What means the King then, when he says, That _I had been too cunning for them all_? There is not so much Prudence and great Abilities required in a _Courier_; it is sufficient that he be expeditious. But this Message must needs have been Honourable, to employ an Envoy extraordinary of one of the greatest Princes of the Empire, except it be what Sir _W._ hath been pleased to say, That I was so much devoted to the King; yea, and to Monsieur _Barillon_ too, and so little tender of my Master's Dignity, that I would comply with any Offices. If I were a Courier or Messenger, Monsieur _T._ hath at least done me a good Office, in representing me to be, what I would not have the Confidence to believe my self; namely, that I was an able Messenger, a Courier of the Cabinet, and very deep in the King's Trust and Confidence. For before ever Monsieur _T._ spoke of this Dispatch, which as he says, the Court sent him, to be kept as a mighty Secret, _Pensioner_ Fagel, says he, _knew all the Contents, and was quite stun'd at it_. Du Cross _had industriously informed the Deputies of the Town_, (1 Copy from Monsieur _T._) _and had told them that the two Kings were intirely agreed on the Conditions of Peace; that he had carried Orders to Monsieur_ T. _to go to_ Nimeguen, _and that at his Arrival there he would find the Letters of my Lord_ Sunderland, _the_ English _Ambassador, at_ Paris, _with all the Articles as they are concluded between the two Crowns_. Here is, I acknowledge, a very expert Messenger, very knowing in the Secret, and very forward in the work, in 4 or 5 hours time, that I had been at the _Hague_. Monsieur _T._ will be much more stun'd than Monsieur _Fagel_ was, when he shall know hereafter what past at the _Hague_, in that little time that I was there, not having discovered what it really was, neither then, nor since. It was most certainly, something of greater importance than to tell the Deputies of the Towns the Contents of the Dispatch, with which I was intrusted. And Monsieur _T._ will see cleerly one day, how far _this only incident did change the Fate of_ Christendome. _I pretend not_, adds Monsieur _T. to determine by whose Means, and how_ du Cross, _obtained this Dispatch_. And a little lower, _All that I could learn at Court, about this matter, was, that his Orders were made up one morning, in an hours time, at the Dutchess of_ Portsmouths _apartment, by the intervention of Monsieur_ Barillon. It's pity, that an _English_ Ambassadour, that all the King his Master's Council (if one can believe it) that a Man, who if he had pleased himself, might have been several times Secretary of State, should be so little informed, I will not say during his absence, while he remained at the _Hague_, and at _Nimeguin_, but even since his return into _England_, of what past there, and chiefly in that very affair, wherein Monsieur _T._ was more exercised than in any other Business that he ever undertook.