But how he could be know it, since neither the Duke of _York_ nor my Lord Treasurer, nor hardly the King himself (if we may believe Monsieur _T._) knew any thing of it; And _that these Orders were made in one morning, in an hours time, at the Dutchess of_ Portsmouths _Apartment, by the Interception of Monsieur_ Barillon. Observe now, if you please, my Lord, the Malice of Monsieur _T._ in Relation to Monsieur _Williamson_, on whom he would give in this place, the Character of Perfidy, as he hath done in diverse other parts of his Memoirs. Monsieur _T._ ought to have had at least, some respect for the King, whose Orders Monsieur _Williamson_ did Execute. _I never talkt of it_, says Monsieur _T. to the Secretary of State_ Williamson, as if he would lay that he was sufficiently perswaded that Monsieur _Williamson_ was a Man altogether for _France_, and that he was intirely devoted as well as my self, to Monsieur _Barillon_, and that he was the Author of this Dispatch. Is it not clear that Monsieur _T._ would make us imagine that Monsieur the _Chevalier Williamson_, Secretary of State, the _French_ Ambassador, and the Dutchess of _Portsmouth_ promised these Orders. As for me, tho' I had the Dispatch given me, yet he does not accuse me openly in this place of bearing any other part in this Affair, than only as a Messenger entrusted with the Conveyance. And not only so, but I never went to the Dutchess of _Portsmouths_ Lodgings, she having an irreconcilable aversion for me, and I for her. Can there be a greater absurdity than this? To endeavour to perswade his Readers that the most important affair of that time, on which depended (says Monsieur _T._) _The Fate of Christendom was concluded and made up, in one hours time, in the apartment of the Dutchess of_ Portsmouth, _by the Intervention of Monsieur_ Barillon. Monsieur _T._ is accustomed so little to spare the King's Reputation, that he fears not on this occasion, to prostitute it, in a strange manner. He does not only charge him with partiality and connivance, in suffering _Valentiennes_, _Cambray_, St. _Omer_, and several other places in _Flanders_, to be taken, without Murmur or Opposition; But the King of _England_ obliged as much as could be, in the Quality of a Mediator, and more through the Interest of his Kingdoms to procure the Repose of Christendom, yet corrupted by the _French_ Ambassadours, and by the Charms of a Mistress, Sacrifices all _Europe_, and his own Estate, to a Power that is naturally an Enemy to _England_. And this without Ceremony, in an hours time, without the advice of his Council, and hides himself in the Apartment of a Woman, as if he was sensible that he went about an action the most unworthy of the Majesty of a Prince, and the most opposite to the Felicity of his People that could be. For what other Construction can any one make of what Monsieur _T._ says, and can any man conclude, otherwise when he reads this worthy passage in his Memoirs?