_, I was _entirely devoted_ to him_, &c.? After this; let the
+Reader judge, whether _de Cros_ does not confess at least as much, if
+not more in this Point, than the Memoirs charge him with: And it is to
+be observed from the same Book, that at the very time _de Cros_ speaks
+of, _France_ had taken into its Protection the Interests of _Sweden_,
+which it seem'd for some Months before to have very little regarded.
+
+But nothing touches him so nearly as the following Passage in the same
+_335th_ page of the Memoirs: _This man brought me a Pacquet from Court,
+commanding me to go immediately away to _Nimeguen__. Upon which, says
+he, _Pag. 16._ _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_. This
+passage has so fiercely gall'd him, that he is set a railing for six
+pages together; and the affront is, that he should be taken for an
+ordinary Courier, or Messenger. Had a dozen Wasps setled on his Tongue,
+they could not have swell'd or infus'd more Poison in it; he frets and
+foams at the mouth, and spatters so much Dirt on all sides, that it is
+not safe following him. In short, he takes it so heinously to be
+reckoned a Common Courier, that one could not have netled him more, had
+one call'd him a Post, or a Post-horse. I cannot imagine why any such
+words in the _Memoirs_, should put a man into so much passion: And for
+my part, both in this and all the rest, I see but one reason why he is
+angry; and that is, _Because he is angry_. However, against this
+grievous Imputation, he defends himself by this strong Argument; That
+_he was not sent over on purpose to deliver the Dispatch to Sir _W. T._
+but for something of greater importance, which he knows himself, and
+will not tell any body_. Wherein I think he acts very discreetly; and I
+do not doubt, but the best way to give any Reputation to his mighty
+Secrets, is to hinder them from taking Air: Tho had he done us the
+favour to discover but one of all those he boasts so much of, it would
+perhaps have been the most effectual way to raise our expectation of the
+rest. He would indeed make us believe, that in five Hours time he stay'd
+at the _Hague_, he had made some mighty Turn of State by his
+Negotiations there; which if there be any truth in it, we will grant him
+to have been not only an _Agent_, but a _Conjurer_; and from the strange
+Effect of his Conduct in that strange _Adventure of five hours_, we may
+hope one day to see a _Tragedy of that Name_, as there has been a
+_Comedy_ already. But till he thinks fit to make more important
+Discoveries, he will pardon our suspense in that modest Opinion he has
+of himself, That doubtless he should publish more just and solid
+_Memoirs_ than Sir _W. T._ if he would set about it. But I observe he
+desires _My Lord to take notice, that Sir _W. T._ confesses it was _De
+Cros_ procured this Dispatch_. I find when men are very angry, that
+Truth is the least thing they regard: For this is more than ever I could
+observe after reading those _Memoirs_ with more care and application
+than I am sure his good humour would ever permit him; and in _pag. 336._
+find these Words: _How this Dispatch by _De Cros_ was gain'd, or by
+whom, I will not pretend to determine_. Which _De Cros_ has very
+politickly thus altered, _Letter, pag. 18._ _I will not pretend to
+determine by what means, and how _De Cros_ obtained this Dispatch_. But
+_pag. 19._ he forgets himself again, and says. _As for me, tho I had the
+dispatch given me, yet he (Sir _W. T._) does not accuse me openly in
+this place of bearing any other part in this affair, than only as a
+Messenger intrusted with the Conveyance_. But I suppose he never looked
+farther than his malice would give him leave, which is usually very
+short-sighted.
+
+But, after all, 'tis not easily thought why he should lay it so much to
+heart to be called a Courier, when the whole account he gives of his
+great Negotiations (besides his being Envoy of the _Duke_ of
+_Holstein-Gottorp_) is, that he _was sent by _King Charles_ the Second
+into _Sweden_ and _Denmark_, to hasten the Passports for the Congress at
+_Nimeguen__: Which is all he tells us of his great Employments, and must
+be thought to have brought him into that intimacy and confidence he
+pretends with that great King, and for which he is pleased to make his
+Majesty such grateful Returns, and to form such a Character of him as he
+does in his Letter.
+
+For in the first place he tells us, _p. 5._ That _Mons. _Barillon_ was
+the _Primum Mobile_ of that King's conduct, which surprized all the
+World_. Which is to affirm more of him than any of his discontented
+Subjects, the pretended Patriots of that Age. For it is to assert openly
+and positively what they only pretended to suspect.
+
+Again, Soon after the King had made the Peace with _Holland_, _De Cros_
+brings his Majesty in, _p. 23._ speaking to him in these Words: _Tell
+the King my Brother_ (meaning the _French_ King) _that it is much
+against my mind, that I have made peace with these _Coquins_ the
+_Hollanders__. And then a little before the conclusion of the Peace at
+_Nimeguen_, he delivers the King speaking thus to Mons. _Shrenburn_
+concerning the _Hollanders_; _In a little time Monsieur, I will bring
+these _Coquins_ to Reason_. And in the same page he makes that Prince
+use the same Name to two great Ministers, Mons. _Barillon_, and Mons.
+_De Avaux_. The former whereof he pretends to have been the first Mover
+of all His Majesty's Councils. All which, if they be not absolute
+Untruths, as from his plentiful Gift that way, I am very much inclined
+to believe, yet are so far from shewing the _profound Respect_ the
+Writer pretends to, for the Memory of that Prince, that being put
+together, they make up this malicious Character; That a King of
+_England_ was guided in his Conduct by a _French_ Embassador; That he
+made and observed his Treaties with ill-meaning, or with ill-intentions;
+and that he treated his chiefest Confident (whom he makes to be Mons.
+_Barillon_) and another Embassador, with the greatest scorn and
+contempt.
+
+Besides, he brings this noble Prince upon the Stage, acting a mean piece
+of Dissimulation to cover his Confidence with so worthy a Person as
+Mons. _de Cros_; 'tis concerning his Dispatch so often mentioned into
+_Holland_; for being forc't to confess, that the King was angry with him
+at his return from thence; He plaisters it up with saying, p. 25. _If
+the late King of _England_ did not approve of my Conduct in the Affairs
+of _Nimeguen_, which in effect he declared in publick not to be pleased
+with, in which he plaid his part to admiration_, &c.
+
+But since we have seen the Character he gives of him as a King, let us
+observe how he Treats His Majesty as a _Mediator_, and how he Represents
+him balancing the Affairs of _Christendom_ then in his hands. First, _de
+Cros_ tells us, This Dispatch of his _was concerted with Monsieur
+_Barillon__: For tho he says, That that Ambassadour had no hand in the
+beginning of it, yet he owns him in the same place to _have part of it
+when it was concluding_; and that _Monsieur _de Ruvigny_ was dispatcht
+by the King with an Account of it to the _French Court_ the very same
+day that _de Cros_ was sent away for _Nimeguen__. And _p. 25._ He tells
+us further, That _Prince _Rupert_ askt him upon his Return, with a stern
+Countenance, If the Peace was concluded? and he answering in the
+Affirmative, the Prince cried out, O Dissimulation!_ And _p. 28._ he
+tells us, That the _Prince of _Orange (the Kings Nephew)_ writ thundring
+Letters against him; and all the Ministers of the Confederates called
+for Vengeance_, &c. Yet after all these Marks of something so very
+injurious to the _Allies_, and confidence to _France_, _The King _(says
+he, in the page last mentioned)_ laughs in his Sleeve at the Surprize,
+at the Sorrow, and Complaints of the Confederates_. Which is to give us
+just such a Character of a _Mediator_, as he did before of a _King_.
+
+I leave it to all mens Judgment, whether more villanous Slanders could
+have been broached abroad by the worst of this Prince's Enemies; and
+whether it be not a Scandal to our Country, that they should be
+translated and published in _English_. But since Monsieur _de Cros_ is
+so bold with the Sacred Memory of a Great King, for which he is yet so
+Impudent, as to profess _a most profound Respect_; What can a _Subject_
+expect, for whom he owns such a virulent Malice, and to whom he
+threatens such open Revenge.
+
+The same vein of truth and sincerity shines through the whole Letter,
+and the Author's Ingenuity is at the old pitch in what he pretends to
+rake out of the _Memoirs_ concerning several Persons in great
+Employments; as the D. of _Lauderdale_, the present E. of _Rochester_,
+Sir _Joseph Williamson_, Sir _Lionel Jenkins_, and Mons. _Beverning_.
+This _Conjurer_, in all he says of them, seems resolved to raise up the
+Spirits of the Dead, to joyn with those of the Living in the Quarrel
+with these _Memoirs_; and by such distorted Consequences, draws
+Characters of them, whereof there is no Apparition, but what he himself
+raises: So that the Characters he gives of these Persons by such false
+Deductions for Sir _W. T_'s, may justly be said to be his own.
+
+But from all I have observed in this Letter, I have wonder'd at nothing
+so much, as that impudent Vanity in the Writer, who endeavours to make
+himself and the World believe, that these _Memoirs_ were intended
+chiefly against him, whose very name is hardly twice mentioned after
+these two Pages in the whole Book, which does not pretend to give
+Characters of Persons, but only to relate things that were done, or
+words that were said; And the way to have made an answer with any
+Justice, had been to have laid Exceptions either against the one, or the
+other, whereof there is not one word in all this _Answer without any
+Answer_. However, so ridiculous is this mans Insolence, that he begins
+his Letter thus, _I have been informed of the Calumnies that Sir _W. T._
+hath caused to be printed against me_. And p. 7. _He set upon me first,
+he writes out of a Spirit of Revenge_, &c. The sensless Arrogance of
+which I cannot think of; but it remembers me of the Fly on the
+Chariot-wheel. For he would fain make it to have been a piece of Revenge
+against him, for having brought that Dispatch to the _Hague_; and yet he
+lays it much to heart, that in that Affair he should only take him for a
+_Messenger_. And this indeed is to make him a very reasonable person,
+and like a man, that when he receives a blow, grows angry with the Stone
+by which it is given. But by all I can observe in these _Memoirs_, I do
+not find any thing which bears the least resemblance of Anger or Spleen,
+much less of Revenge against Mons. _de Cros_; but so far from it, that
+in the very Passage he lays most to heart, of the Kings calling him
+_Rogue_, the _Memoirs_ mention particularly, that His Majesty said it
+_pleasantly_, which he himself cannot forbear observing in his Letter.
+
+Having thus long been considering how far he is provok'd, and how well
+he defends himself; 'tis time now to see how he attacks the Person whom
+he fancies his capital Enemy, and how the Play begins. 'Tis then in
+these words, _p. 1._ _I know very well that Sir _W. T._ is of great
+worth, and deserves well, and that he hath been a long time imployed,
+and that too upon important Occasions_. This is a piece indeed very much
+of a piece with all the rest. Now, in the name of wonder, what can be
+the meaning! I wot well enough, what he would be at in all the rest of
+his Letter; but the Sense, the Wit, or the Design of these sweet Lines,
+is not easy to devise. I confess, I see a good many Plays, and I believe
+I have read more, but never met before, so fair a Prologue to so foul a
+Farce. I have read somewhere of a Monster among the Ancients, with a
+Virgins face, and all beside, a Serpent; which holds exact Resemblance
+here, unless _de Cros_ should object against it, because Serpents have
+stings, and his Letter has none. However, if we will not grant him a
+_Conjurer_, as he would fain be thought, yet we cannot in Conscience
+deny him to be a _Jugler_, since the first thing he presents us with, is
+meer _slight of hand_; For he lays down a piece of _Gold_ upon the
+Table, and immediately, _Presto, 'tis gone_; and all we can see, is only
+half a dozen Pellets of _Dirt_. In short, I am not able to reach what he
+means by so whimsical a beginning, and of so different a piece from
+every word that follows; unless that being resolved to say nothing
+afterwards, which any body would believe, he thought fit to entertain us
+at first with three Lines he is sure no body doubts.
+
+But, to be serious. If Sir _W. T._ be _of great worth_, If _de Cros_
+either believes it himself, or would have any body else to do so, why is
+every word that follows, so contradictory to these? If he _deserves
+well_, why is he used so very ill? Does _de Cros_ understand what a man
+of _great worth_ means? I doubt he does not, either by himself, or by
+such Company, as so much good Language in all the rest of his Letter,
+would make us believe he keeps. Can a man of _great worth_, and that
+_deserves well_, be _Vain_, _Proud_, _Revengeful_, _Ungrateful to his
+Friend_, _False to his Master_, and impertinently _Ambitious_ in his
+very Retreat from all Publick Affairs? This is indeed a very worthy, and
+a very lively Character of a Man _of worth_. But is not such stuff as
+this, just a sputtering out, _Quicquid in Buccam venerit?_ Like hot
+Porridge, that burns his Tongue; tho 'tis pretty plain, that all his
+heat proceeds from the overflowing of his Gall within, and from nothing
+without. One would think he has very well practised the old Rule of
+_Calumniare fortiter_; yet he has lamentably fail'd of the consequence,
+_Aliquid inherebit_; for all the Dirt he endeavours to fling about,
+loves its own Element, and sticks close to his own Fingers. I never knew
+so unlucky a Gamester to throw so often, and to be always out! What, not
+one hit! I think the devil's in the Dice; however, lets throw again, but
+first we'll change Dice, and if the good Morals of this Man of great
+worth will not pass, let's try our luck at his Naturals. Sir _W. T._
+(says my Gamester) _has been often and long employ'd_; but he himself
+_did not know about what_; 'twas too, _upon very important occasions_,
+but he did _not know why_, unless, because, as _de Cros_ tells us, _The
+King had an Aversion for him, and never trusted him_, how often soever
+he imployed him. This great Ambassador, to say the truth, is a very
+_Bubble_, and has as little Wit in some parts of the Letter, as Honesty
+in the other. Good Lord, how this silly World is apt to be gull'd! What
+a Cheat, and what a Jilt this common Fame is! Who would have believed
+that the Author of the _Observations on the _Netherlands__, and of the
+charming _Miscellanea_, should be such a Cully, if _de Cros_ had not
+made the discovery? but sure he could never be Author of those Books;
+doubtless he either hired some body to write them for him, or else some
+honest Bookseller like his own, had got the Copies, and set Sir _W. T_'s
+name to them. _I would to God he had been so honest to set mine in the
+stead._ But now we have heard the Charge, pray make room for the
+Evidence: Sir _W. T._ is the _proudest Man_ in the World; and what are
+the proofs, or the Instances? Why, _de Cros_ says it, and that's
+Demonstration. He is ungrateful to his Friend, and why? Because _de
+Cros_ knows it. He is false to his Master, and the Reason's plain, _de
+Cros_ pretends to believe it. He is _the most revengeful of Men_, for he
+calls _de Cros_ by his _own Name_. He is of all men _the most
+Ambitious_, and _never did man desire more to have a hand in Affairs_.
+This is beyond dispute, for _de Cros_ knows his thoughts, and tells us
+not only what he says of others, but what he thinks of himself, and
+with equal truth. This is the _Conjurer_ again, and with a witness he
+tells us further, _p. 9._ of men _whose ruin Sir _W. T._ desires at the
+bottom of his heart_; where it is not to be questioned, but _de Cros_
+has been; and to put it beyond all doubt that he was so, he says, _p.
+13._ That _Sir _W. T._ came once to render _him_ a visit at _his_
+Lodging_, and that _Mons. _Olivencrants_ the _Swedish_ Ambassador, was
+then at _his_ House_, which gives me a scruple, that the visit might be
+meant to _him_, rather than to Mons. _de Cros_. However this is all the
+instances I find of his Acquaintance with a Person whose heart he
+pretends to know so well, and with whom by all the rest of his Letter, I
+should be apt to judge he was the least acquainted with, of any man in
+the World. But to close all these Generals before we come to
+particulars; he tells us, _p. 29._ he knows something of Sir _W. T._
+upon the Subject of what passed between him and my Lord _Arlington_,
+_that makes his hair stand on end_. Alas, the poor Gentleman's in an
+Agony! Bless us all from sprights! what a puny Conjurer is this! to
+raise a Spirit that scares no body else, and run into a hole for fear of
+it himself: He has formed so terrible an Image of Sir _W. T._ in his own
+little working Noddle, that he knows not were he is, nor what he does,
+but is all in a maze. However, this I am certain, that no man alive who
+has read the rest of _de Cros_'s Letter, but will allow him to be one,
+that if he knew any thing ill of Sir _W. T._ would at least be sure not
+to tell it; we have his own word for it, p. 7. _My design is not at all,
+my Lord, to write you a Letter full of Invectives against Sir _W. T.__
+And in another place, _That _(says he)_ would not be like a Gentleman_.
+
+But yet to give him his due, and as he says, p. 7. _To let everybody see
+_he_ has means in _his_ hands to be revenged_; there is one point, and
+that alone, where he brings his Proof, lays downs his Instance, and that
+out of the _Memoirs_ themselves; 'tis designed undeniably to convince
+the World of Sir _W. T_'s Vanity, of which he could give _my Lord_ many
+instances, but at present contents himself with one, and 'tis a thumping
+one. 'Tis the following Period, which I shall quote out of the
+_Memoirs_, a little more faithfully than he does in his Letter, which I
+was so curious to observe, by thinking the word [_Clutches_] to be no
+part of Sir _W. T_'s stile, and found he had taken a great deal of
+pains, to wrest it as much as he could to his turn. It runs thus, _Mem._
+p. 30. _This I suppose gave some occasion for my being again designed
+for this Ambassy, who was thought to have some credit with _Spain_ as
+well as _Holland_, from the Negotiations I had formerly run through, at
+the _Hague_, _Brussels_, and _Aix la Chapelle_, by which the remaining
+part of _Flanders_ had been saved out of the hands of _France_ in the
+year 1668._ Now for my own part, I must confess my self so giddy a
+Reader, and of so much inadvertency, that when I read that Passage, I
+took it for a singular piece of Modesty, since the Author gives for a
+Reason, why the King chose him for his second Ambassy in _Holland_,
+because he had been formerly employed in those Countries, and not for
+any Personal Merit in himself; but _de Cros_ is so great a Stranger to
+Modesty, that we cannot blame him for not knowing it when he meets it;
+and since he has no other Accusations of this kind, I must profess, I
+can discover nothing of Vanity in the whole _Series_ of all those
+Relations, nor can reckon for such, the Author's not avoiding to speak
+of himself any more than of other Persons (when it came in his way) who
+had so great and so continual a part in the whole Course of that Story.
+In his other Works this Author I am sure makes little mention enough of
+himself; and it were to be wisht that Persons so much employ'd in
+publick Business, would tell all their own Parts as well others Mens,
+and as nakedly as he seems to do in these _Memoirs_.
+
+But the reason _de Cros_ gives us, why he would have the World believe
+him in all he says against Sir _W. T._ is, Because he is first attackt,
+and thereupon in great Passion and Rage, which will pass for an
+admirable Argument, that he designs to speak nothing but truth, and for
+a very cunning way of being believed; tho some men perhaps may think,
+that whatever is said in Passion, is but just so much of _nothing to the
+purpose_, and that it commonly makes a man in what he says or does, not
+only as peevish as a Wasp, but as blind as a Beetle. But if he will
+believe right or wrong, why will not he believe in his turn? And why is
+not he contented to _Give_ as well as to _Take_? He will not allow that
+Sir _W. T._ might several times have been Secretary of State, when Mr.
+_Montague_, and Mr. _Sydney_, who are named (in _Memoirs p._) to have
+been set on him by the Lord _Arlington_ at that time to persuade him to
+accept it, are still alive, as well as my Lord Treasurer, who is
+mentioned, _Mem. p. 273._ to have written to him by His Majesty's
+Command to come over and enter on the Secretaries Office. And _p. 385._
+'tis further added, That Sir _W. T._ received the _King's own Orders to
+come immediately over, and enter upon that Office, and to acquaint the
+Prince and States with that Resolution_; which must of course have come
+to him through my Lord _Sunderland_'s hand, who _Mem. p. 387._ is said
+to have been brought into Sir _Joseph Williamson_'s place, and his
+Lordship being likewise still alive, can easily tell, whether this be
+true or no. Therefore, why does not _de Cros_ himself, or some Friend
+for him (if he has any) enquire into the truth of these Passages which
+are told so positively, and wherein so many parties concern'd are still
+alive, tho most of them with other Titles. And indeed, tho it may be ill
+for Sir _W. T_'s private Satisfaction, that these _Memoirs_ were printed
+against his Consent, and during his Life, which it appears was never
+intended; yet nothing could defend the Truth of them so much, as that so
+many Persons are yet alive, who had so great a part in all those Affairs
+there related, who are the best and most competent Judges of the Truth;
+and I never heard that any of them have yet contradicted the least part.
+But however, since the _Monk_ has got into the _Infallible Chair_, he
+must be believed, there is no help, and we must like the _Welsh-man_,
+_Take her own word for it_. And so let him go away with all those
+apposite and choice Epithets he has given of this _most worthy_ and
+_well-deserving_ person, without where, or when, or why, or wherefore;
+For I am sure there is no way of replying to them; and he that would set
+about it, might as well resolve to write an Answer to a Leaf in
+_Textor_'s Epithets.
+
+And thus I have with much ado rid my hands of a great part of _De
+Cros_'s Rubbish, as far as it endeavours to bespatter Sir _W. T._ in his
+Morals and Intellectuals. It remains now I should observe a little what
+he says concerning his Fortunes, which seems to turn upon these two
+rusty Hinges, that make as ill a noise as all the rest; the obscurity
+from whence he was raised to all those great Employments, and his
+disgrace upon leaving them, which _De Cros_ says was immediately after
+his Return from _Nimeguen_.
+
+For my own part I must confess I am neither old enough, nor have had
+Conversation in Courts, and with Publick Affairs, to give an account how
+Sir _W. T._ came into Business, or how he went out, any further than I
+could gather from Writings and Transactions which are publick and known
+to every body; or by particular enquiries from some Friends and
+Acquaintance of my own; and it has happened, that some of them have long
+known so much of that Family, as to assure me it is a very Ancient one:
+That Sir _W. T._ was born of a very Honourable Father, who was for many
+years of the Privy Council in _Ireland_ to King _Charles_ the First, and
+King _Charles_ the Second, and was long possessed of one of the best
+Offices in that Kingdom, both for Honour and Profit; as likewise in his
+time a Member of several Parliaments in _England_: That his two younger
+Brothers are known to have lived always with plentiful Fortunes, and in
+much esteem: So that this Gentleman alone seems to have been born under
+the unluckiest Planet in the world, tho Heir to his Father's Fortune,
+and Successor to his Office, which was so considerable; yet he only of
+all his Family, was _in Obscurity_, and _lay in the Dust_ (for so the
+_French_ Letter has it) till my Lord _Arlington_ raised him out of both;
+whose beams it seems were so refulgent, as to make him shine at that
+distance his Foreign Employments carried him to. My Friends have
+likewise assured me from their own remembrance and knowledge, that Sir
+_W. T._ shined as much in a Parliament of _Ireland_ soon after the
+King's Restoration, as _De Cros_ says he shined long in his Employments
+abroad; and this was several years before he came into any Foreign
+Employments. They told me, likewise that he was very easy in his
+Fortune, not only by what he had from his _Father_, but from his _Lady_,
+to whom God be thanked (and it is very happy for her Ladyship that) _De
+Cros_ says, he has no Quarrel. By all which, and the many Employments he
+since passed through, and of which in one of his Essays he says, he
+_never sought any_; in my weak conception I should think he was a
+person, that by the Circumstances of his Humour and his Fortune, needed
+the Court less than the Court needed him.
