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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: 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] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REFLECTIONS *** + + + + +Produced by Louise Pryor, Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + Transcriber's note + + 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 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. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Reflections upon Two Pamphlets Lately +Published, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REFLECTIONS *** + +***** This file should be named 32879-8.txt or 32879-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/8/7/32879/ + +Produced by Louise Pryor, Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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