+
+As to his going out from Publick Employments, which _De Cros_ tells us
+was upon _the King's being so ill satisfied with his Conduct and
+Management of Affairs abroad, particularly those at _Nimeguen__; that
+_he slighted him upon his return from thence, and made very little use
+of him_. I can give no other Account besides what I find of the Time and
+the manner in the _Epistle_ before the _Memoirs_; only I find, by
+comparing the Date of his Return from _Nimeguen_, with that of King
+_Charles_'s Declaration upon his dissolution of the old Council, and
+selecting a new one, that Sir _W. T._ was a Member of that new and
+select Council; and it was the Common Town-talk at that time, that this
+Declaration was writ by him, and that he was in his Majesty's Chief
+Confidence upon that surprising Resolution, which was received with such
+Applauses, Bonfires, and other expressions of Joy in the City. Besides
+all this, having had some acquaintance among _Spanish_ Merchants in
+Town, I came to know, that several of them about two years after, had
+recourse to Sir _W. T._ upon his being then declared Ambassador
+Extraordinary to the Crown of _Spain_, by the King at Council, whereof
+he himself was then a Member. All which laid together, does most
+abundantly verifie what _De Cros_ says of his being disgraced upon his
+return from _Nimeguen_. But the best account of all these Passages we
+must expect whenever he will think fit to publish the first and third
+part of the _Memoirs_, which are mentioned at the beginning and end of
+those the world has seen already. In the mean time, what little has
+happened to fall in the way of my knowledge or enquiries, may be enough
+to discover the impudent Forgery of this false Coyner, who pretends to
+counterfeit all sorts of Metals, but is so wretched a bungler, and
+performs it so grosly, that not one of them will pass. 'Twas for this
+Reason, I suppose, that the _French_ Edition of his Letter pretends to
+have been printed at _Cologne_, which I have long observed to be the
+Common Forge, or at least the Common Form of Paltry, Scurrilous Libels,
+printed in that Language; and which no Printer or Bookseller abroad dare
+set their Names to. This I cannot but mention for the Credit and
+Reputation of his honest Stationer at the _Mitre_, who I believe is the
+only Stationer in _England_ would have had the ingenuity to set the
+_Mitre_ on this _Monk_'s Head.
+
+The last precious piece of his Malice I shall take notice of, is, That
+he grudges Sir _W. T._ even the Honour of his Retreat from Publick
+Affairs, by which perhaps he has been more distinguished, than by his
+greatest Employments: But this _De Cros_ cannot allow him: No, saye he,
+_p. 8._ _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_. Alas! what a sad Fate that man falls under, that dares
+incur the displeasure of Mons. _De Cros_? or who can tell what will
+become of him? He must neither live at Court, nor at his own House, in
+publick Business, nor out of it; In Town, nor in Country: where shall
+we find a place for him? I know none but the middle Region of the Air:
+But, _It was not his love for his own Ease_, &c. _that made him decline
+his Employments_. Why? whoever informed this Conjurer it was? I am sure
+the _Memoirs_ say no such thing, but in the last Page gives us a quite
+different account; where, telling his Reasons why he excused himself, at
+his return from _Nimeguen_, from entring upon the Secretaries Office,
+are these Words: _I that never had any thing so much at heart as the
+union of my Country, which I thought the only way to its greatness and
+felicity was very unwilling to have any part in the divisions of it_.
+And towards the end: _After almost two years unsuccessful endeavours at
+some Union, or at least some allay of the Heats and Distempers between
+the King and his Parliament, I took the Resolution of having no more to
+do with Affairs of State_. Which Resolution it seems was taken about the
+beginning of the Year 1681. when he sent the King word he _would pass
+the remainder of his life like as good a private Subject as any he had_,
+&c. as is to be seen in the Epistle. Yet for all this Mons. _De Cros_,
+who knows his thoughts better than himself, or than his Actions can
+inform us, says, _Never did man desire more to have a hand in Affairs_.
+Why here he shews us the silly _Bubble_ again, and the wise way he takes
+to fulfil this impatient Desire; 'Tis by going to his House in the
+Country, where he stays five years, as he tells us in one of his Essays,
+without so much as ever seeing the Town: and since (as I am inform'd) to
+avoid so much Resort at that smaller distance from the City, he goes to
+another of his Houses of a much greater in the Country; which was an
+admirable wise Contrivance to satisfie his Longings to get again into
+Business: Truly I my self could have helpt him to a Better: For could he
+not like other men of such a craving Kidney, have still buzzed about the
+Court, knocked at every dore there, and when one was deaf and would not
+open, go to another; and at the worst have grown so troublesome, that
+some body would at last bring him into Employment, tho it were but to
+be rid of him? Or, if this Contrivance had failed, he might have herded
+among the Factious and Discontented about the Town; gone to the
+Coffee-houses, railed at the Ministers, and quarrelled with the
+Government, till they would be glad to have hired him at the expence of
+an Employment to hold his Tongue: And I am sure if he talks as well as
+he writes, he might very well have gone this way to work, and with as
+much likelihood to succeed as _Others have done, or pretend to do_. Tho
+a Common Reader would be apt to think the Author of these _Memoirs_
+might have found some other ways, either of preserving himself in
+Business, or of getting in when he was out; at least in so easy a Court
+as that of King _Charles_ the Second's is taken to have been. Or if
+these Endeavours had miscarried, he might yet have made some shift or
+other to have obtained his Desire upon such a Revolution as has since
+happened; and he is very much wronged by the common Voice of the Town,
+if he has not found it as hard to excuse himself from entring into
+Publick Employments in this Reign, as in that of the late King
+_Charles_.
+
+For my own part, I can profess with the greatest Truth in the world,
+That before this Libel of _De Cros_, I have never met with in all my
+Conversation and Reading, with the least Reproach from any man against
+Sir _W. T._ except it be in one point; Of his having made too rashly, or
+kept too obstinately, his Resolution, Never to enter again into Publick
+Employments; especially since he lives in an Age where such persons as
+he appears to be by his Writings, might be of so uncommon use and
+Advantage to his Country: This I cannot but own, I have often heard
+said, and that somewhat warmly, to his charge, and must leave it to
+himself to clear it as he can. But however, _De Cros_ it seems knows his
+thought best, and must be believed in all he says upon this Point, as
+well as the rest: And I only wish, since the Spark is so good at
+finding out what other men think, that he would take the pains to learn
+for his comfort what all men think of him: One thing I am sure is, that
+with all the Bloaches of his dirty Pencil, he has daub'd up a Picture of
+Sir _W. T._ which has top-fil'd the measure of all Forgery; _Sed Vetitum
+nihil est scheleri_, and which is as true and like the Original, as a
+man would make of this Dauber, if he should say, _De Cros_ were a very
+honest, worthy, well-natur'd, well-bred, fair-spoken, plain-dealing,
+ingenious Writer; of excellent Morals, wondrous Wit, and exact Truth.
+
+And now I have done with him, I can hardly answer it to my self why I
+ever began, or why I went about to foul my fingers with such a Subject:
+I am sure nothing could have forced me but an irresistible Impulse, and
+some natural love I bear to Vertue, to Learning, and to Truth; of all
+which I find so great a share in this Honourable person's Writings,
+which I have read so often, and with so much pleasure; and from which I
+cannot but confess to have learnt more than from all other Books I have
+read in my life; which I say after much greater and better Readers than
+my self, and yet I have been a great Porer too. All this would not
+suffer me to let _De Cros_'s Libel pass without these Reflections; for
+as to any regular Reply, it could no more be made to this, than to a
+Paper that comes with a very fair Superscription, and subscribed by some
+_Worshipful Name_, but had nothing clear through, besides long unsightly
+Scrawls and foul Blots with a Pen; and so intended for some such flam as
+your Twelve-Penny Writers use to gull those idle people with, that buy
+up all Pamphlets they meet: And since I have confess'd my self such a
+Customer, 'tis but justice I should be laughed at in my turn.
+
+After all I have writ upon this Subject, I cannot but think my Ink has
+been too white all this time; however, I have Gall enough about me to
+make it blacker at another, if ever the fit of Scribling should take me
+again; which may very well be, when I meet with another Author of so
+little _Wit_, so little _Memory_, and so little _Truth_ as _De Cros_.
+
+    _----Melius non tangere, Clamo,
+        Flebit, & insignis tota cantabitur Urbe._
+
+As to the candid Translator, I cannot forbear doing him the Justice to
+give him that part which he deserves, and belongs to him in all I said
+of _De Cros_, for his share in the Letter, by so false, and so malicious
+a Translation; nor can refuse him my approbation for a worthy Translator
+to so worthy an Author; wherein he has taken the same pains a man would
+do in smutting over a Chimny-Sweeper, or blacking over a Crier of
+Smalcoal. Which is all I shall say of him.
+
+But, for the _Advertiser_, as his Stile is much fairer, and consists
+mostly of Criticisms, so he will deserve no other than very fair and
+critical Reflections. Yet I cannot but wonder, that in the first part of
+his Advertisement, he should go about to defend the _severe or indecent
+Language_ (as he calls it) in _De Cros_'s Letter: Which sure, nothing
+could do towards a person who has so often represented a great King,
+whatever his own Merits or Demerits might have been. I am also something
+at a loss what he should mean by slandering _De Cros_ with such a Title
+as that of, _The Ingenious Author of the foregoing Letter_. For
+doubtless if the Man has any Wit, I may say of it as one did of a
+Gentleman's Courage, which another had much commended; That _he might
+have courage for ought he knew, but he had as live be damn'd as shew
+it_.
+
+The rest of his gentle _Advertisement_ consists, (as he pleases to call
+it) of _the Sentiments of the Criticks upon these Memoirs when they
+first came out_.
+
+The first whereof is, That _the Stile was too luscious and affected_. I
+confess I am not acquainted with that Term of _a Luscious Stile_, and
+cannot easily stumble upon what it means, unless it be to say, That the
+Bride is too fair, or the Grapes are too sweet. But 'tis yet harder for
+my poor Conception to find out how a Stile can be both _Luscious_ and
+_Affected_; Which latter I should have otherwise mistook for a Quality
+that had ever given a harshness to any Stile, that would not be very
+consistent with _Luscious_: And _Tacitus_ has not escaped the Imputation
+of being both harsh and _Affected_, by several _Criticks_. I am afraid
+the Gentleman's Mouth might have been a little out of taste by reading
+these _Memoirs_; and _that_ might possibly have proceeded from some
+cholerick Humour redundant in his Stomach; which I the rather suspect
+from these words in the Beginning of his Advertisement; _As nothing more
+sensibly touches _US_, than to have our Reputation_, &c. which seem to
+insinuate, that he took himself for one of the Persons he thought
+offended by them, and _treated with too much Freedom, and too little
+Ceremony_; as he afterwards speaks of others. But if Sir _W. T_'s Stile
+be faulty, I have nothing to say; only desire, That some of the
+_Criticks_ the _Advertiser_ speaks of, will be so kind to mend it when
+they write next, whereby I think they will do a very great Honour to our
+Language. I am only sorry for those poor Booksellers who have so rashly
+undertaken the printing of his several Works, and wish they may not be
+undone after the Judgment of these severe _Criticks_ upon them. Yet to
+give them a little comfort, I must needs take notice, that all men are
+not of the same nice Palat, neither at home nor abroad: For Monsieur
+_Wiquefort_ concludes his _Memoirs of Ambassadors_, with regretting that
+there had been so few Accounts given by any of them of Foreign
+Countries; and that there were like to be fewer hereafter; _Because
+Monsieur _Temple_ is inimitable in what he has written of the_ United
+Netherlands. And among many Books and Pamphlets that mention his Works,
+I have yet seen none that does it without great Value and Approbation. I
+am sure in all the _French_ Editions of his several Works (which have
+had the luck to be still Translated into several Languages as they came
+out) the Epistles and Prefaces prefixed before them, are full of the
+greatest Honour and Applause that can be given to Writings, which pass
+so ill with the _Criticks_, this Advertiser tells us of at home; so that
+'tis possible some of these _Memoirs_ may yet go off, which I suppose
+was the chief thing intended by him that publisht them.
+
+However, let such Statesmen as _de Cros_; or such _Criticks_ as our
+_Advertiser_, or Malice and Detraction it self, say what they will of
+the _Memoirs_; I dare answer for all Scholars and Lovers of Learning,
+that they shall pay the Honour and Esteem which is, and will be ever
+justly due to the _Miscellanea_; and shall not only find what is
+pleasing and instructing, but also something that is new and surprizing
+whenever they read them, let this Author's Stile be as _Luscious_ and
+_Affected_ as it will; which is all I need say for the poor Bookseller's
+sake.
+
+The second Criticism the Advertiser mentions, is upon the Digressions,
+tho he is so good to confess himself not of their Opinion who find fault
+with them. But I wish he had made a fairer Quotation in a Line or two
+out of one of them, by which he would seem to make Sir _W. T._ say, That
+_Prince _Maurice_'s Parrot_ spoke, and askt, and answered common
+Questions like a reasonable Creature: Tho indeed he only says, That his
+_curiosity made _him_ enquire from the first hand about such a common
+Story, Of a Parrot that spoke_, &c.
+
+For my self, I must needs say, that that Digression gave me not only
+some Entertainment when I read it, but a good deal of thought since; and
+the more, because I remember one of the _Athenian Mercuries_, in Answer
+to a Question sent them upon this very Story, seem'd to allow the thing
+possible. But after all my rambling thoughts upon that Subject, I must
+leave it to better Reasoners than my self to determine, whether Speech
+and Reason are so individual, that whatever Creature has any share in
+the one, must be allow'd to partake of the other. However it be, the
+Letter I have been lately observing, has throughly convinc'd me, that
+whether a Man may _Speak_ or no, at least he may _Write_ without
+_Reason_. But this I am sure is a Digression in me, whatever it was in
+the Author of the _Memoirs_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The last _Criticism_ the _Advertiser_ mentions, is, That _in these
+_Memoirs_ there are several Persons, Eminent both for their Station and
+Quality, and some of them still alive, treated with so much Freedom, and
+so little Ceremony_. This in my slender Judgment, appears a more
+extraordinary Objection, than the other two. For I had ever imagined,
+that the very _Ratio formalis_ of a good History, or Memoirs, had been
+the _Truth_ of them, which it is impossible should ever appear without
+_great Freedom_, and _little Ceremony_, either to the Persons they
+represent, or concerning the Actions they relate. And this in my
+Opinion, gives the great and general Esteem that is deservedly put upon
+the Memoirs of _Philip de Comines_, whose Stile seems very mean and
+vulgar, but his _Freedom_ great, and _Ceremony_ very little, either with
+those two Great Princes that were his Masters, or in any Account he
+gives of Actions, or of Persons, tho many of these were probably alive
+at the time of Writing or Publishing these _Memoirs_. But in truth since
+his time, his Method has been very little pursued, and more is the pity,
+since it has made so much room, and so unworthily, for the fulsome
+Flatteries, and nauseous Panegyricks of so many Books or Prefaces as
+have over-run the Press in our Age; which not only endeavour to put
+Shams and Cheats upon Mankind; but are, I doubt, of great Mischief to
+the Interests and Concernments of those Countries where they grow. For
+let the _Criticks_ say what they please against writing Story with _too
+much Freedom_, and _too little Ceremony_, I am a little disposed to
+believe, That if there were more such _Authors_, there would not be so
+many such _Actors_, as have been so often seen upon the Publick Stages
+of the World; who, like Rooks when they are gotten to the Top-branches
+of great Trees, think only of building their own Nests as high as they
+can, and feathering them as well as they can, without any care how the
+Tree thrives under them, or whether by their Muting and Fluttering
+about, they spoil the Branches and Leaves of that Tree it self where
+they were bred, or found shelter. Peradventure such Actors would not
+have plaid such Parts upon the Stage, if they had not trusted to the
+Disguises and Masks they were in, or had suspected they would be pull'd
+off by some _plain, rough hand_, either while the Play lasts, or as soon
+as 'tis ended. For men are seldom so harden'd, as to grow totally
+careless of their Names, and their Memories, after they are dead, tho
+they may hope to escape while they are alive.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For these and some other such trivial Reasons, I must profess, I cannot
+joyn heartily with the _Criticks_ in this last Objection; but shall be
+very glad to joyn with the Advertiser in believing, or at least in
+wishing, that Sir _W. T._ would be prevailed with by the Letter, or this
+Advertisement, to take some notice himself either of the one, or the
+other, which might possibly make the Press some amends for this Scribble
+of mine; at least it would me, who should think my self very well
+rewarded by it. For whatever Passion _de Cros_, or the _Advertiser_, or
+any of those US's he speaks of in the beginning of his short Paper, may
+have against the Author, I shall ever have as much Passion for his
+Writings. And as for this of my own, I pretend to no more, than to be
+forgiven by him and other Men, because it is my first Essay, and for
+ought I yet know, it may be my last.
+
+
+
+
+    REFLECTIONS
+
+    UPON AN
+
+    ANSWER
+
+    TO THE
+
+    Letter from Mons. _De Cros_.
+
+    Pretended to be written by the Author
+    of the _Memoirs_.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    By a Lover of Truth.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    _LONDON:_
+
+    Printed for _Richard Baldwin_, near the
+    _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_. 1693.
+
+
+
+
+    REFLECTIONS _upon an Answer to the Letter from Monsieur _De
+    Cros_. Pretended to be written by the Author of the _Memoirs_,
+    &c._
+
+WHEN the foregoing Papers were finished, and just ready for the Press, I
+was surprized to hear that Sir _W. T._ himself had thought fit (contrary
+to what I had conjectured in the first pages of those) to take publick
+notice of Mons _De Cros_'s Letter; That it was now just come out, and
+crying about the Streets: Tho I had then several surmises that it might
+be some Imposture, yet one could not well be more amazed than I was, at
+a piece of News I had so little expected, and the contrary of which I
+thought I had so well convinced both the world, and my self. Whatever I
+expected from it, I was eager enough to get it, and to read it over: My
+suspicion increased sufficiently, when I had not gone above ten Lines;
+and when I had perused it, I found my self as much disappointed, as I
+was by _De Cros_'s Letter; being throughly convinced it was a
+Counterfeit, (tho a witty one, and perhaps an innocent one too.) For
+this I found several undeniable Reasons, which I suppose any thinking
+Reader could not but observe as well as I.
+
+And first, I took notice of the _Exordium_ as a little too common and
+thredbare for that Author; and imagined a worse Writer might have been
+hard put to it, not to have found a better than, The _importunity of his
+Friends_ for writing in his own defence. Besides, I thought the disguise
+of it was something mean, and could not conceive why, if that Author had
+a mind to own it, he should chuse to do it in the _Third Person_,
+rather than the _First_.
+
+Another Reason is; That this Answerer makes him publickly own the
+_Memoirs_, which I could never hear he has yet done. Nay farther; He
+makes Him defend them in all parts; which I doubt, if he had owned them,
+he would not do it any further than the Truth; since for the rest, as
+the Publisher of them observes, they are in many places imperfect, and
+uncorrect, by having never been reviewed; and so may be justly liable to
+some Exceptions of that kind: And the _Gallicisms_ upon which _De
+Cros_'s _Advertiser_ says, the _Criticks_ have been so severe, may
+easily discover they were not designed for the Publick in that Dress
+they have appeared. Now, tho this Pretended Answerer endeavours to
+imitate Sir _W. T._ in this Point, as well as in the use of several
+other Words which are found in the _Memoirs_, and he imagines a little
+particular; yet he has made so great a discovery in several others, that
+by consisting of two such different pieces, the whole lies too open to
+deceive. For altho such words as _Blunder_, _Hans-en Kelder_, _A man of
+such a Kidney_ with some others, may well enough become such a Scribler
+as I am, yet they are very unlike that Author's Expressions, and below
+his Stile.
+
+Another ground I have to conclude this Answer for a Counterfeit, is for
+some Quotations which I shall never suspect such a Writer as Sir _W. T._
+would have made use of. As first, that poor Line, _Canes qui latrant_,
+&c. which looks like an _English_ Proverb translated into very bald
+_Latin_. Then (to mention no more of them) another Quotation as unlike
+as the first, from Mr. _Samuel Johnson_, which agrees very little with
+that Author's way, who is observed in all he writes, to be very tender
+in medling with controverted Points of State and Government.
+
+Besides, This whole Pamphlet, tho it must be confess'd to be ingenious,
+and written with a great deal of Wit, yet that very strain of _Witting_
+it so much, and running things into Ridicule, makes it look very
+different from any thing we have yet seen of Sir _W. T_'s Writings: And
+I observe in several places of the _Miscellanea_, this very vein is
+taken notice of for a thing of _pernicious Consequence to Learning and
+good Manners_; so that if Sir _W. T._ be really possessed of such a
+Talent, he keeps it very much to himself, and must be allowed for the
+best Disguiser of it in the World, through all he has published; which
+would make his Readers think that he intended to pass rather for a Wise
+and Good Man, than for a Witty.
+
+Another sufficient Reason for me to reject this Answer, is, That it
+makes Sir _W. T._ grant in some kind, the severest of _de Cros_'s
+unreasonable Slanders, of _failing in his Fidelity to his Master_; and
+to defend himself in it, by excusing it from Examples of that kind;
+which in my Opinion, would be to lay himself needlesly open to Censures,
+that I suppose, he has not deserved; and would shew such a want of
+Judgment in him, as I shall not be apt to believe from any other
+Writings but his own, and better attested than I find it here.
+
+I shall add to all these, what I observed in an Advertisement before the
+First Part of the _Miscellanea_, where the Bookseller tells the Reader
+from the Author, that thenceforth he would never Publish any thing
+without putting his Name to it, which not finding before this Pamphlet,
+was another Reason to conclude it a supposititious Piece. All which put
+together, makes me believe Sir _W. T._ was no more the Author of this
+Answer, than of _Tully_'s _Offices_.
+
+When I had satisfied my self in this Point, it was not easy for me to
+find out what the Writer of this Answer should mean by taking so much
+pains to make it pass for Sir _W. T_'s; which seems to me a very new way
+of Writing; and whereof I cannot give any other instance besides this,
+from what has occured in my Reading or Conversation. I know very well,
+that several Ancient Pieces which go under great Author's Names, are
+found by the Learned Criticks of these latter Ages, to have been
+spurious; yet they were never born till long after the Death of the
+supposed Fathers. I know likewise, that there have been several Laws
+made in _France_; one, I am sure, in this present Century, against the
+Printing any Books, under severe Penalties, without setting the Author's
+Name to them, and their known Name, because some having two Names, one
+by which they were commonly called, tho the other perhaps were the
+particular Name of their Family; some Persons disguised their Writings
+under the Name that was little known, tho it might be their own: To so
+nice and cautious Cares the Laws there thought fit to descend upon this
+matter. I remember there was an Ingenious Discourse Printed within these
+few years in _France_, upon the Custom of using borrowed or disguised
+Names in the Publishing of Books: But in the Censures and Complaints
+that Author makes of this ill Custom, I did not take notice of any one
+Example he mentions, further than of such Books as had been published
+under Names of Persons dead, or else under such as were wholly
+fictitious, and made at their own pleasures; Which last has peradventure
+appear'd in most Ages and Countries where Printing has been used, but
+toucht no Man farther than a Satyr of _Don Quixot_, or _Francion_, or
+any such like. But I have never observed, nor heard of any Example of
+this kind besides this Answer, where the Author, whose Name was
+borrowed, was alive, and in the same Kingdom, and so avowedly with the
+Name of a known Bookseller in the Title-page.
+
+Whatever the intention may have been in the Writer, whether wholly
+innocent, or a little interessed to give Vogue to his Pamphlet, or in
+considering the Bookseller's profit by making it pass for an Author's,
+whose Name he knew would _help it off the_ better; yet I cannot but
+apprehend the Example of it ill, and the Consequences of it may be
+worse, if it should fall into Common practice; for by this way of
+Writing and Publishing either Books or Pamphlets, any Man may be made a
+publick Defamer of himself at another Man's pleasure, and not only _so_,
+but to accuse himself of any Crime which the Rigour of our Laws requires
+no man to do. As far as my Thoughts will reach, I do not conceive why it
+should not be as bad to counterfeit a Book as a Bond; and to wrong a Man
+in his Reputation, as great an Injury, as to cheat him of his Money:
+This must be the reason why Slander and Scandal are as sufficient a
+ground to maintain an Action in Law, as Damage and Battery: Nothing is
+an injury any farther than it is taken, and hurts a Man more or less, as
+he is sensible of it. Now, tho it may be true, that in every Age there
+may be more than _Nine Worthies_ who put a greater value on their Money
+than their Honour, yet there may be every where, and at all times, some
+_silly Foplings_, who do quite the contrary; and I know no reason, why
+they should not pretend to be safe in the Possessions they most value,
+as well as the others; nor why the Law should not take some care of such
+poor Innocents. Nor further, can I find out why a _Stationer_ should not
+be punisht for _Forgery_, as well as a _Notary_ or _Scrivener_ may be.
+Whether I am too serious or no, upon a Subject that may appear trivial
+at first sight, or whether such a Trifle be worth any legal Provisions
+against it, I am sure, _Ha Nugæ seria ducunt in Mala_; and that 'tis at
+least an _Edg-tool_ which ought not to be plaid with.
+
+I could never well comprehend the true reason, why it should be such a
+disgrace to be a _Cuckold_, or why one Person should suffer for
+another's fault, how nearly soever related to him: But I can very easily
+apprehend the Injury of it, which is, that one Man should be out upon
+fathering another Man's Children, or at the best should be in danger of
+it; and this seems to be meant by the word, which at first was
+intended, that a Man was _Cuckoo'd_, that is, dealt with as _Cuckoos_
+are said to do with other Birds, by laying their Eggs in their Nests,
+and thereby making them hatch and bring up young Ones that are none of
+their own, (for this is the best Etymology I can find out for a word so
+commonly used). Now, the same Injury may be as sensible in what concerns
+the Children of the Brain (as Books have been call'd) which may be as
+lawful and as natural Issues, and some Parents may be as fond of them,
+and as much concerned about them. And tho it pass for no Crime for
+People to expose their Children when they have no mind to own them, or
+think they are not able to maintain them, and they may be content any
+body else should father them that will; yet this is an Office no body
+would be forc'd upon undertaking, how little soever it may cost them,
+and how innocently soever it may have been intended.
+
+I could not forbear to make this Reflection upon this Subject, if it
+were for nothing else but to make good my Profession in the Title-page,
+of being _A Lover of Truth_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_FINIS._
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's notes
+
+  Page 11
+  "forgets himself again, and says." Possible error for
+  "forgets himself again, and says,". No change made.
+
+  Page 20
+  "(in _Memoirs p._)" page number is missing in the original.
+
+  Page 25
+  "Never to enter again into Publick Employments"
+  changed from "Pulick".
+
+  Page 29
+  "whenever they read them," comma added.
+
+  Page 36
+  "Hans-en Kelder" is unclear in the original image.
+  The phrase means "Jack in the Box" or "Child in the womb"
+  (Nathan Bailey's Canting Dictionary, 1736).
+
+  Page 38
+  "help it off" is unclear in the original image.
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately Published
+       One called, A Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the
+              Memoirs of Christendom, And the Other, An Answer to that
+              Letter.
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+Author: Anonymous
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+<div class="transnote">
+<h4>Transcriber's note</h4>
+
+<p>
+This etext contains</p>
+<ol>
+<li><a href="#Letter">Reflections on a Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the
+Memoirs of Christendom</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Answer">Reflections upon an Answer
+to the Letter from Monsieur De Cros</a></li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>The spelling and hyphenation in the original are erratic. No corrections
+have been made other than those <a href="#corrections" class="correction" title="and marked like this">listed</a> at the end of the etext.</p>
+
+<!--
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+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<a name="Letter" id="Letter"></a>
+<img class="biggap" src="images/title1.png" width="300" height="551" alt="Title page of Reflections on a Letter" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h1>
+<span class="siginvis" title="A1r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A1r" id="Sig_A1r"></a>
+REFLECTIONS<br />
+UPON<br />
+<span class="smcap">Two Pamphlets</span><br />
+Lately Published;<br />
+</h1>
+
+<p class="big center">
+<em>One called</em>, A <span class="smcap">Letter</span> from<br />
+Monsieur <em>de Cros</em>, concerning the<br />
+<span class="smcap">Memoirs</span> of <em>Christendom</em>.<br />
+</p>
+<p class="center">And the Other,</p>
+<p class="big center">
+An <span class="smcap">Answer</span> to that Letter.</p>
+<p class="big center">
+Pretended to have been written by<br />
+the Author of the said <span class="smcap">Memoirs</span>.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p class="big center">
+By a Lover of Truth.</p>
+<hr />
+<p class="big center">
+IMPRIMATUR,<br />
+<span class="little"><em>April</em> 21st. 1693</span>
+ <span class="smcap" style="margin-left:4em;">Edward Cooke.</span>
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p class="big center">
+<em>LONDON.</em>
+</p>
+<p class="big center">
+Printed for <em>Richard Baldwin</em>, near the<br />
+<em>Oxford-Arms</em> in <em>Warwick-Lane</em>. 1693.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p><span class="siginvis" title="A1v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A1v" id="Sig_A1v"></a>&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>
+<span class="pagebreak" title="1">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a>
+<span class="sigvis" title="A2">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A2r" id="Sig_A2r"></a>
+REFLECTIONS<br />
+<span class="little">ON A</span><br />
+<span class="big">LETTER</span><br />
+From Monsieur <em>de Cros</em>, &amp;c.
+</h2>
+
+<p>I Was very glad when I heard that one Monsieur <em>de Cros</em> had published
+an Answer to a late Book, Entituled, <em>Memoirs of what pass&rsquo;d in
+</em>Christendom<em>, &amp;c.</em> And could not but expect some considerable
+Discoveries in those Affairs and Intriegues, from a person who thought
+himself a Match for Sir <em>W. T.</em> Besides, I hoped it might have had this
+good Effect, to move that Author in his own defence to oblige us once
+more with his Pen. This was sufficient to make me buy this Pamphlet
+greedily, as I do most others; which tho very often they entertain one
+ill enough, yet serve in general for some amusement amidst the Noise and
+Hurry of a dirty Town.</p>
+
+<p>But when I had read it over, I soon found my self deceived in the first;
+and have now lost all hopes of the other, since I have waited above two
+months in that Expectation, whereas two days were sufficient, had that
+Author thought fit to take any notice of such a Trifle, which makes me
+now despair of it; and as I perceiv&rsquo;d the Town never looked for any such
+thing; so all I meet with, either in Coffee-houses, or Ordinary
+Conversation, have such despicable Thoughts of this Letter, that I now
+begin to find I never had any reason to expect it at all. For in truth,
+<span class="pagebreak" title="2">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="A2v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A2v" id="Sig_A2v"></a>
+the whole Letter seems to me only design&rsquo;d to <em>Banter</em> Fools or
+Children, and to be written by a man who had lost all Respect to the
+Publick, whom he thinks fit to entertain with such wretched stuff, which
+certainly he could not pretend should either please or instruct any
+Reader, who had not as much malice, and as little Wit as himself. For
+besides Railing and Foul Language, his whole Letter from the beginning
+to the end is an errant Sham, and has nothing in it. I was therefore in
+vain to imagine Sir <em>W. T.</em> would descend so much below himself, to take
+any notice of so fulsome a Libel; and I do not believe either <em>de Cros</em>,
+or the kind Writer of the <em>Advertisement</em> after the Letter, did ever
+expect it.</p>
+
+<p>For first, If Sir <em>W. T.</em> be such a Philosopher, as he seems to be by
+his <em>Essay upon the Gardens of </em>Epicurus<em></em>, as well as several others;
+he must infinitely contradict the Ideas those Writings have given of
+him, if so sordid and insipid a Trifle as this Letter of <em>de Cros</em> could
+have any power to provoke him, tho it were but to scorn it.</p>
+
+<p>Besides, if he be so proud a Person, as <em>De Cros</em> is pleased to call
+him; certainly, while he remembers his own Quality, and the great
+Employments he has passed through with so much Honour to himself, and
+such important Services for his Prince and Country, such thoughts will
+never allow him to enter the Lists with one, who to say no more, has
+owned himself in his Letter to be <em>Un Moin Defroquè</em>, which none who
+understand the least of the <em>French</em> Tongue, need be told, is the lowest
+and most profligate Character that can be given a Man. I suppose the
+reason of it is, because he who has once broke his Vow to God, there are
+People enough apt to believe he will never regard any he makes to them.</p>
+
+<p>A third Reason is, Because his Letter is indeed unanswerable; and
+Prosecution would be as little necessary to him, as to one that pleads
+guilty at the Bar; for he owns over and over, every Line of the Charge
+<span class="pagebreak" title="3">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="A3r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A3r" id="Sig_A3r"></a>
+that he pretends is laid against him; says not one word, either to
+defend or extenuate it; does not contradict the least point in the
+Memoirs he pretends to Answer; nor lays one ill Action to Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s
+Honour. So that there remains but one way to Answer this Letter with any
+Rule or Justice, and that is, to gather all the cleanly Language one can
+pick up at <em>Billingsgate</em>, and bring it in its natural Reeking to the
+Press, and so make up a short, but sweet Pamphlet, set out with a
+Bead-roll of such Pearls, as are always to be found among the
+Oyster-women.</p>
+
+<p>A fourth Reason is, Because that Book which goes by the Name of Sir <em>W.
+T</em>&rsquo;s <em>Memoirs</em>, as one sees by the Publishers Preface, has been printed
+wholly without his Knowledg or Consent: For in the very first lines he
+plainly intimates he had his Copy from no Man then alive: And a known
+Writer since, who pretends to have inquired into that matter, assures
+us, the Publisher had it lying by him several years before it was
+published; nor can I find by my own best Inquiries, that Sir <em>W. T.</em> has
+ever own&rsquo;d it. And tho I may believe, like others, that he must have
+writ them, by that excellent Stile, that strength and clearness of
+Expression, as well as by that Spirit and Genius which so brightly
+shines through the whole, and is peculiar to that Author above others of
+his Age; and besides, because I suppose no Man else was capable of
+knowing or discovering so much of these Transactions; yet since they
+have stollen into Publick against his will and his privity, it is not to
+be imagined he should defend a thing he does not reckon as his own; and
+therefore if <em>de Cros</em>, or the honest <em>Translator</em>, had found themselves
+injured, their resentments had been more justly levelled at the
+Publisher, than the supposed Author.</p>
+
+<p>By all these Reasons, &rsquo;tis easy to believe, that a Person of Sir <em>W.
+T</em>&rsquo;s Character and Honour, and whose Reputation is so firmly established
+in the World, will
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>
+<span class="siginvis" title="A3v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A3v" id="Sig_A3v"></a>
+never fall so low to oppose himself against the
+Scurrilous Reproaches of so foul-mouth&rsquo;d a Railer; &rsquo;twould be like a set
+Duel between a strong Man well-arm&rsquo;d, and a poor wretched Cripple. The
+Quarrel therefore will be more properly turn&rsquo;d over to the rest of
+Mankind; for tho the venom of <em>this</em> be too weak to reach where it
+aim&rsquo;d; yet all those who have any regard for Truth or Justice, for
+Learning or Virtue, or even for good Manners and common Civility, must
+think themselves concern&rsquo;d in a Quarrel, where they find so notorious a
+breach of them all.</p>
+
+<p>&rsquo;Tis fit therefore so ignominious a Libeller should be exposed in his
+proper Colours, of an infamous, slandring, and unprovok&rsquo;t Railer; which
+tho his own Letter has plentifully done, yet &rsquo;twill be very proper to
+point to several places in it, where it is most remarkable.</p>
+
+<p>For my own part, I will confess, I have been a great Reader of all Sir
+<em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s Writings, and perhaps may have doated on some of them,
+especially, <em>That Immortal Essay on Heroick Virtue</em>, as one Writer since
+has deservedly called it; and that other upon <em>Poetry</em>, and even on this
+of the <em>Memoirs</em>. And finding Common Fame, wherever I had met it, agrees
+so well with the Picture these Pieces had given me of him, I will own to
+have had a very great Honour for the Author, as well as for his Books,
+and could not but esteem both a great deal the more for this Letter of
+<em>de Cros</em>, when I found that the triple-corded Malice of the <em>Writer</em>,
+the <em>Translator</em>, and the <em>Advertiser</em>, had not given one lash either to
+the Honour of the Person, or the truth of his Books. And all this put
+together, has in very truth given me so much Spight and Indignation,
+that I could not refrain entring on the <em>Pamphletiers</em> Trade, which I
+never did before, nor ever thought I should have done at all: And but
+for this Provocation, could have been very well satisfied to have lived
+on without the itch of seeing how I look
+<span class="pagebreak" title="5">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="A4r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A4r" id="Sig_A4r"></a>
+in Print; so that I may truly
+say for this, as the Poet does for his Verses,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><em>&mdash;&mdash;Facit Indignatio Versus.</em><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Before I enter upon observing what <em>de Cros</em> says concerning Sir <em>W. T.</em>
+which takes up the greatest part of his Letter, and leaves him either no
+Room, or no Memory for the <em>Memoirs</em> he pretends to Answer; I shall
+first examine what he speaks of himself, and in his own defence, against
+what he takes himself to be charged with.</p>
+
+<p>He begins, p. 10. <em>There arrived</em> (says he, quoting the <em>Memoirs</em>) <em>at
+that time from </em>England<em>, one whose Name was </em>de Cros<em></em>. Upon this he
+falls immediately into a Scurrilous Chafe. Now, one would wonder what
+should make the Man so offended to be called by his own Name, or what
+would have become of Sir <em>W. T.</em> if he had call&rsquo;d him out of his Name,
+which is indeed commonly thought an injury, but not the other, as ever I
+heard of before; yet he reckons it a terrible one to himself and his
+Family, which he tells us is <em>a good one</em>; I know not whether he means
+the <em>de Cros</em>&rsquo;s, or the <em>Monks</em>. The first I must confess, I never heard
+of in <em>France</em>, but the other is indeed a great one abroad, and a good
+one at home. But whatever he would have us think of the Goodness of his
+Family, I will never believe, by what little understanding I have of
+Heraldry, that any <em>Gentleman</em> would either write such a Letter, or
+<em>Translate</em> it, tho it were only out of the common Respect that is due
+to the Memory of a Great King, whose Person Sir <em>W. T.</em> has so often
+represented, and in so high a Character.</p>
+
+<p>But to proceed; <em>That he was formerly a </em>French<em> Monk</em> (as the Memoirs
+call him), he confesses, and owns besides (tho with a great deal of
+ill-will) that <em>He changed his Frock for a Petticoat</em>: For, tho he
+denies
+<span class="pagebreak" title="6">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="A4v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_A4v" id="Sig_A4v"></a>
+it positively, <em>p. 11.</em> yet five Lines after, he has these
+words; <em>There was too great advantage to throw off my Frock for the
+Petticoat I have taken, not to do it; it is a Petticoat of a </em>Scotch<em>
+Stuff</em>, &amp;c. I am glad it is of one so good as he mentions, and wish it
+were large enough to cover all his Shame: But whatever he says in the
+same Page, too malicious to be taken notice of here, of <em>Princesses, who
+have quitted the Veil for the Breeches</em> (tho, in that it self, I believe
+he is mistaken) yet all this will never serve to wipe off the Ignominy
+of <em>Un Moin Defroquè</em>: Upon which I shall only add, That the Marriage of
+a Monk, when stripp&rsquo;d of his Frock, is not thought likely to mend the
+matter: And I believe men of all Religions will agree in the Opinion,
+That if a Monk leaves his Frock, he ought to do it for a <em>Gown</em>, rather
+than for a <em>Petticoat</em>; and if he leaves the Orders of one Church,
+should in decency continue in the Orders of that Church to which he
+professes himself converted.</p>
+
+<p>As to his being a <em>Swedish Agent</em>, tho he is very angry the <em>Memoirs</em>
+should call him so; one cannot well discover by his Letter, whether he
+has a mind to grant it or no; however, he confesses, p. 13, 14. That
+<em>being Envoy from the Duke of </em>Holstein-Gottorp<em>, the Interests of his
+Master being inseperable from those of</em> Sueden, <em>he found himself
+engaged to be very much concerned in the Interests of that Crown; and
+that Monsieur </em>Van Benninguen<em> believed, He was intrusted with some
+Affairs from thence</em>. Which amounts to the very same with what the
+<em>Memoirs</em> say, p. 335. That <em>he</em> (de Cros) <em>had a Commission from the
+Court of </em>Sueden<em> (or Credence at least) for a certain petty Agency in
+</em>England<em></em>. This he says, <em>Is very Dirty</em>. Alas for the cleanly
+Gentleman! one would think he was afraid of fouling his Fingers, but he
+had a great deal more need have taken care of his mouth. By the way, I
+cannot but admire at the insufferable Impudence of the <em>English Printer</em>
+or Translator, who hath in the Title Page
+<a name="corrB1r" id="corrB1r"></a><a class="correction" href="#cnoteB1r" title="No pages 7 or 8 in original"><span class="pagebreak" title="9">&nbsp;</span></a><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a>
+<span class="sigvis" title="B">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B1r" id="Sig_B1r"></a>
+named this man, <em>An
+Ambassador at the Treaty of </em>Nimeguen<em></em>; since in the several Accounts I
+have seen printed of that Treaty, there is not the least mention of such
+a Name any other way than in those <em>Memoirs</em> he pretends to Answer. And
+&rsquo;tis doubtless very agreeable to think, that a man who gives himself so
+<em>good</em> a Character in his own Letter, should make so great a one in so
+August an Assembly as that is recorded to have been: And he himself in
+his whole Letter, arrogates no other besides that of Envoy Extraordinary
+from the Duke of <em>Holstein-Gottorp</em> into <em>England</em>, who was a Prince at
+that time wholly dispossess&rsquo;d of His Dominions.</p>
+
+<p>Another Passage in the Memoirs which he takes sadly to heart, is in the
+same <em>Pag. 335.</em> as follows: <em>At </em>London<em> he had devoted himself wholly
+to Monsieur </em>Barillon<em>, the </em>French<em> Ambassador, though pretending to
+pursue the Interests of </em>Sweden<em></em>: Against which he thus defends
+himself. First, Letter, <em>pag. 14</em>. He absolutely denies it; and says in
+the next, <em>He fell out with Monsieur </em>Barillon<em> for three Months,
+because he diverted the King of </em>England<em> from taking into his
+consideration the Interests of </em>Sweden<em></em>. And <em>pag. 16</em>. He says
+further; <em>That Monsieur </em>Barillon<em> put all in practice to sift him to
+the bottom</em> (concerning the <em>Swedish</em> Affairs) <em>nevertheless all the
+Offers of this Ambassador proved ineffectual, and wrought nothing upon
+this man</em> (meaning himself) <em>who if man would give credit to Sir </em>W. T.<em>
+was entirely devoted to Monsieur </em>Barillon<em>, and yet Monsieur </em>Barillon<em>
+found him not to be corrupted or bribed</em>. All this would be an Account
+good enough of his Innocence in that point, if it had not the misfortune
+to be so ill plac&rsquo;d. &rsquo;Tis indeed a good way back to the fifth Page of
+his Letter: And therefore what he says there, one may by the help of a
+little Charity, impute to the shortness of his Memory. These are his
+Words: <em>I have had the happiness during some years, to partake in the
+confidence of a Minister of State</em>, &amp;c. And a little after;
+<span class="pagebreak" title="10">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="B1v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B1v" id="Sig_B1v"></a>
+<em>Sir </em>W.
+T.<em> may well imagine that I did not ill improve this able Minister&rsquo;s
+Confidence, when he tells us, that I had wholly devoted my self to him</em>.
+But then how comes it, that in the same <em>15th</em> page, where he twice
+endeavours to defend himself against this Imputation, he should make
+such a Blunder as to say, <em>But yet I must confess, that at such time as
+he (Monsieur </em>Barillon<em>) stickled for my Master&rsquo;s Interest, and that of
+</em>Sweden<em>, I was </em>entirely devoted<em> to him</em>, &amp;c.? After this; let the
+Reader judge, whether <em>de Cros</em> does not confess at least as much, if
+not more in this Point, than the Memoirs charge him with: And it is to
+be observed from the same Book, that at the very time <em>de Cros</em> speaks
+of, <em>France</em> had taken into its Protection the Interests of <em>Sweden</em>,
+which it seem&rsquo;d for some Months before to have very little regarded.</p>
+
+<p>But nothing touches him so nearly as the following Passage in the same
+<em>335th</em> page of the Memoirs: <em>This man brought me a Pacquet from Court,
+commanding me to go immediately away to </em>Nimeguen<em></em>. Upon which, says
+he, <em>Pag. 16.</em> <em>Sir </em>W. T.<em> has a mind to make men believe that I was
+only sent into </em>Holland<em> to carry him a Dispatch from the Court</em>. This
+passage has so fiercely gall&rsquo;d him, that he is set a railing for six
+pages together; and the affront is, that he should be taken for an
+ordinary Courier, or Messenger. Had a dozen Wasps setled on his Tongue,
+they could not have swell&rsquo;d or infus&rsquo;d more Poison in it; he frets and
+foams at the mouth, and spatters so much Dirt on all sides, that it is
+not safe following him. In short, he takes it so heinously to be
+reckoned a Common Courier, that one could not have netled him more, had
+one call&rsquo;d him a Post, or a Post-horse. I cannot imagine why any such
+words in the <em>Memoirs</em>, should put a man into so much passion: And for
+my part, both in this and all the rest, I see but one reason why he is
+angry; and that is, <em>Because he is angry</em>. However, against this
+grievous Imputation,
+<span class="pagebreak" title="11">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="B2r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B2r" id="Sig_B2r"></a>
+he defends himself by this strong Argument; That
+<em>he was not sent over on purpose to deliver the Dispatch to Sir </em>W. T.<em>
+but for something of greater importance, which he knows himself, and
+will not tell any body</em>. Wherein I think he acts very discreetly; and I
+do not doubt, but the best way to give any Reputation to his mighty
+Secrets, is to hinder them from taking Air: Tho had he done us the
+favour to discover but one of all those he boasts so much of, it would
+perhaps have been the most effectual way to raise our expectation of the
+rest. He would indeed make us believe, that in five Hours time he stay&rsquo;d
+at the <em>Hague</em>, he had made some mighty Turn of State by his
+Negotiations there; which if there be any truth in it, we will grant him
+to have been not only an <em>Agent</em>, but a <em>Conjurer</em>; and from the strange
+Effect of his Conduct in that strange <em>Adventure of five hours</em>, we may
+hope one day to see a <em>Tragedy of that Name</em>, as there has been a
+<em>Comedy</em> already. But till he thinks fit to make more important
+Discoveries, he will pardon our suspense in that modest Opinion he has
+of himself, That doubtless he should publish more just and solid
+<em>Memoirs</em> than Sir <em>W. T.</em> if he would set about it. But I observe he
+desires <em>My Lord to take notice, that Sir </em>W. T.<em> confesses it was </em>De
+Cros<em> procured this Dispatch</em>. I find when men are very angry, that
+Truth is the least thing they regard: For this is more than ever I could
+observe after reading those <em>Memoirs</em> with more care and application
+than I am sure his good humour would ever permit him; and in <em>pag. 336.</em>
+find these Words: <em>How this Dispatch by </em>De Cros<em> was gain&rsquo;d, or by
+whom, I will not pretend to determine</em>. Which <em>De Cros</em> has very
+politickly thus altered, <em>Letter, pag. 18.</em> <em>I will not pretend to
+determine by what means, and how </em>De Cros<em> obtained this Dispatch</em>. But
+<em>pag. 19.</em> he forgets himself again, <a name="corrB2r" id="corrB2r"></a><a class="correction" href="#cnoteB2r" title="Possible error for ',' after 'says'.">and says.</a> <em>As for me, tho I had the
+dispatch given me, yet he (Sir </em>W. T.<em>) does not accuse me openly in
+<span class="pagebreak" title="12">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="B2v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B2v" id="Sig_B2v"></a>
+this place of bearing any other part in this affair, than only as a
+Messenger intrusted with the Conveyance</em>. But I suppose he never looked
+farther than his malice would give him leave, which is usually very
+short-sighted.</p>
+
+<p>But, after all, &rsquo;tis not easily thought why he should lay it so much to
+heart to be called a Courier, when the whole account he gives of his
+great Negotiations (besides his being Envoy of the <em>Duke</em> of
+<em>Holstein-Gottorp</em>) is, that he <em>was sent by </em>King Charles<em> the Second
+into </em>Sweden<em> and </em>Denmark<em>, to hasten the Passports for the Congress at
+</em>Nimeguen<em></em>: Which is all he tells us of his great Employments, and must
+be thought to have brought him into that intimacy and confidence he
+pretends with that great King, and for which he is pleased to make his
+Majesty such grateful Returns, and to form such a Character of him as he
+does in his Letter.</p>
+
+<p>For in the first place he tells us, <em>p. 5.</em> That <em>Mons. </em>Barillon<em> was
+the </em>Primum Mobile<em> of that King&rsquo;s conduct, which surprized all the
+World</em>. Which is to affirm more of him than any of his discontented
+Subjects, the pretended Patriots of that Age. For it is to assert openly
+and positively what they only pretended to suspect.</p>
+
+<p>Again, Soon after the King had made the Peace with <em>Holland</em>, <em>De Cros</em>
+brings his Majesty in, <em>p. 23.</em> speaking to him in these Words: <em>Tell
+the King my Brother</em> (meaning the <em>French</em> King) <em>that it is much
+against my mind, that I have made peace with these </em>Coquins<em> the
+</em>Hollanders<em></em>. And then a little before the conclusion of the Peace at
+<em>Nimeguen</em>, he delivers the King speaking thus to Mons. <em>Shrenburn</em>
+concerning the <em>Hollanders</em>; <em>In a little time Monsieur, I will bring
+these </em>Coquins<em> to Reason</em>. And in the same page he makes that Prince
+use the same Name to two great Ministers, Mons. <em>Barillon</em>, and Mons.
+<em>De Avaux</em>. The former whereof he pretends to have been the first Mover
+of all His Majesty&rsquo;s Councils. All which, if they be not absolute
+Untruths, as from his plentiful Gift that way, I am very much inclined
+<span class="pagebreak" title="13">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="B3r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B3r" id="Sig_B3r"></a>
+to believe, yet are so far from shewing the <em>profound Respect</em> the
+Writer pretends to, for the Memory of that Prince, that being put
+together, they make up this malicious Character; That a King of
+<em>England</em> was guided in his Conduct by a <em>French</em> Embassador; That he
+made and observed his Treaties with ill-meaning, or with ill-intentions;
+and that he treated his chiefest Confident (whom he makes to be Mons.
+<em>Barillon</em>) and another Embassador, with the greatest scorn and
+contempt.</p>
+
+<p>Besides, he brings this noble Prince upon the Stage, acting a mean piece
+of Dissimulation to cover his Confidence with so worthy a Person as
+Mons. <em>de Cros</em>; &rsquo;tis concerning his Dispatch so often mentioned into
+<em>Holland</em>; for being forc&rsquo;t to confess, that the King was angry with him
+at his return from thence; He plaisters it up with saying, p. 25. <em>If
+the late King of </em>England<em> did not approve of my Conduct in the Affairs
+of </em>Nimeguen<em>, which in effect he declared in publick not to be pleased
+with, in which he plaid his part to admiration</em>, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>But since we have seen the Character he gives of him as a King, let us
+observe how he Treats His Majesty as a <em>Mediator</em>, and how he Represents
+him balancing the Affairs of <em>Christendom</em> then in his hands. First, <em>de
+Cros</em> tells us, This Dispatch of his <em>was concerted with Monsieur
+</em>Barillon<em></em>: For tho he says, That that Ambassadour had no hand in the
+beginning of it, yet he owns him in the same place to <em>have part of it
+when it was concluding</em>; and that <em>Monsieur </em>de Ruvigny<em> was dispatcht
+by the King with an Account of it to the </em>French Court<em> the very same
+day that </em>de Cros<em> was sent away for </em>Nimeguen<em></em>. And <em>p. 25.</em> He tells
+us further, That <em>Prince </em>Rupert<em> askt him upon his Return, with a stern
+Countenance, If the Peace was concluded? and he answering in the
+Affirmative, the Prince cried out, O Dissimulation!</em> And <em>p. 28.</em> he
+tells us, That the <em>Prince of </em>Orange (the Kings Nephew)<em> writ thundring
+Letters
+<span class="pagebreak" title="14">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="B3v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B3v" id="Sig_B3v"></a>
+against him; and all the Ministers of the Confederates called
+for Vengeance</em>, &amp;c. Yet after all these Marks of something so very
+injurious to the <em>Allies</em>, and confidence to <em>France</em>, <em>The King </em>(says
+he, in the page last mentioned)<em> laughs in his Sleeve at the Surprize,
+at the Sorrow, and Complaints of the Confederates</em>. Which is to give us
+just such a Character of a <em>Mediator</em>, as he did before of a <em>King</em>.</p>
+
+<p>I leave it to all mens Judgment, whether more villanous Slanders could
+have been broached abroad by the worst of this Prince&rsquo;s Enemies; and
+whether it be not a Scandal to our Country, that they should be
+translated and published in <em>English</em>. But since Monsieur <em>de Cros</em> is
+so bold with the Sacred Memory of a Great King, for which he is yet so
+Impudent, as to profess <em>a most profound Respect</em>; What can a <em>Subject</em>
+expect, for whom he owns such a virulent Malice, and to whom he
+threatens such open Revenge.</p>
+
+<p>The same vein of truth and sincerity shines through the whole Letter,
+and the Author&rsquo;s Ingenuity is at the old pitch in what he pretends to
+rake out of the <em>Memoirs</em> concerning several Persons in great
+Employments; as the D. of <em>Lauderdale</em>, the present E. of <em>Rochester</em>,
+Sir <em>Joseph Williamson</em>, Sir <em>Lionel Jenkins</em>, and Mons. <em>Beverning</em>.
+This <em>Conjurer</em>, in all he says of them, seems resolved to raise up the
+Spirits of the Dead, to joyn with those of the Living in the Quarrel
+with these <em>Memoirs</em>; and by such distorted Consequences, draws
+Characters of them, whereof there is no Apparition, but what he himself
+raises: So that the Characters he gives of these Persons by such false
+Deductions for Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s, may justly be said to be his own.</p>
+
+<p>But from all I have observed in this Letter, I have wonder&rsquo;d at nothing
+so much, as that impudent Vanity in the Writer, who endeavours to make
+himself and the World believe, that these <em>Memoirs</em> were intended
+chiefly against him, whose very name is hardly twice mentioned after
+these two Pages in the whole
+<span class="pagebreak" title="15">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="B4r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B4r" id="Sig_B4r"></a>
+Book, which does not pretend to give
+Characters of Persons, but only to relate things that were done, or
+words that were said; And the way to have made an answer with any
+Justice, had been to have laid Exceptions either against the one, or the
+other, whereof there is not one word in all this <em>Answer without any
+Answer</em>. However, so ridiculous is this mans Insolence, that he begins
+his Letter thus, <em>I have been informed of the Calumnies that Sir </em>W. T.<em>
+hath caused to be printed against me</em>. And p. 7. <em>He set upon me first,
+he writes out of a Spirit of Revenge</em>, &amp;c. The sensless Arrogance of
+which I cannot think of; but it remembers me of the Fly on the
+Chariot-wheel. For he would fain make it to have been a piece of Revenge
+against him, for having brought that Dispatch to the <em>Hague</em>; and yet he
+lays it much to heart, that in that Affair he should only take him for a
+<em>Messenger</em>. And this indeed is to make him a very reasonable person,
+and like a man, that when he receives a blow, grows angry with the Stone
+by which it is given. But by all I can observe in these <em>Memoirs</em>, I do
+not find any thing which bears the least resemblance of Anger or Spleen,
+much less of Revenge against Mons. <em>de Cros</em>; but so far from it, that
+in the very Passage he lays most to heart, of the Kings calling him
+<em>Rogue</em>, the <em>Memoirs</em> mention particularly, that His Majesty said it
+<em>pleasantly</em>, which he himself cannot forbear observing in his Letter.</p>
+
+<p>Having thus long been considering how far he is provok&rsquo;d, and how well
+he defends himself; &rsquo;tis time now to see how he attacks the Person whom
+he fancies his capital Enemy, and how the Play begins. &rsquo;Tis then in
+these words, <em>p. 1.</em> <em>I know very well that Sir </em>W. T.<em> is of great
+worth, and deserves well, and that he hath been a long time imployed,
+and that too upon important Occasions</em>. This is a piece indeed very much
+of a piece with all the rest. Now, in the name of wonder, what can be
+the meaning! I wot well enough, what he would be at in all the rest of
+his Letter; but the Sense, the Wit,
+<span class="pagebreak" title="16">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="B4v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_B4v" id="Sig_B4v"></a>
+or the Design of these sweet Lines,
+is not easy to devise. I confess, I see a good many Plays, and I believe
+I have read more, but never met before, so fair a Prologue to so foul a
+Farce. I have read somewhere of a Monster among the Ancients, with a
+Virgins face, and all beside, a Serpent; which holds exact Resemblance
+here, unless <em>de Cros</em> should object against it, because Serpents have
+stings, and his Letter has none. However, if we will not grant him a
+<em>Conjurer</em>, as he would fain be thought, yet we cannot in Conscience
+deny him to be a <em>Jugler</em>, since the first thing he presents us with, is
+meer <em>slight of hand</em>; For he lays down a piece of <em>Gold</em> upon the
+Table, and immediately, <em>Presto, &rsquo;tis gone</em>; and all we can see, is only
+half a dozen Pellets of <em>Dirt</em>. In short, I am not able to reach what he
+means by so whimsical a beginning, and of so different a piece from
+every word that follows; unless that being resolved to say nothing
+afterwards, which any body would believe, he thought fit to entertain us
+at first with three Lines he is sure no body doubts.</p>
+
+<p>But, to be serious. If Sir <em>W. T.</em> be <em>of great worth</em>, If <em>de Cros</em>
+either believes it himself, or would have any body else to do so, why is
+every word that follows, so contradictory to these? If he <em>deserves
+well</em>, why is he used so very ill? Does <em>de Cros</em> understand what a man
+of <em>great worth</em> means? I doubt he does not, either by himself, or by
+such Company, as so much good Language in all the rest of his Letter,
+would make us believe he keeps. Can a man of <em>great worth</em>, and that
+<em>deserves well</em>, be <em>Vain</em>, <em>Proud</em>, <em>Revengeful</em>, <em>Ungrateful to his
+Friend</em>, <em>False to his Master</em>, and impertinently <em>Ambitious</em> in his
+very Retreat from all Publick Affairs? This is indeed a very worthy, and
+a very lively Character of a Man <em>of worth</em>. But is not such stuff as
+this, just a sputtering out, <em>Quicquid in Buccam venerit?</em> Like hot
+Porridge, that burns his Tongue; tho &rsquo;tis pretty plain, that all his
+heat proceeds from the overflowing of his Gall within, and from nothing
+without. One would think
+<span class="pagebreak" title="17">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a>
+<span class="sigvis" title="C">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C1r" id="Sig_C1r"></a>
+he has very well practised the old Rule of
+<em>Calumniare fortiter</em>; yet he has lamentably fail&rsquo;d of the consequence,
+<em>Aliquid inherebit</em>; for all the Dirt he endeavours to fling about,
+loves its own Element, and sticks close to his own Fingers. I never knew
+so unlucky a Gamester to throw so often, and to be always out! What, not
+one hit! I think the devil&rsquo;s in the Dice; however, lets throw again, but
+first we&rsquo;ll change Dice, and if the good Morals of this Man of great
+worth will not pass, let&rsquo;s try our luck at his Naturals. Sir <em>W. T.</em>
+(says my Gamester) <em>has been often and long employ&rsquo;d</em>; but he himself
+<em>did not know about what</em>; &rsquo;twas too, <em>upon very important occasions</em>,
+but he did <em>not know why</em>, unless, because, as <em>de Cros</em> tells us, <em>The
+King had an Aversion for him, and never trusted him</em>, how often soever
+he imployed him. This great Ambassador, to say the truth, is a very
+<em>Bubble</em>, and has as little Wit in some parts of the Letter, as Honesty
+in the other. Good Lord, how this silly World is apt to be gull&rsquo;d! What
+a Cheat, and what a Jilt this common Fame is! Who would have believed
+that the Author of the <em>Observations on the </em>Netherlands<em></em>, and of the
+charming <em>Miscellanea</em>, should be such a Cully, if <em>de Cros</em> had not
+made the discovery? but sure he could never be Author of those Books;
+doubtless he either hired some body to write them for him, or else some
+honest Bookseller like his own, had got the Copies, and set Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s
+name to them. <em>I would to God he had been so honest to set mine in the
+stead.</em> But now we have heard the Charge, pray make room for the
+Evidence: Sir <em>W. T.</em> is the <em>proudest Man</em> in the World; and what are
+the proofs, or the Instances? Why, <em>de Cros</em> says it, and that&rsquo;s
+Demonstration. He is ungrateful to his Friend, and why? Because <em>de
+Cros</em> knows it. He is false to his Master, and the Reason&rsquo;s plain, <em>de
+Cros</em> pretends to believe it. He is <em>the most revengeful of Men</em>, for he
+calls <em>de Cros</em> by his <em>own Name</em>. He is of all men <em>the most
+Ambitious</em>, and <em>never did man desire more to have a hand in Affairs</em>.
+This is beyond dispute, for <em>de Cros</em> knows his thoughts, and tells us
+not only what he
+<span class="pagebreak" title="18">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="C1v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C1v" id="Sig_C1v"></a>
+says of others, but what he thinks of himself, and
+with equal truth. This is the <em>Conjurer</em> again, and with a witness he
+tells us further, <em>p. 9.</em> of men <em>whose ruin Sir </em>W. T.<em> desires at the
+bottom of his heart</em>; where it is not to be questioned, but <em>de Cros</em>
+has been; and to put it beyond all doubt that he was so, he says, <em>p.
+13.</em> That <em>Sir </em>W. T.<em> came once to render </em>him<em> a visit at </em>his<em>
+Lodging</em>, and that <em>Mons. </em>Olivencrants<em> the </em>Swedish<em> Ambassador, was
+then at </em>his<em> House</em>, which gives me a scruple, that the visit might be
+meant to <em>him</em>, rather than to Mons. <em>de Cros</em>. However this is all the
+instances I find of his Acquaintance with a Person whose heart he
+pretends to know so well, and with whom by all the rest of his Letter, I
+should be apt to judge he was the least acquainted with, of any man in
+the World. But to close all these Generals before we come to
+particulars; he tells us, <em>p. 29.</em> he knows something of Sir <em>W. T.</em>
+upon the Subject of what passed between him and my Lord <em>Arlington</em>,
+<em>that makes his hair stand on end</em>. Alas, the poor Gentleman&rsquo;s in an
+Agony! Bless us all from sprights! what a puny Conjurer is this! to
+raise a Spirit that scares no body else, and run into a hole for fear of
+it himself: He has formed so terrible an Image of Sir <em>W. T.</em> in his own
+little working Noddle, that he knows not were he is, nor what he does,
+but is all in a maze. However, this I am certain, that no man alive who
+has read the rest of <em>de Cros</em>&rsquo;s Letter, but will allow him to be one,
+that if he knew any thing ill of Sir <em>W. T.</em> would at least be sure not
+to tell it; we have his own word for it, p. 7. <em>My design is not at all,
+my Lord, to write you a Letter full of Invectives against Sir </em>W. T.<em></em>
+And in another place, <em>That </em>(says he)<em> would not be like a Gentleman</em>.</p>
+
+<p>But yet to give him his due, and as he says, p. 7. <em>To let everybody see
+</em>he<em> has means in </em>his<em> hands to be revenged</em>; there is one point, and
+that alone, where he brings his Proof, lays downs his Instance, and that
+out of the <em>Memoirs</em> themselves; &rsquo;tis designed undeniably to convince
+the World of Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s Vanity, of which he could give <em>my
+<span class="pagebreak" title="19">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a>
+<span class="sigvis" title="C2">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C2r" id="Sig_C2r"></a>
+Lord</em> many
+instances, but at present contents himself with one, and &rsquo;tis a thumping
+one. &rsquo;Tis the following Period, which I shall quote out of the
+<em>Memoirs</em>, a little more faithfully than he does in his Letter, which I
+was so curious to observe, by thinking the word [<em>Clutches</em>] to be no
+part of Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s stile, and found he had taken a great deal of
+pains, to wrest it as much as he could to his turn. It runs thus, <em>Mem.</em>
+p. 30. <em>This I suppose gave some occasion for my being again designed
+for this Ambassy, who was thought to have some credit with </em>Spain<em> as
+well as </em>Holland<em>, from the Negotiations I had formerly run through, at
+the </em>Hague<em>, </em>Brussels<em>, and </em>Aix la Chapelle<em>, by which the remaining
+part of </em>Flanders<em> had been saved out of the hands of </em>France<em> in the
+year 1668.</em> Now for my own part, I must confess my self so giddy a
+Reader, and of so much inadvertency, that when I read that Passage, I
+took it for a singular piece of Modesty, since the Author gives for a
+Reason, why the King chose him for his second Ambassy in <em>Holland</em>,
+because he had been formerly employed in those Countries, and not for
+any Personal Merit in himself; but <em>de Cros</em> is so great a Stranger to
+Modesty, that we cannot blame him for not knowing it when he meets it;
+and since he has no other Accusations of this kind, I must profess, I
+can discover nothing of Vanity in the whole <em>Series</em> of all those
+Relations, nor can reckon for such, the Author&rsquo;s not avoiding to speak
+of himself any more than of other Persons (when it came in his way) who
+had so great and so continual a part in the whole Course of that Story.
+In his other Works this Author I am sure makes little mention enough of
+himself; and it were to be wisht that Persons so much employ&rsquo;d in
+publick Business, would tell all their own Parts as well others Mens,
+and as nakedly as he seems to do in these <em>Memoirs</em>.</p>
+
+<p>But the reason <em>de Cros</em> gives us, why he would have the World believe
+him in all he says against Sir <em>W. T.</em> is, Because he is first attackt,
+and thereupon in great Passion and Rage, which will pass for an
+admirable Argument,
+<span class="pagebreak" title="20">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="C2v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C2v" id="Sig_C2v"></a>
+that he designs to speak nothing but truth, and for
+a very cunning way of being believed; tho some men perhaps may think,
+that whatever is said in Passion, is but just so much of <em>nothing to the
+purpose</em>, and that it commonly makes a man in what he says or does, not
+only as peevish as a Wasp, but as blind as a Beetle. But if he will
+believe right or wrong, why will not he believe in his turn? And why is
+not he contented to <em>Give</em> as well as to <em>Take</em>? He will not allow that
+Sir <em>W. T.</em> might several times have been Secretary of State, when Mr.
+<em>Montague</em>, and Mr. <em>Sydney</em>, who are named (in <a name="corrC2v" id="corrC2v"></a><a class="correction" href="#cnoteC2v" title="Page number missing in original"><em>Memoirs p.</em>&nbsp;</a>) to have
+been set on him by the Lord <em>Arlington</em> at that time to persuade him to
+accept it, are still alive, as well as my Lord Treasurer, who is
+mentioned, <em>Mem. p. 273.</em> to have written to him by His Majesty&rsquo;s
+Command to come over and enter on the Secretaries Office. And <em>p. 385.</em>
+&rsquo;tis further added, That Sir <em>W. T.</em> received the <em>King&rsquo;s own Orders to
+come immediately over, and enter upon that Office, and to acquaint the
+Prince and States with that Resolution</em>; which must of course have come
+to him through my Lord <em>Sunderland</em>&rsquo;s hand, who <em>Mem. p. 387.</em> is said
+to have been brought into Sir <em>Joseph Williamson</em>&rsquo;s place, and his
+Lordship being likewise still alive, can easily tell, whether this be
+true or no. Therefore, why does not <em>de Cros</em> himself, or some Friend
+for him (if he has any) enquire into the truth of these Passages which
+are told so positively, and wherein so many parties concern&rsquo;d are still
+alive, tho most of them with other Titles. And indeed, tho it may be ill
+for Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s private Satisfaction, that these <em>Memoirs</em> were printed
+against his Consent, and during his Life, which it appears was never
+intended; yet nothing could defend the Truth of them so much, as that so
+many Persons are yet alive, who had so great a part in all those Affairs
+there related, who are the best and most competent Judges of the Truth;
+and I never heard that any of them have yet contradicted the least part.
+But however, since the <em>Monk</em> has got into the <em>Infallible
+<span class="pagebreak" title="21">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="C3r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C3r" id="Sig_C3r"></a>
+Chair</em>, he
+must be believed, there is no help, and we must like the <em>Welsh-man</em>,
+<em>Take her own word for it</em>. And so let him go away with all those
+apposite and choice Epithets he has given of this <em>most worthy</em> and
+<em>well-deserving</em> person, without where, or when, or why, or wherefore;
+For I am sure there is no way of replying to them; and he that would set
+about it, might as well resolve to write an Answer to a Leaf in
+<em>Textor</em>&rsquo;s Epithets.</p>
+
+<p>And thus I have with much ado rid my hands of a great part of <em>De
+Cros</em>&rsquo;s Rubbish, as far as it endeavours to bespatter Sir <em>W. T.</em> in his
+Morals and Intellectuals. It remains now I should observe a little what
+he says concerning his Fortunes, which seems to turn upon these two
+rusty Hinges, that make as ill a noise as all the rest; the obscurity
+from whence he was raised to all those great Employments, and his
+disgrace upon leaving them, which <em>De Cros</em> says was immediately after
+his Return from <em>Nimeguen</em>.</p>
+
+<p>For my own part I must confess I am neither old enough, nor have had
+Conversation in Courts, and with Publick Affairs, to give an account how
+Sir <em>W. T.</em> came into Business, or how he went out, any further than I
+could gather from Writings and Transactions which are publick and known
+to every body; or by particular enquiries from some Friends and
+Acquaintance of my own; and it has happened, that some of them have long
+known so much of that Family, as to assure me it is a very Ancient one:
+That Sir <em>W. T.</em> was born of a very Honourable Father, who was for many
+years of the Privy Council in <em>Ireland</em> to King <em>Charles</em> the First, and
+King <em>Charles</em> the Second, and was long possessed of one of the best
+Offices in that Kingdom, both for Honour and Profit; as likewise in his
+time a Member of several Parliaments in <em>England</em>: That his two younger
+Brothers are known to have lived always with plentiful Fortunes, and in
+much esteem: So that this Gentleman alone seems to have been born under
+the unluckiest Planet in the world, tho Heir to his Father&rsquo;s Fortune,
+and Successor to his
+<span class="pagebreak" title="22">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="C3v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C3v" id="Sig_C3v"></a>
+Office, which was so considerable; yet he only of
+all his Family, was <em>in Obscurity</em>, and <em>lay in the Dust</em> (for so the
+<em>French</em> Letter has it) till my Lord <em>Arlington</em> raised him out of both;
+whose beams it seems were so refulgent, as to make him shine at that
+distance his Foreign Employments carried him to. My Friends have
+likewise assured me from their own remembrance and knowledge, that Sir
+<em>W. T.</em> shined as much in a Parliament of <em>Ireland</em> soon after the
+King&rsquo;s Restoration, as <em>De Cros</em> says he shined long in his Employments
+abroad; and this was several years before he came into any Foreign
+Employments. They told me, likewise that he was very easy in his
+Fortune, not only by what he had from his <em>Father</em>, but from his <em>Lady</em>,
+to whom God be thanked (and it is very happy for her Ladyship that) <em>De
+Cros</em> says, he has no Quarrel. By all which, and the many Employments he
+since passed through, and of which in one of his Essays he says, he
+<em>never sought any</em>; in my weak conception I should think he was a
+person, that by the Circumstances of his Humour and his Fortune, needed
+the Court less than the Court needed him.</p>
+
+<p>As to his going out from Publick Employments, which <em>De Cros</em> tells us
+was upon <em>the King&rsquo;s being so ill satisfied with his Conduct and
+Management of Affairs abroad, particularly those at </em>Nimeguen<em></em>; that
+<em>he slighted him upon his return from thence, and made very little use
+of him</em>. I can give no other Account besides what I find of the Time and
+the manner in the <em>Epistle</em> before the <em>Memoirs</em>; only I find, by
+comparing the Date of his Return from <em>Nimeguen</em>, with that of King
+<em>Charles</em>&rsquo;s Declaration upon his dissolution of the old Council, and
+selecting a new one, that Sir <em>W. T.</em> was a Member of that new and
+select Council; and it was the Common Town-talk at that time, that this
+Declaration was writ by him, and that he was in his Majesty&rsquo;s Chief
+Confidence upon that surprising Resolution, which was received with such
+Applauses, Bonfires, and other expressions of Joy in the City. Besides
+all this, having had some acquaintance among
+<span class="pagebreak" title="23">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="C4r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C4r" id="Sig_C4r"></a>
+<em>Spanish</em> Merchants in
+Town, I came to know, that several of them about two years after, had
+recourse to Sir <em>W. T.</em> upon his being then declared Ambassador
+Extraordinary to the Crown of <em>Spain</em>, by the King at Council, whereof
+he himself was then a Member. All which laid together, does most
+abundantly verifie what <em>De Cros</em> says of his being disgraced upon his
+return from <em>Nimeguen</em>. But the best account of all these Passages we
+must expect whenever he will think fit to publish the first and third
+part of the <em>Memoirs</em>, which are mentioned at the beginning and end of
+those the world has seen already. In the mean time, what little has
+happened to fall in the way of my knowledge or enquiries, may be enough
+to discover the impudent Forgery of this false Coyner, who pretends to
+counterfeit all sorts of Metals, but is so wretched a bungler, and
+performs it so grosly, that not one of them will pass. &rsquo;Twas for this
+Reason, I suppose, that the <em>French</em> Edition of his Letter pretends to
+have been printed at <em>Cologne</em>, which I have long observed to be the
+Common Forge, or at least the Common Form of Paltry, Scurrilous Libels,
+printed in that Language; and which no Printer or Bookseller abroad dare
+set their Names to. This I cannot but mention for the Credit and
+Reputation of his honest Stationer at the <em>Mitre</em>, who I believe is the
+only Stationer in <em>England</em> would have had the ingenuity to set the
+<em>Mitre</em> on this <em>Monk</em>&rsquo;s Head.</p>
+
+<p>The last precious piece of his Malice I shall take notice of, is, That
+he grudges Sir <em>W. T.</em> even the Honour of his Retreat from Publick
+Affairs, by which perhaps he has been more distinguished, than by his
+greatest Employments: But this <em>De Cros</em> cannot allow him: No, saye he,
+<em>p. 8.</em> <em>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</em>. Alas! what a sad Fate that man falls under, that dares
+incur the displeasure of Mons. <em>De Cros</em>? or who can tell what will
+become of him? He must neither live at Court, nor at his own House, in
+publick
+<span class="pagebreak" title="24">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="C4v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_C4v" id="Sig_C4v"></a>
+Business, nor out of it; In Town, nor in Country: where shall
+we find a place for him? I know none but the middle Region of the Air:
+But, <em>It was not his love for his own Ease</em>, &amp;c. <em>that made him decline
+his Employments</em>. Why? whoever informed this Conjurer it was? I am sure
+the <em>Memoirs</em> say no such thing, but in the last Page gives us a quite
+different account; where, telling his Reasons why he excused himself, at
+his return from <em>Nimeguen</em>, from entring upon the Secretaries Office,
+are these Words: <em>I that never had any thing so much at heart as the
+union of my Country, which I thought the only way to its greatness and
+felicity was very unwilling to have any part in the divisions of it</em>.
+And towards the end: <em>After almost two years unsuccessful endeavours at
+some Union, or at least some allay of the Heats and Distempers between
+the King and his Parliament, I took the Resolution of having no more to
+do with Affairs of State</em>. Which Resolution it seems was taken about the
+beginning of the Year 1681. when he sent the King word he <em>would pass
+the remainder of his life like as good a private Subject as any he had</em>,
+&amp;c. as is to be seen in the Epistle. Yet for all this Mons. <em>De Cros</em>,
+who knows his thoughts better than himself, or than his Actions can
+inform us, says, <em>Never did man desire more to have a hand in Affairs</em>.
+Why here he shews us the silly <em>Bubble</em> again, and the wise way he takes
+to fulfil this impatient Desire; &rsquo;Tis by going to his House in the
+Country, where he stays five years, as he tells us in one of his Essays,
+without so much as ever seeing the Town: and since (as I am inform&rsquo;d) to
+avoid so much Resort at that smaller distance from the City, he goes to
+another of his Houses of a much greater in the Country; which was an
+admirable wise Contrivance to satisfie his Longings to get again into
+Business: Truly I my self could have helpt him to a Better: For could he
+not like other men of such a craving Kidney, have still buzzed about the
+Court, knocked at every dore there, and when one was deaf and would not
+open, go to another; and at the worst have grown so troublesome, that
+some body
+<span class="pagebreak" title="25">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a>
+<span class="sigvis" title="D">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D1r" id="Sig_D1r"></a>
+would at last bring him into Employment, tho it were but to
+be rid of him? Or, if this Contrivance had failed, he might have herded
+among the Factious and Discontented about the Town; gone to the
+Coffee-houses, railed at the Ministers, and quarrelled with the
+Government, till they would be glad to have hired him at the expence of
+an Employment to hold his Tongue: And I am sure if he talks as well as
+he writes, he might very well have gone this way to work, and with as
+much likelihood to succeed as <em>Others have done, or pretend to do</em>. Tho
+a Common Reader would be apt to think the Author of these <em>Memoirs</em>
+might have found some other ways, either of preserving himself in
+Business, or of getting in when he was out; at least in so easy a Court
+as that of King <em>Charles</em> the Second&rsquo;s is taken to have been. Or if
+these Endeavours had miscarried, he might yet have made some shift or
+other to have obtained his Desire upon such a Revolution as has since
+happened; and he is very much wronged by the common Voice of the Town,
+if he has not found it as hard to excuse himself from entring into
+Publick Employments in this Reign, as in that of the late King
+<em>Charles</em>.</p>
+
+<p>For my own part, I can profess with the greatest Truth in the world,
+That before this Libel of <em>De Cros</em>, I have never met with in all my
+Conversation and Reading, with the least Reproach from any man against
+Sir <em>W. T.</em> except it be in one point; Of his having made too rashly, or
+kept too obstinately, his Resolution, Never to enter again into <a name="corrD1r" id="corrD1r"></a><a class="correction" href="#cnoteD1r" title="Changed from 'Pulick'.">Publick</a>
+Employments; especially since he lives in an Age where such persons as
+he appears to be by his Writings, might be of so uncommon use and
+Advantage to his Country: This I cannot but own, I have often heard
+said, and that somewhat warmly, to his charge, and must leave it to
+himself to clear it as he can. But however, <em>De Cros</em> it seems knows his
+thought best, and must be believed in all he says upon this Point, as
+well as the rest: And I only wish, since the Spark is
+<span class="pagebreak" title="26">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="D1v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D1v" id="Sig_D1v"></a>
+so good at
+finding out what other men think, that he would take the pains to learn
+for his comfort what all men think of him: One thing I am sure is, that
+with all the Bloaches of his dirty Pencil, he has daub&rsquo;d up a Picture of
+Sir <em>W. T.</em> which has top-fil&rsquo;d the measure of all Forgery; <em>Sed Vetitum
+nihil est scheleri</em>, and which is as true and like the Original, as a
+man would make of this Dauber, if he should say, <em>De Cros</em> were a very
+honest, worthy, well-natur&rsquo;d, well-bred, fair-spoken, plain-dealing,
+ingenious Writer; of excellent Morals, wondrous Wit, and exact Truth.</p>
+
+<p>And now I have done with him, I can hardly answer it to my self why I
+ever began, or why I went about to foul my fingers with such a Subject:
+I am sure nothing could have forced me but an irresistible Impulse, and
+some natural love I bear to Vertue, to Learning, and to Truth; of all
+which I find so great a share in this Honourable person&rsquo;s Writings,
+which I have read so often, and with so much pleasure; and from which I
+cannot but confess to have learnt more than from all other Books I have
+read in my life; which I say after much greater and better Readers than
+my self, and yet I have been a great Porer too. All this would not
+suffer me to let <em>De Cros</em>&rsquo;s Libel pass without these Reflections; for
+as to any regular Reply, it could no more be made to this, than to a
+Paper that comes with a very fair Superscription, and subscribed by some
+<em>Worshipful Name</em>, but had nothing clear through, besides long unsightly
+Scrawls and foul Blots with a Pen; and so intended for some such flam as
+your Twelve-Penny Writers use to gull those idle people with, that buy
+up all Pamphlets they meet: And since I have confess&rsquo;d my self such a
+Customer, &rsquo;tis but justice I should be laughed at in my turn.</p>
+
+<p>After all I have writ upon this Subject, I cannot but think my Ink has
+been too white all this time; however, I have Gall enough about me to
+make it blacker at another,
+<span class="pagebreak" title="27">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a>
+<span class="sigvis" title="D2">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D2r" id="Sig_D2r"></a>
+if ever the fit of Scribling should take me
+again; which may very well be, when I meet with another Author of so
+little <em>Wit</em>, so little <em>Memory</em>, and so little <em>Truth</em> as <em>De Cros</em>.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><em>&mdash;&mdash;Melius non tangere, Clamo,</em><br /></span>
+<span class="i1"><em>Flebit, &amp; insignis tota cantabitur Urbe.</em><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>As to the candid Translator, I cannot forbear doing him the Justice to
+give him that part which he deserves, and belongs to him in all I said
+of <em>De Cros</em>, for his share in the Letter, by so false, and so malicious
+a Translation; nor can refuse him my approbation for a worthy Translator
+to so worthy an Author; wherein he has taken the same pains a man would
+do in smutting over a Chimny-Sweeper, or blacking over a Crier of
+Smalcoal. Which is all I shall say of him.</p>
+
+<p>But, for the <em>Advertiser</em>, as his Stile is much fairer, and consists
+mostly of Criticisms, so he will deserve no other than very fair and
+critical Reflections. Yet I cannot but wonder, that in the first part of
+his Advertisement, he should go about to defend the <em>severe or indecent
+Language</em> (as he calls it) in <em>De Cros</em>&rsquo;s Letter: Which sure, nothing
+could do towards a person who has so often represented a great King,
+whatever his own Merits or Demerits might have been. I am also something
+at a loss what he should mean by slandering <em>De Cros</em> with such a Title
+as that of, <em>The Ingenious Author of the foregoing Letter</em>. For
+doubtless if the Man has any Wit, I may say of it as one did of a
+Gentleman&rsquo;s Courage, which another had much commended; That <em>he might
+have courage for ought he knew, but he had as live be damn&rsquo;d as shew
+it</em>.</p>
+
+<p>The rest of his gentle <em>Advertisement</em> consists, (as he pleases to call
+it) of <em>the Sentiments of the Criticks upon these Memoirs when they
+first came out</em>.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="pagebreak" title="28">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="D2v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D2v" id="Sig_D2v"></a>
+The first whereof is, That <em>the Stile was too luscious and affected</em>. I
+confess I am not acquainted with that Term of <em>a Luscious Stile</em>, and
+cannot easily stumble upon what it means, unless it be to say, That the
+Bride is too fair, or the Grapes are too sweet. But &rsquo;tis yet harder for
+my poor Conception to find out how a Stile can be both <em>Luscious</em> and
+<em>Affected</em>; Which latter I should have otherwise mistook for a Quality
+that had ever given a harshness to any Stile, that would not be very
+consistent with <em>Luscious</em>: And <em>Tacitus</em> has not escaped the Imputation
+of being both harsh and <em>Affected</em>, by several <em>Criticks</em>. I am afraid
+the Gentleman&rsquo;s Mouth might have been a little out of taste by reading
+these <em>Memoirs</em>; and <em>that</em> might possibly have proceeded from some
+cholerick Humour redundant in his Stomach; which I the rather suspect
+from these words in the Beginning of his Advertisement; <em>As nothing more
+sensibly touches </em>US<em>, than to have our Reputation</em>, &amp;c. which seem to
+insinuate, that he took himself for one of the Persons he thought
+offended by them, and <em>treated with too much Freedom, and too little
+Ceremony</em>; as he afterwards speaks of others. But if Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s Stile
+be faulty, I have nothing to say; only desire, That some of the
+<em>Criticks</em> the <em>Advertiser</em> speaks of, will be so kind to mend it when
+they write next, whereby I think they will do a very great Honour to our
+Language. I am only sorry for those poor Booksellers who have so rashly
+undertaken the printing of his several Works, and wish they may not be
+undone after the Judgment of these severe <em>Criticks</em> upon them. Yet to
+give them a little comfort, I must needs take notice, that all men are
+not of the same nice Palat, neither at home nor abroad: For Monsieur
+<em>Wiquefort</em> concludes his <em>Memoirs of Ambassadors</em>, with regretting that
+there had been so few Accounts given by any of them of Foreign
+Countries; and that there were like to be fewer hereafter; <em>Because
+Monsieur </em>Temple<em> is inimitable in what he has
+<span class="pagebreak" title="29">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="D3r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D3r" id="Sig_D3r"></a>
+written of the</em> United
+Netherlands. And among many Books and Pamphlets that mention his Works,
+I have yet seen none that does it without great Value and Approbation. I
+am sure in all the <em>French</em> Editions of his several Works (which have
+had the luck to be still Translated into several Languages as they came
+out) the Epistles and Prefaces prefixed before them, are full of the
+greatest Honour and Applause that can be given to Writings, which pass
+so ill with the <em>Criticks</em>, this Advertiser tells us of at home; so that
+&rsquo;tis possible some of these <em>Memoirs</em> may yet go off, which I suppose
+was the chief thing intended by him that publisht them.</p>
+
+<p>However, let such Statesmen as <em>de Cros</em>; or such <em>Criticks</em> as our
+<em>Advertiser</em>, or Malice and Detraction it self, say what they will of
+the <em>Memoirs</em>; I dare answer for all Scholars and Lovers of Learning,
+that they shall pay the Honour and Esteem which is, and will be ever
+justly due to the <em>Miscellanea</em>; and shall not only find what is
+pleasing and instructing, but also something that is new and surprizing
+whenever they read <a name="corrD3r" id="corrD3r"></a><a class="correction" href="#cnoteD3r" title="Comma added">them,</a> let this Author&rsquo;s Stile be as <em>Luscious</em> and
+<em>Affected</em> as it will; which is all I need say for the poor Bookseller&rsquo;s
+sake.</p>
+
+<p>The second Criticism the Advertiser mentions, is upon the Digressions,
+tho he is so good to confess himself not of their Opinion who find fault
+with them. But I wish he had made a fairer Quotation in a Line or two
+out of one of them, by which he would seem to make Sir <em>W. T.</em> say, That
+<em>Prince </em>Maurice<em>&rsquo;s Parrot</em> spoke, and askt, and answered common
+Questions like a reasonable Creature: Tho indeed he only says, That his
+<em>curiosity made </em>him<em> enquire from the first hand about such a common
+Story, Of a Parrot that spoke</em>, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>For my self, I must needs say, that that Digression gave me not only
+some Entertainment when I read it, but a good deal of thought since; and
+the more,
+<span class="pagebreak" title="30">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="D3v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D3v" id="Sig_D3v"></a>
+because I remember one of the <em>Athenian Mercuries</em>, in Answer
+to a Question sent them upon this very Story, seem&rsquo;d to allow the thing
+possible. But after all my rambling thoughts upon that Subject, I must
+leave it to better Reasoners than my self to determine, whether Speech
+and Reason are so individual, that whatever Creature has any share in
+the one, must be allow&rsquo;d to partake of the other. However it be, the
+Letter I have been lately observing, has throughly convinc&rsquo;d me, that
+whether a Man may <em>Speak</em> or no, at least he may <em>Write</em> without
+<em>Reason</em>. But this I am sure is a Digression in me, whatever it was in
+the Author of the <em>Memoirs</em>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>The last <em>Criticism</em> the <em>Advertiser</em> mentions, is, That <em>in these
+</em>Memoirs<em> there are several Persons, Eminent both for their Station and
+Quality, and some of them still alive, treated with so much Freedom, and
+so little Ceremony</em>. This in my slender Judgment, appears a more
+extraordinary Objection, than the other two. For I had ever imagined,
+that the very <em>Ratio formalis</em> of a good History, or Memoirs, had been
+the <em>Truth</em> of them, which it is impossible should ever appear without
+<em>great Freedom</em>, and <em>little Ceremony</em>, either to the Persons they
+represent, or concerning the Actions they relate. And this in my
+Opinion, gives the great and general Esteem that is deservedly put upon
+the Memoirs of <em>Philip de Comines</em>, whose Stile seems very mean and
+vulgar, but his <em>Freedom</em> great, and <em>Ceremony</em> very little, either with
+those two Great Princes that were his Masters, or in any Account he
+gives of Actions, or of Persons, tho many of these were probably alive
+at the time of Writing or Publishing these <em>Memoirs</em>. But in truth since
+his time, his Method has been very little pursued, and more is the pity,
+since it has made so much room, and so unworthily, for the fulsome
+Flatteries,
+<span class="pagebreak" title="31">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="D4r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D4r" id="Sig_D4r"></a>
+and nauseous Panegyricks of so many Books or Prefaces as
+have over-run the Press in our Age; which not only endeavour to put
+Shams and Cheats upon Mankind; but are, I doubt, of great Mischief to
+the Interests and Concernments of those Countries where they grow. For
+let the <em>Criticks</em> say what they please against writing Story with <em>too
+much Freedom</em>, and <em>too little Ceremony</em>, I am a little disposed to
+believe, That if there were more such <em>Authors</em>, there would not be so
+many such <em>Actors</em>, as have been so often seen upon the Publick Stages
+of the World; who, like Rooks when they are gotten to the Top-branches
+of great Trees, think only of building their own Nests as high as they
+can, and feathering them as well as they can, without any care how the
+Tree thrives under them, or whether by their Muting and Fluttering
+about, they spoil the Branches and Leaves of that Tree it self where
+they were bred, or found shelter. Peradventure such Actors would not
+have plaid such Parts upon the Stage, if they had not trusted to the
+Disguises and Masks they were in, or had suspected they would be pull&rsquo;d
+off by some <em>plain, rough hand</em>, either while the Play lasts, or as soon
+as &rsquo;tis ended. For men are seldom so harden&rsquo;d, as to grow totally
+careless of their Names, and their Memories, after they are dead, tho
+they may hope to escape while they are alive.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>For these and some other such trivial Reasons, I must profess, I cannot
+joyn heartily with the <em>Criticks</em> in this last Objection; but shall be
+very glad to joyn with the Advertiser in believing, or at least in
+wishing, that Sir <em>W. T.</em> would be prevailed with by the Letter, or this
+Advertisement, to take some notice himself either of the one, or the
+other, which might possibly make the Press some amends for this Scribble
+of mine; at least it would me, who should think my
+<span class="pagebreak" title="32">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="D4v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_D4v" id="Sig_D4v"></a>
+self very well
+rewarded by it. For whatever Passion <em>de Cros</em>, or the <em>Advertiser</em>, or
+any of those US&rsquo;s he speaks of in the beginning of his short Paper, may
+have against the Author, I shall ever have as much Passion for his
+Writings. And as for this of my own, I pretend to no more, than to be
+forgiven by him and other Men, because it is my first Essay, and for
+ought I yet know, it may be my last.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<a name="Answer" id="Answer"></a>
+<img class="biggap" src="images/title2.png" width="300" height="539" alt="Title page of Reflections on an Answer" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h1>
+<span class="siginvis" title="E1r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E1r" id="Sig_E1r"></a>
+REFLECTIONS<br />
+<span class="little">UPON AN</span><br />
+<span class="big">ANSWER</span><br />
+<span class="little">TO THE</span><br />
+Letter from Mons. <em>De Cros</em>.
+</h1>
+<p class="center">
+Pretended to be written by the Author<br />
+of the <em>Memoirs</em>.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p class="center">
+By a Lover of Truth.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p class="center">
+<em>LONDON:</em></p>
+<p class="center">
+Printed for <em>Richard Baldwin</em>, near the<br />
+<em>Oxford-Arms</em> in <em>Warwick-Lane</em>. 1693.
+</p>
+<hr />
+<p><span class="siginvis" title="E1v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E1v" id="Sig_E1v"></a>
+&nbsp;
+</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>
+<span class="pagebreak" title="35">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a>
+<span class="sigvis" title="E2">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E2r" id="Sig_E2r"></a>
+<span class="smcap">Reflections</span> <em>upon an Answer<br />
+to the Letter from Monsieur </em>De Cros<em>.<br />
+Pretended to be written by the Author of<br />
+the </em>Memoirs<em>, &amp;c.</em></h2>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">When</span> the foregoing Papers were finished, and just ready for the Press, I
+was surprized to hear that Sir <em>W. T.</em> himself had thought fit (contrary
+to what I had conjectured in the first pages of those) to take publick
+notice of Mons <em>De Cros</em>&rsquo;s Letter; That it was now just come out, and
+crying about the Streets: Tho I had then several surmises that it might
+be some Imposture, yet one could not well be more amazed than I was, at
+a piece of News I had so little expected, and the contrary of which I
+thought I had so well convinced both the world, and my self. Whatever I
+expected from it, I was eager enough to get it, and to read it over: My
+suspicion increased sufficiently, when I had not gone above ten Lines;
+and when I had perused it, I found my self as much disappointed, as I
+was by <em>De Cros</em>&rsquo;s Letter; being throughly convinced it was a
+Counterfeit, (tho a witty one, and perhaps an innocent one too.) For
+this I found several undeniable Reasons, which I suppose any thinking
+Reader could not but observe as well as I.</p>
+
+<p>And first, I took notice of the <em>Exordium</em> as a little too common and
+thredbare for that Author; and imagined a worse Writer might have been
+hard put to it, not to have found a better than, The <em>importunity of his
+Friends</em> for writing in his own defence. Besides, I thought the disguise
+of it was something mean, and could not conceive why, if that Author had
+a mind to own it, he
+<span class="pagebreak" title="36">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="E2v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E2v" id="Sig_E2v"></a>
+should chuse to do it in the <em>Third Person</em>,
+rather than the <em>First</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Another Reason is; That this Answerer makes him publickly own the
+<em>Memoirs</em>, which I could never hear he has yet done. Nay farther; He
+makes Him defend them in all parts; which I doubt, if he had owned them,
+he would not do it any further than the Truth; since for the rest, as
+the Publisher of them observes, they are in many places imperfect, and
+uncorrect, by having never been reviewed; and so may be justly liable to
+some Exceptions of that kind: And the <em>Gallicisms</em> upon which <em>De
+Cros</em>&rsquo;s <em>Advertiser</em> says, the <em>Criticks</em> have been so severe, may
+easily discover they were not designed for the Publick in that Dress
+they have appeared. Now, tho this Pretended Answerer endeavours to
+imitate Sir <em>W. T.</em> in this Point, as well as in the use of several
+other Words which are found in the <em>Memoirs</em>, and he imagines a little
+particular; yet he has made so great a discovery in several others, that
+by consisting of two such different pieces, the whole lies too open to
+deceive. For altho such words as <em>Blunder</em>, <a name="corrE2v" id="corrE2v"></a><a class="correction" href="#cnoteE2v" title="Unclear in original"><em>Hans-en Kelder</em></a>, <em>A man of
+such a Kidney</em> with some others, may well enough become such a Scribler
+as I am, yet they are very unlike that Author&rsquo;s Expressions, and below
+his Stile.</p>
+
+<p>Another ground I have to conclude this Answer for a Counterfeit, is for
+some Quotations which I shall never suspect such a Writer as Sir <em>W. T.</em>
+would have made use of. As first, that poor Line, <em>Canes qui latrant</em>,
+&amp;c. which looks like an <em>English</em> Proverb translated into very bald
+<em>Latin</em>. Then (to mention no more of them) another Quotation as unlike
+as the first, from Mr. <em>Samuel Johnson</em>, which agrees very little with
+that Author&rsquo;s way, who is observed in all he writes, to be very tender
+in medling with controverted Points of State and Government.</p>
+
+<p>Besides, This whole Pamphlet, tho it must be confess&rsquo;d to be ingenious,
+and written with a great deal of Wit, yet that very strain of <em>Witting</em>
+it so much, and running things into Ridicule, makes it look very
+different
+<span class="pagebreak" title="37">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="E3r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E3r" id="Sig_E3r"></a>
+from any thing we have yet seen of Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s Writings: And
+I observe in several places of the <em>Miscellanea</em>, this very vein is
+taken notice of for a thing of <em>pernicious Consequence to Learning and
+good Manners</em>; so that if Sir <em>W. T.</em> be really possessed of such a
+Talent, he keeps it very much to himself, and must be allowed for the
+best Disguiser of it in the World, through all he has published; which
+would make his Readers think that he intended to pass rather for a Wise
+and Good Man, than for a Witty.</p>
+
+<p>Another sufficient Reason for me to reject this Answer, is, That it
+makes Sir <em>W. T.</em> grant in some kind, the severest of <em>de Cros</em>&rsquo;s
+unreasonable Slanders, of <em>failing in his Fidelity to his Master</em>; and
+to defend himself in it, by excusing it from Examples of that kind;
+which in my Opinion, would be to lay himself needlesly open to Censures,
+that I suppose, he has not deserved; and would shew such a want of
+Judgment in him, as I shall not be apt to believe from any other
+Writings but his own, and better attested than I find it here.</p>
+
+<p>I shall add to all these, what I observed in an Advertisement before the
+First Part of the <em>Miscellanea</em>, where the Bookseller tells the Reader
+from the Author, that thenceforth he would never Publish any thing
+without putting his Name to it, which not finding before this Pamphlet,
+was another Reason to conclude it a supposititious Piece. All which put
+together, makes me believe Sir <em>W. T.</em> was no more the Author of this
+Answer, than of <em>Tully</em>&rsquo;s <em>Offices</em>.</p>
+
+<p>When I had satisfied my self in this Point, it was not easy for me to
+find out what the Writer of this Answer should mean by taking so much
+pains to make it pass for Sir <em>W. T</em>&rsquo;s; which seems to me a very new way
+of Writing; and whereof I cannot give any other instance besides this,
+from what has occured in my Reading or Conversation. I know very well,
+that several Ancient Pieces which go under great Author&rsquo;s
+<span class="pagebreak" title="38">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="E3v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E3v" id="Sig_E3v"></a>
+Names, are
+found by the Learned Criticks of these latter Ages, to have been
+spurious; yet they were never born till long after the Death of the
+supposed Fathers. I know likewise, that there have been several Laws
+made in <em>France</em>; one, I am sure, in this present Century, against the
+Printing any Books, under severe Penalties, without setting the Author&rsquo;s
+Name to them, and their known Name, because some having two Names, one
+by which they were commonly called, tho the other perhaps were the
+particular Name of their Family; some Persons disguised their Writings
+under the Name that was little known, tho it might be their own: To so
+nice and cautious Cares the Laws there thought fit to descend upon this
+matter. I remember there was an Ingenious Discourse Printed within these
+few years in <em>France</em>, upon the Custom of using borrowed or disguised
+Names in the Publishing of Books: But in the Censures and Complaints
+that Author makes of this ill Custom, I did not take notice of any one
+Example he mentions, further than of such Books as had been published
+under Names of Persons dead, or else under such as were wholly
+fictitious, and made at their own pleasures; Which last has peradventure
+appear&rsquo;d in most Ages and Countries where Printing has been used, but
+toucht no Man farther than a Satyr of <em>Don Quixot</em>, or <em>Francion</em>, or
+any such like. But I have never observed, nor heard of any Example of
+this kind besides this Answer, where the Author, whose Name was
+borrowed, was alive, and in the same Kingdom, and so avowedly with the
+Name of a known Bookseller in the Title-page.</p>
+
+<p>Whatever the intention may have been in the Writer, whether wholly
+innocent, or a little interessed to give Vogue to his Pamphlet, or in
+considering the Bookseller&rsquo;s profit by making it pass for an Author&rsquo;s,
+whose Name he knew would <a name="corrE3v" id="corrE3v"></a><a class="correction" href="#cnoteE3v" title="Unclear in original"><em>help it off the</em></a> better; yet I cannot but
+apprehend the Example of it ill, and
+<span class="pagebreak" title="39">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="E4r">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E4r" id="Sig_E4r"></a>
+the Consequences of it may be
+worse, if it should fall into Common practice; for by this way of
+Writing and Publishing either Books or Pamphlets, any Man may be made a
+publick Defamer of himself at another Man&rsquo;s pleasure, and not only <em>so</em>,
+but to accuse himself of any Crime which the Rigour of our Laws requires
+no man to do. As far as my Thoughts will reach, I do not conceive why it
+should not be as bad to counterfeit a Book as a Bond; and to wrong a Man
+in his Reputation, as great an Injury, as to cheat him of his Money:
+This must be the reason why Slander and Scandal are as sufficient a
+ground to maintain an Action in Law, as Damage and Battery: Nothing is
+an injury any farther than it is taken, and hurts a Man more or less, as
+he is sensible of it. Now, tho it may be true, that in every Age there
+may be more than <em>Nine Worthies</em> who put a greater value on their Money
+than their Honour, yet there may be every where, and at all times, some
+<em>silly Foplings</em>, who do quite the contrary; and I know no reason, why
+they should not pretend to be safe in the Possessions they most value,
+as well as the others; nor why the Law should not take some care of such
+poor Innocents. Nor further, can I find out why a <em>Stationer</em> should not
+be punisht for <em>Forgery</em>, as well as a <em>Notary</em> or <em>Scrivener</em> may be.
+Whether I am too serious or no, upon a Subject that may appear trivial
+at first sight, or whether such a Trifle be worth any legal Provisions
+against it, I am sure, <em>Ha Nugæ seria ducunt in Mala</em>; and that &rsquo;tis at
+least an <em>Edg-tool</em> which ought not to be plaid with.</p>
+
+<p>I could never well comprehend the true reason, why it should be such a
+disgrace to be a <em>Cuckold</em>, or why one Person should suffer for
+another&rsquo;s fault, how nearly soever related to him: But I can very easily
+apprehend the Injury of it, which is, that one Man should be out upon
+fathering another Man&rsquo;s Children, or at the best should be in danger of
+it; and this seems to be
+<span class="pagebreak" title="40">&nbsp;</span><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a>
+<span class="siginvis" title="E4v">&nbsp;</span><a name="Sig_E4v" id="Sig_E4v"></a>
+meant by the word, which at first was
+intended, that a Man was <em>Cuckoo&rsquo;d</em>, that is, dealt with as <em>Cuckoos</em>
+are said to do with other Birds, by laying their Eggs in their Nests,
+and thereby making them hatch and bring up young Ones that are none of
+their own, (for this is the best Etymology I can find out for a word so
+commonly used). Now, the same Injury may be as sensible in what concerns
+the Children of the Brain (as Books have been call&rsquo;d) which may be as
+lawful and as natural Issues, and some Parents may be as fond of them,
+and as much concerned about them. And tho it pass for no Crime for
+People to expose their Children when they have no mind to own them, or
+think they are not able to maintain them, and they may be content any
+body else should father them that will; yet this is an Office no body
+would be forc&rsquo;d upon undertaking, how little soever it may cost them,
+and how innocently soever it may have been intended.</p>
+
+<p>I could not forbear to make this Reflection upon this Subject, if it
+were for nothing else but to make good my Profession in the Title-page,
+of being <em>A Lover of Truth</em>.</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center"><em>FINIS.</em></p>
+
+
+<div class="transnote">
+<h4><a  name="corrections" id="corrections"></a>
+Transcriber's notes</h4>
+
+<p>
+<a href="#Page_9">Page 9</a></p>
+<p class="cnote"><a name="cnoteB1r" id="cnoteB1r"></a>
+<a href="#corrB1r">Page 9</a>: there are no pages numbered 7 or 8 in the original.
+The numbers on the signatures indicate that there are no missing pages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="#Page_11">Page 11</a></p>
+<p class="cnote"><a name="cnoteB2r" id="cnoteB2r"></a>
+<img src="images/corr11.png" width="185" height="30" alt="and says." style="float: right;" />
+"<a href="#corrB2r">forgets himself again, and says.</a>" Possible error for
+"forgets himself again, and says,". No change made.
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+<a href="#Page_20">Page 20</a></p>
+<p class="cnote"><a name="cnoteC2v" id="cnoteC2v"></a>
+<img src="images/corr20.png" width="178" height="30" alt="Memoirs p. " style="float: right;" />
+"<a href="#corrC2v">Memoirs p.</a>" page number is missing in the original.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="#Page_25">Page 25</a></p>
+<p class="cnote"><a name="cnoteD1r" id="cnoteD1r"></a>
+<img src="images/corr25.png" width="221" height="23" alt="Pulick Employments" style="float: right;" />
+"Never to enter again into <a href="#corrD1r">Publick</a> Employments"
+changed from "Pulick".
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+<img src="images/corr29.png" width="221" height="57" alt="whenever they read them" style="float: right;" />
+<a href="#Page_29">Page 29</a></p>
+<p class="cnote"><a name="cnoteD3r" id="cnoteD3r"></a>
+"<a href="#corrD3r">whenever they read them,</a>" comma added.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="#Page_36">Page 36</a></p>
+<p class="cnote"><a name="cnoteE2v" id="cnoteE2v"></a>
+<img src="images/corr36.png" width="270" height="33" alt="Hans-en Kelder" style="float: right;" />
+"<a href="#corrE2v">Hans-en Kelder</a>" is unclear in the original image.
+The phrase means "Jack in the Box" or "Child in the womb"
+(Nathan Bailey's Canting Dictionary, 1736).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="#Page_38">Page 38</a></p>
+<p class="cnote"><a name="cnoteE3v" id="cnoteE3v"></a>
+<img src="images/corr38.png" width="198" height="31" alt="help it off" style="float: right;" />
+"<a href="#corrE3v">help it off</a>" is unclear in the original image.
+
+</p>
+
+</div>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately
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+Title: Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately Published
+       One called, A Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the
+       Memoirs of Christendom, And the Other, An Answer to that
+       Letter.
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Release Date: June 18, 2010 [EBook #32879]
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+  This etext contains:
+  - Reflections on a Letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the
+    Memoirs of Christendom
+  - Reflections upon an Answer to the Letter from Monsieur De Cros
+
+  The spelling and hyphenation in the original are erratic. No
+  corrections have been made other than those listed at the end of
+  the etext.
+
+
+
+
+    REFLECTIONS
+
+    UPON
+
+    TWO PAMPHLETS
+
+    Lately Published;
+
+    _One called_, A LETTER from
+    Monsieur _de Cros_, concerning the
+    MEMOIRS of _Christendom_.
+
+    And the Other,
+
+    An ANSWER to that Letter.
+
+    Pretended to have been written by
+    the Author of the said MEMOIRS.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    By a Lover of Truth.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    IMPRIMATUR,
+
+
+    _April_ 21st.
+    1693.               EDWARD COOKE.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    _LONDON._
+
+    Printed for _Richard Baldwin_, near the
+    _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_. 1693.
+
+
+
+
+    REFLECTIONS
+    ON A
+    LETTER
+    From Monsieur _de Cros_, &c.
+
+
+
+
+I Was very glad when I heard that one Monsieur _de Cros_ had published
+an Answer to a late Book, Entituled, _Memoirs of what pass'd in
+_Christendom_, &c._ And could not but expect some considerable
+Discoveries in those Affairs and Intriegues, from a person who thought
+himself a Match for Sir _W. T._ Besides, I hoped it might have had this
+good Effect, to move that Author in his own defence to oblige us once
+more with his Pen. This was sufficient to make me buy this Pamphlet
+greedily, as I do most others; which tho very often they entertain one
+ill enough, yet serve in general for some amusement amidst the Noise and
+Hurry of a dirty Town.
+
+But when I had read it over, I soon found my self deceived in the first;
+and have now lost all hopes of the other, since I have waited above two
+months in that Expectation, whereas two days were sufficient, had that
+Author thought fit to take any notice of such a Trifle, which makes me
+now despair of it; and as I perceiv'd the Town never looked for any such
+thing; so all I meet with, either in Coffee-houses, or Ordinary
+Conversation, have such despicable Thoughts of this Letter, that I now
+begin to find I never had any reason to expect it at all. For in truth,
+the whole Letter seems to me only design'd to _Banter_ Fools or
+Children, and to be written by a man who had lost all Respect to the
+Publick, whom he thinks fit to entertain with such wretched stuff, which
+certainly he could not pretend should either please or instruct any
+Reader, who had not as much malice, and as little Wit as himself. For
+besides Railing and Foul Language, his whole Letter from the beginning
+to the end is an errant Sham, and has nothing in it. I was therefore in
+vain to imagine Sir _W. T._ would descend so much below himself, to take
+any notice of so fulsome a Libel; and I do not believe either _de Cros_,
+or the kind Writer of the _Advertisement_ after the Letter, did ever
+expect it.
+
+For first, If Sir _W. T._ be such a Philosopher, as he seems to be by
+his _Essay upon the Gardens of _Epicurus__, as well as several others;
+he must infinitely contradict the Ideas those Writings have given of
+him, if so sordid and insipid a Trifle as this Letter of _de Cros_ could
+have any power to provoke him, tho it were but to scorn it.
+
+Besides, if he be so proud a Person, as _De Cros_ is pleased to call
+him; certainly, while he remembers his own Quality, and the great
+Employments he has passed through with so much Honour to himself, and
+such important Services for his Prince and Country, such thoughts will
+never allow him to enter the Lists with one, who to say no more, has
+owned himself in his Letter to be _Un Moin Defroque_, which none who
+understand the least of the _French_ Tongue, need be told, is the lowest
+and most profligate Character that can be given a Man. I suppose the
+reason of it is, because he who has once broke his Vow to God, there are
+People enough apt to believe he will never regard any he makes to them.
+
+A third Reason is, Because his Letter is indeed unanswerable; and
+Prosecution would be as little necessary to him, as to one that pleads
+guilty at the Bar; for he owns over and over, every Line of the Charge
+that he pretends is laid against him; says not one word, either to
+defend or extenuate it; does not contradict the least point in the
+Memoirs he pretends to Answer; nor lays one ill Action to Sir _W. T_'s
+Honour. So that there remains but one way to Answer this Letter with any
+Rule or Justice, and that is, to gather all the cleanly Language one can
+pick up at _Billingsgate_, and bring it in its natural Reeking to the
+Press, and so make up a short, but sweet Pamphlet, set out with a
+Bead-roll of such Pearls, as are always to be found among the
+Oyster-women.
+
+A fourth Reason is, Because that Book which goes by the Name of Sir
+_W. T_'s _Memoirs_, as one sees by the Publishers Preface, has been
+printed wholly without his Knowledg or Consent: For in the very first
+lines he plainly intimates he had his Copy from no Man then alive: And
+a known Writer since, who pretends to have inquired into that matter,
+assures us, the Publisher had it lying by him several years before it was
+published; nor can I find by my own best Inquiries, that Sir _W. T._ has
+ever own'd it. And tho I may believe, like others, that he must have
+writ them, by that excellent Stile, that strength and clearness of
+Expression, as well as by that Spirit and Genius which so brightly
+shines through the whole, and is peculiar to that Author above others of
+his Age; and besides, because I suppose no Man else was capable of
+knowing or discovering so much of these Transactions; yet since they
+have stollen into Publick against his will and his privity, it is not to
+be imagined he should defend a thing he does not reckon as his own; and
+therefore if _de Cros_, or the honest _Translator_, had found themselves
+injured, their resentments had been more justly levelled at the
+Publisher, than the supposed Author.
+
+By all these Reasons, 'tis easy to believe, that a Person of Sir
+_W. T_'s Character and Honour, and whose Reputation is so firmly
+established in the World, will never fall so low to oppose himself
+against the Scurrilous Reproaches of so foul-mouth'd a Railer; 'twould
+be like a set Duel between a strong Man well-arm'd, and a poor wretched
+Cripple. The Quarrel therefore will be more properly turn'd over to the
+rest of Mankind; for tho the venom of _this_ be too weak to reach where
+it aim'd; yet all those who have any regard for Truth or Justice, for
+Learning or Virtue, or even for good Manners and common Civility, must
+think themselves concern'd in a Quarrel, where they find so notorious a
+breach of them all.
+
+'Tis fit therefore so ignominious a Libeller should be exposed in his
+proper Colours, of an infamous, slandring, and unprovok't Railer; which
+tho his own Letter has plentifully done, yet 'twill be very proper to
+point to several places in it, where it is most remarkable.
+
+For my own part, I will confess, I have been a great Reader of all Sir
+_W. T_'s Writings, and perhaps may have doated on some of them,
+especially, _That Immortal Essay on Heroick Virtue_, as one Writer since
+has deservedly called it; and that other upon _Poetry_, and even on this
+of the _Memoirs_. And finding Common Fame, wherever I had met it, agrees
+so well with the Picture these Pieces had given me of him, I will own to
+have had a very great Honour for the Author, as well as for his Books,
+and could not but esteem both a great deal the more for this Letter of
+_de Cros_, when I found that the triple-corded Malice of the _Writer_,
+the _Translator_, and the _Advertiser_, had not given one lash either to
+the Honour of the Person, or the truth of his Books. And all this put
+together, has in very truth given me so much Spight and Indignation,
+that I could not refrain entring on the _Pamphletiers_ Trade, which I
+never did before, nor ever thought I should have done at all: And but
+for this Provocation, could have been very well satisfied to have lived
+on without the itch of seeing how I look in Print; so that I may truly
+say for this, as the Poet does for his Verses,
+
+    _----Facit Indignatio Versus._
+
+Before I enter upon observing what _de Cros_ says concerning Sir _W. T._
+which takes up the greatest part of his Letter, and leaves him either no
+Room, or no Memory for the _Memoirs_ he pretends to Answer; I shall
+first examine what he speaks of himself, and in his own defence, against
+what he takes himself to be charged with.
+
+He begins, p. 10. _There arrived_ (says he, quoting the _Memoirs_) _at
+that time from _England_, one whose Name was _de Cros__. Upon this he
+falls immediately into a Scurrilous Chafe. Now, one would wonder what
+should make the Man so offended to be called by his own Name, or what
+would have become of Sir _W. T._ if he had call'd him out of his Name,
+which is indeed commonly thought an injury, but not the other, as ever I
+heard of before; yet he reckons it a terrible one to himself and his
+Family, which he tells us is _a good one_; I know not whether he means
+the _de Cros_'s, or the _Monks_. The first I must confess, I never heard
+of in _France_, but the other is indeed a great one abroad, and a good
+one at home. But whatever he would have us think of the Goodness of his
+Family, I will never believe, by what little understanding I have of
+Heraldry, that any _Gentleman_ would either write such a Letter, or
+_Translate_ it, tho it were only out of the common Respect that is due
+to the Memory of a Great King, whose Person Sir _W. T._ has so often
+represented, and in so high a Character.
+
+But to proceed; _That he was formerly a _French_ Monk_ (as the Memoirs
+call him), he confesses, and owns besides (tho with a great deal of
+ill-will) that _He changed his Frock for a Petticoat_: For, tho he
+denies it positively, _p. 11._ yet five Lines after, he has these
+words; _There was too great advantage to throw off my Frock for the
+Petticoat I have taken, not to do it; it is a Petticoat of a _Scotch_
+Stuff_, &c. I am glad it is of one so good as he mentions, and wish it
+were large enough to cover all his Shame: But whatever he says in the
+same Page, too malicious to be taken notice of here, of _Princesses, who
+have quitted the Veil for the Breeches_ (tho, in that it self, I believe
+he is mistaken) yet all this will never serve to wipe off the Ignominy
+of _Un Moin Defroque_: Upon which I shall only add, That the Marriage of
+a Monk, when stripp'd of his Frock, is not thought likely to mend the
+matter: And I believe men of all Religions will agree in the Opinion,
+That if a Monk leaves his Frock, he ought to do it for a _Gown_, rather
+than for a _Petticoat_; and if he leaves the Orders of one Church,
+should in decency continue in the Orders of that Church to which he
+professes himself converted.
+
+As to his being a _Swedish Agent_, tho he is very angry the _Memoirs_
+should call him so; one cannot well discover by his Letter, whether he
+has a mind to grant it or no; however, he confesses, p. 13, 14. That
+_being Envoy from the Duke of _Holstein-Gottorp_, the Interests of his
+Master being inseperable from those of_ Sueden, _he found himself
+engaged to be very much concerned in the Interests of that Crown; and
+that Monsieur _Van Benninguen_ believed, He was intrusted with some
+Affairs from thence_. Which amounts to the very same with what the
+_Memoirs_ say, p. 335. That _he_ (de Cros) _had a Commission from the
+Court of _Sueden_ (or Credence at least) for a certain petty Agency in
+_England__. This he says, _Is very Dirty_. Alas for the cleanly
+Gentleman! one would think he was afraid of fouling his Fingers, but he
+had a great deal more need have taken care of his mouth. By the way, I
+cannot but admire at the insufferable Impudence of the _English Printer_
+or Translator, who hath in the Title Page named this man, _An
+Ambassador at the Treaty of _Nimeguen__; since in the several Accounts I
+have seen printed of that Treaty, there is not the least mention of such
+a Name any other way than in those _Memoirs_ he pretends to Answer. And
+'tis doubtless very agreeable to think, that a man who gives himself so
+_good_ a Character in his own Letter, should make so great a one in so
+August an Assembly as that is recorded to have been: And he himself in
+his whole Letter, arrogates no other besides that of Envoy Extraordinary
+from the Duke of _Holstein-Gottorp_ into _England_, who was a Prince at
+that time wholly dispossess'd of His Dominions.
+
+Another Passage in the Memoirs which he takes sadly to heart, is in the
+same _Pag. 335._ as follows: _At _London_ he had devoted himself wholly
+to Monsieur _Barillon_, the _French_ Ambassador, though pretending to
+pursue the Interests of _Sweden__: Against which he thus defends
+himself. First, Letter, _pag. 14_. He absolutely denies it; and says in
+the next, _He fell out with Monsieur _Barillon_ for three Months,
+because he diverted the King of _England_ from taking into his
+consideration the Interests of _Sweden__. And _pag. 16_. He says
+further; _That Monsieur _Barillon_ put all in practice to sift him to
+the bottom_ (concerning the _Swedish_ Affairs) _nevertheless all the
+Offers of this Ambassador proved ineffectual, and wrought nothing upon
+this man_ (meaning himself) _who if man would give credit to Sir _W. T._
+was entirely devoted to Monsieur _Barillon_, and yet Monsieur _Barillon_
+found him not to be corrupted or bribed_. All this would be an Account
+good enough of his Innocence in that point, if it had not the misfortune
+to be so ill plac'd. 'Tis indeed a good way back to the fifth Page of
+his Letter: And therefore what he says there, one may by the help of a
+little Charity, impute to the shortness of his Memory. These are his
+Words: _I have had the happiness during some years, to partake in the
+confidence of a Minister of State_, &c. And a little after; _Sir _W.
+T._ may well imagine that I did not ill improve this able Minister's
+Confidence, when he tells us, that I had wholly devoted my self to him_.
+But then how comes it, that in the same _15th_ page, where he twice
+endeavours to defend himself against this Imputation, he should make
+such a Blunder as to say, _But yet I must confess, that at such time as
+he (Monsieur _Barillon_) stickled for my Master's Interest, and that of
+_Sweden_, I was _entirely devoted_ to him_, &c.? After this; let the
+Reader judge, whether _de Cros_ does not confess at least as much, if
+not more in this Point, than the Memoirs charge him with: And it is to
+be observed from the same Book, that at the very time _de Cros_ speaks
+of, _France_ had taken into its Protection the Interests of _Sweden_,
+which it seem'd for some Months before to have very little regarded.
+
+But nothing touches him so nearly as the following Passage in the same
+_335th_ page of the Memoirs: _This man brought me a Pacquet from Court,
+commanding me to go immediately away to _Nimeguen__. Upon which, says
+he, _Pag. 16._ _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_. This
+passage has so fiercely gall'd him, that he is set a railing for six
+pages together; and the affront is, that he should be taken for an
+ordinary Courier, or Messenger. Had a dozen Wasps setled on his Tongue,
+they could not have swell'd or infus'd more Poison in it; he frets and
+foams at the mouth, and spatters so much Dirt on all sides, that it is
+not safe following him. In short, he takes it so heinously to be
+reckoned a Common Courier, that one could not have netled him more, had
+one call'd him a Post, or a Post-horse. I cannot imagine why any such
+words in the _Memoirs_, should put a man into so much passion: And for
+my part, both in this and all the rest, I see but one reason why he is
+angry; and that is, _Because he is angry_. However, against this
+grievous Imputation, he defends himself by this strong Argument; That
+_he was not sent over on purpose to deliver the Dispatch to Sir _W. T._
+but for something of greater importance, which he knows himself, and
+will not tell any body_. Wherein I think he acts very discreetly; and I
+do not doubt, but the best way to give any Reputation to his mighty
+Secrets, is to hinder them from taking Air: Tho had he done us the
+favour to discover but one of all those he boasts so much of, it would
+perhaps have been the most effectual way to raise our expectation of the
+rest. He would indeed make us believe, that in five Hours time he stay'd
+at the _Hague_, he had made some mighty Turn of State by his
+Negotiations there; which if there be any truth in it, we will grant him
+to have been not only an _Agent_, but a _Conjurer_; and from the strange
+Effect of his Conduct in that strange _Adventure of five hours_, we may
+hope one day to see a _Tragedy of that Name_, as there has been a
+_Comedy_ already. But till he thinks fit to make more important
+Discoveries, he will pardon our suspense in that modest Opinion he has
+of himself, That doubtless he should publish more just and solid
+_Memoirs_ than Sir _W. T._ if he would set about it. But I observe he
+desires _My Lord to take notice, that Sir _W. T._ confesses it was _De
+Cros_ procured this Dispatch_. I find when men are very angry, that
+Truth is the least thing they regard: For this is more than ever I could
+observe after reading those _Memoirs_ with more care and application
+than I am sure his good humour would ever permit him; and in _pag. 336._
+find these Words: _How this Dispatch by _De Cros_ was gain'd, or by
+whom, I will not pretend to determine_. Which _De Cros_ has very
+politickly thus altered, _Letter, pag. 18._ _I will not pretend to
+determine by what means, and how _De Cros_ obtained this Dispatch_. But
+_pag. 19._ he forgets himself again, and says. _As for me, tho I had the
+dispatch given me, yet he (Sir _W. T._) does not accuse me openly in
+this place of bearing any other part in this affair, than only as a
+Messenger intrusted with the Conveyance_. But I suppose he never looked
+farther than his malice would give him leave, which is usually very
+short-sighted.
+
+But, after all, 'tis not easily thought why he should lay it so much to
+heart to be called a Courier, when the whole account he gives of his
+great Negotiations (besides his being Envoy of the _Duke_ of
+_Holstein-Gottorp_) is, that he _was sent by _King Charles_ the Second
+into _Sweden_ and _Denmark_, to hasten the Passports for the Congress at
+_Nimeguen__: Which is all he tells us of his great Employments, and must
+be thought to have brought him into that intimacy and confidence he
+pretends with that great King, and for which he is pleased to make his
+Majesty such grateful Returns, and to form such a Character of him as he
+does in his Letter.
+
+For in the first place he tells us, _p. 5._ That _Mons. _Barillon_ was
+the _Primum Mobile_ of that King's conduct, which surprized all the
+World_. Which is to affirm more of him than any of his discontented
+Subjects, the pretended Patriots of that Age. For it is to assert openly
+and positively what they only pretended to suspect.
+
+Again, Soon after the King had made the Peace with _Holland_, _De Cros_
+brings his Majesty in, _p. 23._ speaking to him in these Words: _Tell
+the King my Brother_ (meaning the _French_ King) _that it is much
+against my mind, that I have made peace with these _Coquins_ the
+_Hollanders__. And then a little before the conclusion of the Peace at
+_Nimeguen_, he delivers the King speaking thus to Mons. _Shrenburn_
+concerning the _Hollanders_; _In a little time Monsieur, I will bring
+these _Coquins_ to Reason_. And in the same page he makes that Prince
+use the same Name to two great Ministers, Mons. _Barillon_, and Mons.
+_De Avaux_. The former whereof he pretends to have been the first Mover
+of all His Majesty's Councils. All which, if they be not absolute
+Untruths, as from his plentiful Gift that way, I am very much inclined
+to believe, yet are so far from shewing the _profound Respect_ the
+Writer pretends to, for the Memory of that Prince, that being put
+together, they make up this malicious Character; That a King of
+_England_ was guided in his Conduct by a _French_ Embassador; That he
+made and observed his Treaties with ill-meaning, or with ill-intentions;
+and that he treated his chiefest Confident (whom he makes to be Mons.
+_Barillon_) and another Embassador, with the greatest scorn and
+contempt.
+
+Besides, he brings this noble Prince upon the Stage, acting a mean piece
+of Dissimulation to cover his Confidence with so worthy a Person as
+Mons. _de Cros_; 'tis concerning his Dispatch so often mentioned into
+_Holland_; for being forc't to confess, that the King was angry with him
+at his return from thence; He plaisters it up with saying, p. 25. _If
+the late King of _England_ did not approve of my Conduct in the Affairs
+of _Nimeguen_, which in effect he declared in publick not to be pleased
+with, in which he plaid his part to admiration_, &c.
+
+But since we have seen the Character he gives of him as a King, let us
+observe how he Treats His Majesty as a _Mediator_, and how he Represents
+him balancing the Affairs of _Christendom_ then in his hands. First, _de
+Cros_ tells us, This Dispatch of his _was concerted with Monsieur
+_Barillon__: For tho he says, That that Ambassadour had no hand in the
+beginning of it, yet he owns him in the same place to _have part of it
+when it was concluding_; and that _Monsieur _de Ruvigny_ was dispatcht
+by the King with an Account of it to the _French Court_ the very same
+day that _de Cros_ was sent away for _Nimeguen__. And _p. 25._ He tells
+us further, That _Prince _Rupert_ askt him upon his Return, with a stern
+Countenance, If the Peace was concluded? and he answering in the
+Affirmative, the Prince cried out, O Dissimulation!_ And _p. 28._ he
+tells us, That the _Prince of _Orange (the Kings Nephew)_ writ thundring
+Letters against him; and all the Ministers of the Confederates called
+for Vengeance_, &c. Yet after all these Marks of something so very
+injurious to the _Allies_, and confidence to _France_, _The King _(says
+he, in the page last mentioned)_ laughs in his Sleeve at the Surprize,
+at the Sorrow, and Complaints of the Confederates_. Which is to give us
+just such a Character of a _Mediator_, as he did before of a _King_.
+
+I leave it to all mens Judgment, whether more villanous Slanders could
+have been broached abroad by the worst of this Prince's Enemies; and
+whether it be not a Scandal to our Country, that they should be
+translated and published in _English_. But since Monsieur _de Cros_ is
+so bold with the Sacred Memory of a Great King, for which he is yet so
+Impudent, as to profess _a most profound Respect_; What can a _Subject_
+expect, for whom he owns such a virulent Malice, and to whom he
+threatens such open Revenge.
+
+The same vein of truth and sincerity shines through the whole Letter,
+and the Author's Ingenuity is at the old pitch in what he pretends to
+rake out of the _Memoirs_ concerning several Persons in great
+Employments; as the D. of _Lauderdale_, the present E. of _Rochester_,
+Sir _Joseph Williamson_, Sir _Lionel Jenkins_, and Mons. _Beverning_.
+This _Conjurer_, in all he says of them, seems resolved to raise up the
+Spirits of the Dead, to joyn with those of the Living in the Quarrel
+with these _Memoirs_; and by such distorted Consequences, draws
+Characters of them, whereof there is no Apparition, but what he himself
+raises: So that the Characters he gives of these Persons by such false
+Deductions for Sir _W. T_'s, may justly be said to be his own.
+
+But from all I have observed in this Letter, I have wonder'd at nothing
+so much, as that impudent Vanity in the Writer, who endeavours to make
+himself and the World believe, that these _Memoirs_ were intended
+chiefly against him, whose very name is hardly twice mentioned after
+these two Pages in the whole Book, which does not pretend to give
+Characters of Persons, but only to relate things that were done, or
+words that were said; And the way to have made an answer with any
+Justice, had been to have laid Exceptions either against the one, or the
+other, whereof there is not one word in all this _Answer without any
+Answer_. However, so ridiculous is this mans Insolence, that he begins
+his Letter thus, _I have been informed of the Calumnies that Sir _W. T._
+hath caused to be printed against me_. And p. 7. _He set upon me first,
+he writes out of a Spirit of Revenge_, &c. The sensless Arrogance of
+which I cannot think of; but it remembers me of the Fly on the
+Chariot-wheel. For he would fain make it to have been a piece of Revenge
+against him, for having brought that Dispatch to the _Hague_; and yet he
+lays it much to heart, that in that Affair he should only take him for a
+_Messenger_. And this indeed is to make him a very reasonable person,
+and like a man, that when he receives a blow, grows angry with the Stone
+by which it is given. But by all I can observe in these _Memoirs_, I do
+not find any thing which bears the least resemblance of Anger or Spleen,
+much less of Revenge against Mons. _de Cros_; but so far from it, that
+in the very Passage he lays most to heart, of the Kings calling him
+_Rogue_, the _Memoirs_ mention particularly, that His Majesty said it
+_pleasantly_, which he himself cannot forbear observing in his Letter.
+
+Having thus long been considering how far he is provok'd, and how well
+he defends himself; 'tis time now to see how he attacks the Person whom
+he fancies his capital Enemy, and how the Play begins. 'Tis then in
+these words, _p. 1._ _I know very well that Sir _W. T._ is of great
+worth, and deserves well, and that he hath been a long time imployed,
+and that too upon important Occasions_. This is a piece indeed very much
+of a piece with all the rest. Now, in the name of wonder, what can be
+the meaning! I wot well enough, what he would be at in all the rest of
+his Letter; but the Sense, the Wit, or the Design of these sweet Lines,
+is not easy to devise. I confess, I see a good many Plays, and I believe
+I have read more, but never met before, so fair a Prologue to so foul a
+Farce. I have read somewhere of a Monster among the Ancients, with a
+Virgins face, and all beside, a Serpent; which holds exact Resemblance
+here, unless _de Cros_ should object against it, because Serpents have
+stings, and his Letter has none. However, if we will not grant him a
+_Conjurer_, as he would fain be thought, yet we cannot in Conscience
+deny him to be a _Jugler_, since the first thing he presents us with, is
+meer _slight of hand_; For he lays down a piece of _Gold_ upon the
+Table, and immediately, _Presto, 'tis gone_; and all we can see, is only
+half a dozen Pellets of _Dirt_. In short, I am not able to reach what he
+means by so whimsical a beginning, and of so different a piece from
+every word that follows; unless that being resolved to say nothing
+afterwards, which any body would believe, he thought fit to entertain us
+at first with three Lines he is sure no body doubts.
+
+But, to be serious. If Sir _W. T._ be _of great worth_, If _de Cros_
+either believes it himself, or would have any body else to do so, why is
+every word that follows, so contradictory to these? If he _deserves
+well_, why is he used so very ill? Does _de Cros_ understand what a man
+of _great worth_ means? I doubt he does not, either by himself, or by
+such Company, as so much good Language in all the rest of his Letter,
+would make us believe he keeps. Can a man of _great worth_, and that
+_deserves well_, be _Vain_, _Proud_, _Revengeful_, _Ungrateful to his
+Friend_, _False to his Master_, and impertinently _Ambitious_ in his
+very Retreat from all Publick Affairs? This is indeed a very worthy, and
+a very lively Character of a Man _of worth_. But is not such stuff as
+this, just a sputtering out, _Quicquid in Buccam venerit?_ Like hot
+Porridge, that burns his Tongue; tho 'tis pretty plain, that all his
+heat proceeds from the overflowing of his Gall within, and from nothing
+without. One would think he has very well practised the old Rule of
+_Calumniare fortiter_; yet he has lamentably fail'd of the consequence,
+_Aliquid inherebit_; for all the Dirt he endeavours to fling about,
+loves its own Element, and sticks close to his own Fingers. I never knew
+so unlucky a Gamester to throw so often, and to be always out! What, not
+one hit! I think the devil's in the Dice; however, lets throw again, but
+first we'll change Dice, and if the good Morals of this Man of great
+worth will not pass, let's try our luck at his Naturals. Sir _W. T._
+(says my Gamester) _has been often and long employ'd_; but he himself
+_did not know about what_; 'twas too, _upon very important occasions_,
+but he did _not know why_, unless, because, as _de Cros_ tells us, _The
+King had an Aversion for him, and never trusted him_, how often soever
+he imployed him. This great Ambassador, to say the truth, is a very
+_Bubble_, and has as little Wit in some parts of the Letter, as Honesty
+in the other. Good Lord, how this silly World is apt to be gull'd! What
+a Cheat, and what a Jilt this common Fame is! Who would have believed
+that the Author of the _Observations on the _Netherlands__, and of the
+charming _Miscellanea_, should be such a Cully, if _de Cros_ had not
+made the discovery? but sure he could never be Author of those Books;
+doubtless he either hired some body to write them for him, or else some
+honest Bookseller like his own, had got the Copies, and set Sir _W. T_'s
+name to them. _I would to God he had been so honest to set mine in the
+stead._ But now we have heard the Charge, pray make room for the
+Evidence: Sir _W. T._ is the _proudest Man_ in the World; and what are
+the proofs, or the Instances? Why, _de Cros_ says it, and that's
+Demonstration. He is ungrateful to his Friend, and why? Because _de
+Cros_ knows it. He is false to his Master, and the Reason's plain, _de
+Cros_ pretends to believe it. He is _the most revengeful of Men_, for he
+calls _de Cros_ by his _own Name_. He is of all men _the most
+Ambitious_, and _never did man desire more to have a hand in Affairs_.
+This is beyond dispute, for _de Cros_ knows his thoughts, and tells us
+not only what he says of others, but what he thinks of himself, and
+with equal truth. This is the _Conjurer_ again, and with a witness he
+tells us further, _p. 9._ of men _whose ruin Sir _W. T._ desires at the
+bottom of his heart_; where it is not to be questioned, but _de Cros_
+has been; and to put it beyond all doubt that he was so, he says, _p.
+13._ That _Sir _W. T._ came once to render _him_ a visit at _his_
+Lodging_, and that _Mons. _Olivencrants_ the _Swedish_ Ambassador, was
+then at _his_ House_, which gives me a scruple, that the visit might be
+meant to _him_, rather than to Mons. _de Cros_. However this is all the
+instances I find of his Acquaintance with a Person whose heart he
+pretends to know so well, and with whom by all the rest of his Letter, I
+should be apt to judge he was the least acquainted with, of any man in
+the World. But to close all these Generals before we come to
+particulars; he tells us, _p. 29._ he knows something of Sir _W. T._
+upon the Subject of what passed between him and my Lord _Arlington_,
+_that makes his hair stand on end_. Alas, the poor Gentleman's in an
+Agony! Bless us all from sprights! what a puny Conjurer is this! to
+raise a Spirit that scares no body else, and run into a hole for fear of
+it himself: He has formed so terrible an Image of Sir _W. T._ in his own
+little working Noddle, that he knows not were he is, nor what he does,
+but is all in a maze. However, this I am certain, that no man alive who
+has read the rest of _de Cros_'s Letter, but will allow him to be one,
+that if he knew any thing ill of Sir _W. T._ would at least be sure not
+to tell it; we have his own word for it, p. 7. _My design is not at all,
+my Lord, to write you a Letter full of Invectives against Sir _W. T.__
+And in another place, _That _(says he)_ would not be like a Gentleman_.
+
+But yet to give him his due, and as he says, p. 7. _To let everybody see
+_he_ has means in _his_ hands to be revenged_; there is one point, and
+that alone, where he brings his Proof, lays downs his Instance, and that
+out of the _Memoirs_ themselves; 'tis designed undeniably to convince
+the World of Sir _W. T_'s Vanity, of which he could give _my Lord_ many
+instances, but at present contents himself with one, and 'tis a thumping
+one. 'Tis the following Period, which I shall quote out of the
+_Memoirs_, a little more faithfully than he does in his Letter, which I
+was so curious to observe, by thinking the word [_Clutches_] to be no
+part of Sir _W. T_'s stile, and found he had taken a great deal of
+pains, to wrest it as much as he could to his turn. It runs thus, _Mem._
+p. 30. _This I suppose gave some occasion for my being again designed
+for this Ambassy, who was thought to have some credit with _Spain_ as
+well as _Holland_, from the Negotiations I had formerly run through, at
+the _Hague_, _Brussels_, and _Aix la Chapelle_, by which the remaining
+part of _Flanders_ had been saved out of the hands of _France_ in the
+year 1668._ Now for my own part, I must confess my self so giddy a
+Reader, and of so much inadvertency, that when I read that Passage, I
+took it for a singular piece of Modesty, since the Author gives for a
+Reason, why the King chose him for his second Ambassy in _Holland_,
+because he had been formerly employed in those Countries, and not for
+any Personal Merit in himself; but _de Cros_ is so great a Stranger to
+Modesty, that we cannot blame him for not knowing it when he meets it;
+and since he has no other Accusations of this kind, I must profess, I
+can discover nothing of Vanity in the whole _Series_ of all those
+Relations, nor can reckon for such, the Author's not avoiding to speak
+of himself any more than of other Persons (when it came in his way) who
+had so great and so continual a part in the whole Course of that Story.
+In his other Works this Author I am sure makes little mention enough of
+himself; and it were to be wisht that Persons so much employ'd in
+publick Business, would tell all their own Parts as well others Mens,
+and as nakedly as he seems to do in these _Memoirs_.
+
+But the reason _de Cros_ gives us, why he would have the World believe
+him in all he says against Sir _W. T._ is, Because he is first attackt,
+and thereupon in great Passion and Rage, which will pass for an
+admirable Argument, that he designs to speak nothing but truth, and for
+a very cunning way of being believed; tho some men perhaps may think,
+that whatever is said in Passion, is but just so much of _nothing to the
+purpose_, and that it commonly makes a man in what he says or does, not
+only as peevish as a Wasp, but as blind as a Beetle. But if he will
+believe right or wrong, why will not he believe in his turn? And why is
+not he contented to _Give_ as well as to _Take_? He will not allow that
+Sir _W. T._ might several times have been Secretary of State, when Mr.
+_Montague_, and Mr. _Sydney_, who are named (in _Memoirs p._) to have
+been set on him by the Lord _Arlington_ at that time to persuade him to
+accept it, are still alive, as well as my Lord Treasurer, who is
+mentioned, _Mem. p. 273._ to have written to him by His Majesty's
+Command to come over and enter on the Secretaries Office. And _p. 385._
+'tis further added, That Sir _W. T._ received the _King's own Orders to
+come immediately over, and enter upon that Office, and to acquaint the
+Prince and States with that Resolution_; which must of course have come
+to him through my Lord _Sunderland_'s hand, who _Mem. p. 387._ is said
+to have been brought into Sir _Joseph Williamson_'s place, and his
+Lordship being likewise still alive, can easily tell, whether this be
+true or no. Therefore, why does not _de Cros_ himself, or some Friend
+for him (if he has any) enquire into the truth of these Passages which
+are told so positively, and wherein so many parties concern'd are still
+alive, tho most of them with other Titles. And indeed, tho it may be ill
+for Sir _W. T_'s private Satisfaction, that these _Memoirs_ were printed
+against his Consent, and during his Life, which it appears was never
+intended; yet nothing could defend the Truth of them so much, as that so
+many Persons are yet alive, who had so great a part in all those Affairs
+there related, who are the best and most competent Judges of the Truth;
+and I never heard that any of them have yet contradicted the least part.
+But however, since the _Monk_ has got into the _Infallible Chair_, he
+must be believed, there is no help, and we must like the _Welsh-man_,
+_Take her own word for it_. And so let him go away with all those
+apposite and choice Epithets he has given of this _most worthy_ and
+_well-deserving_ person, without where, or when, or why, or wherefore;
+For I am sure there is no way of replying to them; and he that would set
+about it, might as well resolve to write an Answer to a Leaf in
+_Textor_'s Epithets.
+
+And thus I have with much ado rid my hands of a great part of _De
+Cros_'s Rubbish, as far as it endeavours to bespatter Sir _W. T._ in his
+Morals and Intellectuals. It remains now I should observe a little what
+he says concerning his Fortunes, which seems to turn upon these two
+rusty Hinges, that make as ill a noise as all the rest; the obscurity
+from whence he was raised to all those great Employments, and his
+disgrace upon leaving them, which _De Cros_ says was immediately after
+his Return from _Nimeguen_.
+
+For my own part I must confess I am neither old enough, nor have had
+Conversation in Courts, and with Publick Affairs, to give an account how
+Sir _W. T._ came into Business, or how he went out, any further than I
+could gather from Writings and Transactions which are publick and known
+to every body; or by particular enquiries from some Friends and
+Acquaintance of my own; and it has happened, that some of them have long
+known so much of that Family, as to assure me it is a very Ancient one:
+That Sir _W. T._ was born of a very Honourable Father, who was for many
+years of the Privy Council in _Ireland_ to King _Charles_ the First, and
+King _Charles_ the Second, and was long possessed of one of the best
+Offices in that Kingdom, both for Honour and Profit; as likewise in his
+time a Member of several Parliaments in _England_: That his two younger
+Brothers are known to have lived always with plentiful Fortunes, and in
+much esteem: So that this Gentleman alone seems to have been born under
+the unluckiest Planet in the world, tho Heir to his Father's Fortune,
+and Successor to his Office, which was so considerable; yet he only of
+all his Family, was _in Obscurity_, and _lay in the Dust_ (for so the
+_French_ Letter has it) till my Lord _Arlington_ raised him out of both;
+whose beams it seems were so refulgent, as to make him shine at that
+distance his Foreign Employments carried him to. My Friends have
+likewise assured me from their own remembrance and knowledge, that Sir
+_W. T._ shined as much in a Parliament of _Ireland_ soon after the
+King's Restoration, as _De Cros_ says he shined long in his Employments
+abroad; and this was several years before he came into any Foreign
+Employments. They told me, likewise that he was very easy in his
+Fortune, not only by what he had from his _Father_, but from his _Lady_,
+to whom God be thanked (and it is very happy for her Ladyship that) _De
+Cros_ says, he has no Quarrel. By all which, and the many Employments he
+since passed through, and of which in one of his Essays he says, he
+_never sought any_; in my weak conception I should think he was a
+person, that by the Circumstances of his Humour and his Fortune, needed
+the Court less than the Court needed him.
+
+As to his going out from Publick Employments, which _De Cros_ tells us
+was upon _the King's being so ill satisfied with his Conduct and
+Management of Affairs abroad, particularly those at _Nimeguen__; that
+_he slighted him upon his return from thence, and made very little use
+of him_. I can give no other Account besides what I find of the Time and
+the manner in the _Epistle_ before the _Memoirs_; only I find, by
+comparing the Date of his Return from _Nimeguen_, with that of King
+_Charles_'s Declaration upon his dissolution of the old Council, and
+selecting a new one, that Sir _W. T._ was a Member of that new and
+select Council; and it was the Common Town-talk at that time, that this
+Declaration was writ by him, and that he was in his Majesty's Chief
+Confidence upon that surprising Resolution, which was received with such
+Applauses, Bonfires, and other expressions of Joy in the City. Besides
+all this, having had some acquaintance among _Spanish_ Merchants in
+Town, I came to know, that several of them about two years after, had
+recourse to Sir _W. T._ upon his being then declared Ambassador
+Extraordinary to the Crown of _Spain_, by the King at Council, whereof
+he himself was then a Member. All which laid together, does most
+abundantly verifie what _De Cros_ says of his being disgraced upon his
+return from _Nimeguen_. But the best account of all these Passages we
+must expect whenever he will think fit to publish the first and third
+part of the _Memoirs_, which are mentioned at the beginning and end of
+those the world has seen already. In the mean time, what little has
+happened to fall in the way of my knowledge or enquiries, may be enough
+to discover the impudent Forgery of this false Coyner, who pretends to
+counterfeit all sorts of Metals, but is so wretched a bungler, and
+performs it so grosly, that not one of them will pass. 'Twas for this
+Reason, I suppose, that the _French_ Edition of his Letter pretends to
+have been printed at _Cologne_, which I have long observed to be the
+Common Forge, or at least the Common Form of Paltry, Scurrilous Libels,
+printed in that Language; and which no Printer or Bookseller abroad dare
+set their Names to. This I cannot but mention for the Credit and
+Reputation of his honest Stationer at the _Mitre_, who I believe is the
+only Stationer in _England_ would have had the ingenuity to set the
+_Mitre_ on this _Monk_'s Head.
+
+The last precious piece of his Malice I shall take notice of, is, That
+he grudges Sir _W. T._ even the Honour of his Retreat from Publick
+Affairs, by which perhaps he has been more distinguished, than by his
+greatest Employments: But this _De Cros_ cannot allow him: No, saye he,
+_p. 8._ _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_. Alas! what a sad Fate that man falls under, that dares
+incur the displeasure of Mons. _De Cros_? or who can tell what will
+become of him? He must neither live at Court, nor at his own House, in
+publick Business, nor out of it; In Town, nor in Country: where shall
+we find a place for him? I know none but the middle Region of the Air:
+But, _It was not his love for his own Ease_, &c. _that made him decline
+his Employments_. Why? whoever informed this Conjurer it was? I am sure
+the _Memoirs_ say no such thing, but in the last Page gives us a quite
+different account; where, telling his Reasons why he excused himself, at
+his return from _Nimeguen_, from entring upon the Secretaries Office,
+are these Words: _I that never had any thing so much at heart as the
+union of my Country, which I thought the only way to its greatness and
+felicity was very unwilling to have any part in the divisions of it_.
+And towards the end: _After almost two years unsuccessful endeavours at
+some Union, or at least some allay of the Heats and Distempers between
+the King and his Parliament, I took the Resolution of having no more to
+do with Affairs of State_. Which Resolution it seems was taken about the
+beginning of the Year 1681. when he sent the King word he _would pass
+the remainder of his life like as good a private Subject as any he had_,
+&c. as is to be seen in the Epistle. Yet for all this Mons. _De Cros_,
+who knows his thoughts better than himself, or than his Actions can
+inform us, says, _Never did man desire more to have a hand in Affairs_.
+Why here he shews us the silly _Bubble_ again, and the wise way he takes
+to fulfil this impatient Desire; 'Tis by going to his House in the
+Country, where he stays five years, as he tells us in one of his Essays,
+without so much as ever seeing the Town: and since (as I am inform'd) to
+avoid so much Resort at that smaller distance from the City, he goes to
+another of his Houses of a much greater in the Country; which was an
+admirable wise Contrivance to satisfie his Longings to get again into
+Business: Truly I my self could have helpt him to a Better: For could he
+not like other men of such a craving Kidney, have still buzzed about the
+Court, knocked at every dore there, and when one was deaf and would not
+open, go to another; and at the worst have grown so troublesome, that
+some body would at last bring him into Employment, tho it were but to
+be rid of him? Or, if this Contrivance had failed, he might have herded
+among the Factious and Discontented about the Town; gone to the
+Coffee-houses, railed at the Ministers, and quarrelled with the
+Government, till they would be glad to have hired him at the expence of
+an Employment to hold his Tongue: And I am sure if he talks as well as
+he writes, he might very well have gone this way to work, and with as
+much likelihood to succeed as _Others have done, or pretend to do_. Tho
+a Common Reader would be apt to think the Author of these _Memoirs_
+might have found some other ways, either of preserving himself in
+Business, or of getting in when he was out; at least in so easy a Court
+as that of King _Charles_ the Second's is taken to have been. Or if
+these Endeavours had miscarried, he might yet have made some shift or
+other to have obtained his Desire upon such a Revolution as has since
+happened; and he is very much wronged by the common Voice of the Town,
+if he has not found it as hard to excuse himself from entring into
+Publick Employments in this Reign, as in that of the late King
+_Charles_.
+
+For my own part, I can profess with the greatest Truth in the world,
+That before this Libel of _De Cros_, I have never met with in all my
+Conversation and Reading, with the least Reproach from any man against
+Sir _W. T._ except it be in one point; Of his having made too rashly, or
+kept too obstinately, his Resolution, Never to enter again into Publick
+Employments; especially since he lives in an Age where such persons as
+he appears to be by his Writings, might be of so uncommon use and
+Advantage to his Country: This I cannot but own, I have often heard
+said, and that somewhat warmly, to his charge, and must leave it to
+himself to clear it as he can. But however, _De Cros_ it seems knows his
+thought best, and must be believed in all he says upon this Point, as
+well as the rest: And I only wish, since the Spark is so good at
+finding out what other men think, that he would take the pains to learn
+for his comfort what all men think of him: One thing I am sure is, that
+with all the Bloaches of his dirty Pencil, he has daub'd up a Picture of
+Sir _W. T._ which has top-fil'd the measure of all Forgery; _Sed Vetitum
+nihil est scheleri_, and which is as true and like the Original, as a
+man would make of this Dauber, if he should say, _De Cros_ were a very
+honest, worthy, well-natur'd, well-bred, fair-spoken, plain-dealing,
+ingenious Writer; of excellent Morals, wondrous Wit, and exact Truth.
+
+And now I have done with him, I can hardly answer it to my self why I
+ever began, or why I went about to foul my fingers with such a Subject:
+I am sure nothing could have forced me but an irresistible Impulse, and
+some natural love I bear to Vertue, to Learning, and to Truth; of all
+which I find so great a share in this Honourable person's Writings,
+which I have read so often, and with so much pleasure; and from which I
+cannot but confess to have learnt more than from all other Books I have
+read in my life; which I say after much greater and better Readers than
+my self, and yet I have been a great Porer too. All this would not
+suffer me to let _De Cros_'s Libel pass without these Reflections; for
+as to any regular Reply, it could no more be made to this, than to a
+Paper that comes with a very fair Superscription, and subscribed by some
+_Worshipful Name_, but had nothing clear through, besides long unsightly
+Scrawls and foul Blots with a Pen; and so intended for some such flam as
+your Twelve-Penny Writers use to gull those idle people with, that buy
+up all Pamphlets they meet: And since I have confess'd my self such a
+Customer, 'tis but justice I should be laughed at in my turn.
+
+After all I have writ upon this Subject, I cannot but think my Ink has
+been too white all this time; however, I have Gall enough about me to
+make it blacker at another, if ever the fit of Scribling should take me
+again; which may very well be, when I meet with another Author of so
+little _Wit_, so little _Memory_, and so little _Truth_ as _De Cros_.
+
+    _----Melius non tangere, Clamo,
+        Flebit, & insignis tota cantabitur Urbe._
+
+As to the candid Translator, I cannot forbear doing him the Justice to
+give him that part which he deserves, and belongs to him in all I said
+of _De Cros_, for his share in the Letter, by so false, and so malicious
+a Translation; nor can refuse him my approbation for a worthy Translator
+to so worthy an Author; wherein he has taken the same pains a man would
+do in smutting over a Chimny-Sweeper, or blacking over a Crier of
+Smalcoal. Which is all I shall say of him.
+
+But, for the _Advertiser_, as his Stile is much fairer, and consists
+mostly of Criticisms, so he will deserve no other than very fair and
+critical Reflections. Yet I cannot but wonder, that in the first part of
+his Advertisement, he should go about to defend the _severe or indecent
+Language_ (as he calls it) in _De Cros_'s Letter: Which sure, nothing
+could do towards a person who has so often represented a great King,
+whatever his own Merits or Demerits might have been. I am also something
+at a loss what he should mean by slandering _De Cros_ with such a Title
+as that of, _The Ingenious Author of the foregoing Letter_. For
+doubtless if the Man has any Wit, I may say of it as one did of a
+Gentleman's Courage, which another had much commended; That _he might
+have courage for ought he knew, but he had as live be damn'd as shew
+it_.
+
+The rest of his gentle _Advertisement_ consists, (as he pleases to call
+it) of _the Sentiments of the Criticks upon these Memoirs when they
+first came out_.
+
+The first whereof is, That _the Stile was too luscious and affected_. I
+confess I am not acquainted with that Term of _a Luscious Stile_, and
+cannot easily stumble upon what it means, unless it be to say, That the
+Bride is too fair, or the Grapes are too sweet. But 'tis yet harder for
+my poor Conception to find out how a Stile can be both _Luscious_ and
+_Affected_; Which latter I should have otherwise mistook for a Quality
+that had ever given a harshness to any Stile, that would not be very
+consistent with _Luscious_: And _Tacitus_ has not escaped the Imputation
+of being both harsh and _Affected_, by several _Criticks_. I am afraid
+the Gentleman's Mouth might have been a little out of taste by reading
+these _Memoirs_; and _that_ might possibly have proceeded from some
+cholerick Humour redundant in his Stomach; which I the rather suspect
+from these words in the Beginning of his Advertisement; _As nothing more
+sensibly touches _US_, than to have our Reputation_, &c. which seem to
+insinuate, that he took himself for one of the Persons he thought
+offended by them, and _treated with too much Freedom, and too little
+Ceremony_; as he afterwards speaks of others. But if Sir _W. T_'s Stile
+be faulty, I have nothing to say; only desire, That some of the
+_Criticks_ the _Advertiser_ speaks of, will be so kind to mend it when
+they write next, whereby I think they will do a very great Honour to our
+Language. I am only sorry for those poor Booksellers who have so rashly
+undertaken the printing of his several Works, and wish they may not be
+undone after the Judgment of these severe _Criticks_ upon them. Yet to
+give them a little comfort, I must needs take notice, that all men are
+not of the same nice Palat, neither at home nor abroad: For Monsieur
+_Wiquefort_ concludes his _Memoirs of Ambassadors_, with regretting that
+there had been so few Accounts given by any of them of Foreign
+Countries; and that there were like to be fewer hereafter; _Because
+Monsieur _Temple_ is inimitable in what he has written of the_ United
+Netherlands. And among many Books and Pamphlets that mention his Works,
+I have yet seen none that does it without great Value and Approbation. I
+am sure in all the _French_ Editions of his several Works (which have
+had the luck to be still Translated into several Languages as they came
+out) the Epistles and Prefaces prefixed before them, are full of the
+greatest Honour and Applause that can be given to Writings, which pass
+so ill with the _Criticks_, this Advertiser tells us of at home; so that
+'tis possible some of these _Memoirs_ may yet go off, which I suppose
+was the chief thing intended by him that publisht them.
+
+However, let such Statesmen as _de Cros_; or such _Criticks_ as our
+_Advertiser_, or Malice and Detraction it self, say what they will of
+the _Memoirs_; I dare answer for all Scholars and Lovers of Learning,
+that they shall pay the Honour and Esteem which is, and will be ever
+justly due to the _Miscellanea_; and shall not only find what is
+pleasing and instructing, but also something that is new and surprizing
+whenever they read them, let this Author's Stile be as _Luscious_ and
+_Affected_ as it will; which is all I need say for the poor Bookseller's
+sake.
+
+The second Criticism the Advertiser mentions, is upon the Digressions,
+tho he is so good to confess himself not of their Opinion who find fault
+with them. But I wish he had made a fairer Quotation in a Line or two
+out of one of them, by which he would seem to make Sir _W. T._ say, That
+_Prince _Maurice_'s Parrot_ spoke, and askt, and answered common
+Questions like a reasonable Creature: Tho indeed he only says, That his
+_curiosity made _him_ enquire from the first hand about such a common
+Story, Of a Parrot that spoke_, &c.
+
+For my self, I must needs say, that that Digression gave me not only
+some Entertainment when I read it, but a good deal of thought since; and
+the more, because I remember one of the _Athenian Mercuries_, in Answer
+to a Question sent them upon this very Story, seem'd to allow the thing
+possible. But after all my rambling thoughts upon that Subject, I must
+leave it to better Reasoners than my self to determine, whether Speech
+and Reason are so individual, that whatever Creature has any share in
+the one, must be allow'd to partake of the other. However it be, the
+Letter I have been lately observing, has throughly convinc'd me, that
+whether a Man may _Speak_ or no, at least he may _Write_ without
+_Reason_. But this I am sure is a Digression in me, whatever it was in
+the Author of the _Memoirs_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The last _Criticism_ the _Advertiser_ mentions, is, That _in these
+_Memoirs_ there are several Persons, Eminent both for their Station and
+Quality, and some of them still alive, treated with so much Freedom, and
+so little Ceremony_. This in my slender Judgment, appears a more
+extraordinary Objection, than the other two. For I had ever imagined,
+that the very _Ratio formalis_ of a good History, or Memoirs, had been
+the _Truth_ of them, which it is impossible should ever appear without
+_great Freedom_, and _little Ceremony_, either to the Persons they
+represent, or concerning the Actions they relate. And this in my
+Opinion, gives the great and general Esteem that is deservedly put upon
+the Memoirs of _Philip de Comines_, whose Stile seems very mean and
+vulgar, but his _Freedom_ great, and _Ceremony_ very little, either with
+those two Great Princes that were his Masters, or in any Account he
+gives of Actions, or of Persons, tho many of these were probably alive
+at the time of Writing or Publishing these _Memoirs_. But in truth since
+his time, his Method has been very little pursued, and more is the pity,
+since it has made so much room, and so unworthily, for the fulsome
+Flatteries, and nauseous Panegyricks of so many Books or Prefaces as
+have over-run the Press in our Age; which not only endeavour to put
+Shams and Cheats upon Mankind; but are, I doubt, of great Mischief to
+the Interests and Concernments of those Countries where they grow. For
+let the _Criticks_ say what they please against writing Story with _too
+much Freedom_, and _too little Ceremony_, I am a little disposed to
+believe, That if there were more such _Authors_, there would not be so
+many such _Actors_, as have been so often seen upon the Publick Stages
+of the World; who, like Rooks when they are gotten to the Top-branches
+of great Trees, think only of building their own Nests as high as they
+can, and feathering them as well as they can, without any care how the
+Tree thrives under them, or whether by their Muting and Fluttering
+about, they spoil the Branches and Leaves of that Tree it self where
+they were bred, or found shelter. Peradventure such Actors would not
+have plaid such Parts upon the Stage, if they had not trusted to the
+Disguises and Masks they were in, or had suspected they would be pull'd
+off by some _plain, rough hand_, either while the Play lasts, or as soon
+as 'tis ended. For men are seldom so harden'd, as to grow totally
+careless of their Names, and their Memories, after they are dead, tho
+they may hope to escape while they are alive.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For these and some other such trivial Reasons, I must profess, I cannot
+joyn heartily with the _Criticks_ in this last Objection; but shall be
+very glad to joyn with the Advertiser in believing, or at least in
+wishing, that Sir _W. T._ would be prevailed with by the Letter, or this
+Advertisement, to take some notice himself either of the one, or the
+other, which might possibly make the Press some amends for this Scribble
+of mine; at least it would me, who should think my self very well
+rewarded by it. For whatever Passion _de Cros_, or the _Advertiser_, or
+any of those US's he speaks of in the beginning of his short Paper, may
+have against the Author, I shall ever have as much Passion for his
+Writings. And as for this of my own, I pretend to no more, than to be
+forgiven by him and other Men, because it is my first Essay, and for
+ought I yet know, it may be my last.
+
+
+
+
+    REFLECTIONS
+
+    UPON AN
+
+    ANSWER
+
+    TO THE
+
+    Letter from Mons. _De Cros_.
+
+    Pretended to be written by the Author
+    of the _Memoirs_.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    By a Lover of Truth.
+
+           *       *       *       *       *
+
+    _LONDON:_
+
+    Printed for _Richard Baldwin_, near the
+    _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_. 1693.
+
+
+
+
+    REFLECTIONS _upon an Answer to the Letter from Monsieur _De
+    Cros_. Pretended to be written by the Author of the _Memoirs_,
+    &c._
+
+WHEN the foregoing Papers were finished, and just ready for the Press, I
+was surprized to hear that Sir _W. T._ himself had thought fit (contrary
+to what I had conjectured in the first pages of those) to take publick
+notice of Mons _De Cros_'s Letter; That it was now just come out, and
+crying about the Streets: Tho I had then several surmises that it might
+be some Imposture, yet one could not well be more amazed than I was, at
+a piece of News I had so little expected, and the contrary of which I
+thought I had so well convinced both the world, and my self. Whatever I
+expected from it, I was eager enough to get it, and to read it over: My
+suspicion increased sufficiently, when I had not gone above ten Lines;
+and when I had perused it, I found my self as much disappointed, as I
+was by _De Cros_'s Letter; being throughly convinced it was a
+Counterfeit, (tho a witty one, and perhaps an innocent one too.) For
+this I found several undeniable Reasons, which I suppose any thinking
+Reader could not but observe as well as I.
+
+And first, I took notice of the _Exordium_ as a little too common and
+thredbare for that Author; and imagined a worse Writer might have been
+hard put to it, not to have found a better than, The _importunity of his
+Friends_ for writing in his own defence. Besides, I thought the disguise
+of it was something mean, and could not conceive why, if that Author had
+a mind to own it, he should chuse to do it in the _Third Person_,
+rather than the _First_.
+
+Another Reason is; That this Answerer makes him publickly own the
+_Memoirs_, which I could never hear he has yet done. Nay farther; He
+makes Him defend them in all parts; which I doubt, if he had owned them,
+he would not do it any further than the Truth; since for the rest, as
+the Publisher of them observes, they are in many places imperfect, and
+uncorrect, by having never been reviewed; and so may be justly liable to
+some Exceptions of that kind: And the _Gallicisms_ upon which _De
+Cros_'s _Advertiser_ says, the _Criticks_ have been so severe, may
+easily discover they were not designed for the Publick in that Dress
+they have appeared. Now, tho this Pretended Answerer endeavours to
+imitate Sir _W. T._ in this Point, as well as in the use of several
+other Words which are found in the _Memoirs_, and he imagines a little
+particular; yet he has made so great a discovery in several others, that
+by consisting of two such different pieces, the whole lies too open to
+deceive. For altho such words as _Blunder_, _Hans-en Kelder_, _A man of
+such a Kidney_ with some others, may well enough become such a Scribler
+as I am, yet they are very unlike that Author's Expressions, and below
+his Stile.
+
+Another ground I have to conclude this Answer for a Counterfeit, is for
+some Quotations which I shall never suspect such a Writer as Sir _W. T._
+would have made use of. As first, that poor Line, _Canes qui latrant_,
+&c. which looks like an _English_ Proverb translated into very bald
+_Latin_. Then (to mention no more of them) another Quotation as unlike
+as the first, from Mr. _Samuel Johnson_, which agrees very little with
+that Author's way, who is observed in all he writes, to be very tender
+in medling with controverted Points of State and Government.
+
+Besides, This whole Pamphlet, tho it must be confess'd to be ingenious,
+and written with a great deal of Wit, yet that very strain of _Witting_
+it so much, and running things into Ridicule, makes it look very
+different from any thing we have yet seen of Sir _W. T_'s Writings: And
+I observe in several places of the _Miscellanea_, this very vein is
+taken notice of for a thing of _pernicious Consequence to Learning and
+good Manners_; so that if Sir _W. T._ be really possessed of such a
+Talent, he keeps it very much to himself, and must be allowed for the
+best Disguiser of it in the World, through all he has published; which
+would make his Readers think that he intended to pass rather for a Wise
+and Good Man, than for a Witty.
+
+Another sufficient Reason for me to reject this Answer, is, That it
+makes Sir _W. T._ grant in some kind, the severest of _de Cros_'s
+unreasonable Slanders, of _failing in his Fidelity to his Master_; and
+to defend himself in it, by excusing it from Examples of that kind;
+which in my Opinion, would be to lay himself needlesly open to Censures,
+that I suppose, he has not deserved; and would shew such a want of
+Judgment in him, as I shall not be apt to believe from any other
+Writings but his own, and better attested than I find it here.
+
+I shall add to all these, what I observed in an Advertisement before the
+First Part of the _Miscellanea_, where the Bookseller tells the Reader
+from the Author, that thenceforth he would never Publish any thing
+without putting his Name to it, which not finding before this Pamphlet,
+was another Reason to conclude it a supposititious Piece. All which put
+together, makes me believe Sir _W. T._ was no more the Author of this
+Answer, than of _Tully_'s _Offices_.
+
+When I had satisfied my self in this Point, it was not easy for me to
+find out what the Writer of this Answer should mean by taking so much
+pains to make it pass for Sir _W. T_'s; which seems to me a very new way
+of Writing; and whereof I cannot give any other instance besides this,
+from what has occured in my Reading or Conversation. I know very well,
+that several Ancient Pieces which go under great Author's Names, are
+found by the Learned Criticks of these latter Ages, to have been
+spurious; yet they were never born till long after the Death of the
+supposed Fathers. I know likewise, that there have been several Laws
+made in _France_; one, I am sure, in this present Century, against the
+Printing any Books, under severe Penalties, without setting the Author's
+Name to them, and their known Name, because some having two Names, one
+by which they were commonly called, tho the other perhaps were the
+particular Name of their Family; some Persons disguised their Writings
+under the Name that was little known, tho it might be their own: To so
+nice and cautious Cares the Laws there thought fit to descend upon this
+matter. I remember there was an Ingenious Discourse Printed within these
+few years in _France_, upon the Custom of using borrowed or disguised
+Names in the Publishing of Books: But in the Censures and Complaints
+that Author makes of this ill Custom, I did not take notice of any one
+Example he mentions, further than of such Books as had been published
+under Names of Persons dead, or else under such as were wholly
+fictitious, and made at their own pleasures; Which last has peradventure
+appear'd in most Ages and Countries where Printing has been used, but
+toucht no Man farther than a Satyr of _Don Quixot_, or _Francion_, or
+any such like. But I have never observed, nor heard of any Example of
+this kind besides this Answer, where the Author, whose Name was
+borrowed, was alive, and in the same Kingdom, and so avowedly with the
+Name of a known Bookseller in the Title-page.
+
+Whatever the intention may have been in the Writer, whether wholly
+innocent, or a little interessed to give Vogue to his Pamphlet, or in
+considering the Bookseller's profit by making it pass for an Author's,
+whose Name he knew would _help it off the_ better; yet I cannot but
+apprehend the Example of it ill, and the Consequences of it may be
+worse, if it should fall into Common practice; for by this way of
+Writing and Publishing either Books or Pamphlets, any Man may be made a
+publick Defamer of himself at another Man's pleasure, and not only _so_,
+but to accuse himself of any Crime which the Rigour of our Laws requires
+no man to do. As far as my Thoughts will reach, I do not conceive why it
+should not be as bad to counterfeit a Book as a Bond; and to wrong a Man
+in his Reputation, as great an Injury, as to cheat him of his Money:
+This must be the reason why Slander and Scandal are as sufficient a
+ground to maintain an Action in Law, as Damage and Battery: Nothing is
+an injury any farther than it is taken, and hurts a Man more or less, as
+he is sensible of it. Now, tho it may be true, that in every Age there
+may be more than _Nine Worthies_ who put a greater value on their Money
+than their Honour, yet there may be every where, and at all times, some
+_silly Foplings_, who do quite the contrary; and I know no reason, why
+they should not pretend to be safe in the Possessions they most value,
+as well as the others; nor why the Law should not take some care of such
+poor Innocents. Nor further, can I find out why a _Stationer_ should not
+be punisht for _Forgery_, as well as a _Notary_ or _Scrivener_ may be.
+Whether I am too serious or no, upon a Subject that may appear trivial
+at first sight, or whether such a Trifle be worth any legal Provisions
+against it, I am sure, _Ha Nugae seria ducunt in Mala_; and that 'tis at
+least an _Edg-tool_ which ought not to be plaid with.
+
+I could never well comprehend the true reason, why it should be such a
+disgrace to be a _Cuckold_, or why one Person should suffer for
+another's fault, how nearly soever related to him: But I can very easily
+apprehend the Injury of it, which is, that one Man should be out upon
+fathering another Man's Children, or at the best should be in danger of
+it; and this seems to be meant by the word, which at first was
+intended, that a Man was _Cuckoo'd_, that is, dealt with as _Cuckoos_
+are said to do with other Birds, by laying their Eggs in their Nests,
+and thereby making them hatch and bring up young Ones that are none of
+their own, (for this is the best Etymology I can find out for a word so
+commonly used). Now, the same Injury may be as sensible in what concerns
+the Children of the Brain (as Books have been call'd) which may be as
+lawful and as natural Issues, and some Parents may be as fond of them,
+and as much concerned about them. And tho it pass for no Crime for
+People to expose their Children when they have no mind to own them, or
+think they are not able to maintain them, and they may be content any
+body else should father them that will; yet this is an Office no body
+would be forc'd upon undertaking, how little soever it may cost them,
+and how innocently soever it may have been intended.
+
+I could not forbear to make this Reflection upon this Subject, if it
+were for nothing else but to make good my Profession in the Title-page,
+of being _A Lover of Truth_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_FINIS._
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's notes
+
+  Page 11
+  "forgets himself again, and says." Possible error for
+  "forgets himself again, and says,". No change made.
+
+  Page 20
+  "(in _Memoirs p._)" page number is missing in the original.
+
+  Page 25
+  "Never to enter again into Publick Employments"
+  changed from "Pulick".
+
+  Page 29
+  "whenever they read them," comma added.
+
+  Page 36
+  "Hans-en Kelder" is unclear in the original image.
+  The phrase means "Jack in the Box" or "Child in the womb"
+  (Nathan Bailey's Canting Dictionary, 1736).
+
+  Page 38
+  "help it off" is unclear in the original image.
+
+
+
+
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