Certain it is, that this Dispatch was made up by Monsieur _Williamson_, and by the Kings Order. And since the King was pleased to avoid opening his mind hereon to Monsieur _T._ giving him no other answer, but that I had been _more cunning than all of 'em_; Monsieur _T._ might possibly Address himself to Monsieur _Williamson_, who, it may be, might tell him, _by whose means, and how_ Du Cross _had obtained this Dispatch_. 'Tis plain that Monsieur _T._ despairs of penetrating into this Affair; that he knows not where about he is when he speaks of it; and that he only seeks to blacken the Reputation of the King and his Ministers. If the Peace of _Aix la Chapelle_ is his Favourite, because he hath the Vanity to believe it to be intirely his own work; 'tis easie seen that the Peace of _Nimeguen_ is his Aversion, because he is ashamed to have had so small a Part in it as he had, and that the most glorious part of his Life is not to be found in that Negotiation. I would have this Complaisance for Monsieur _T._ though he treats me so ill; I would, at least, in some part, draw him out of this great incertainty, on the subject of the Dispatch which I brought him. He is deceived, when he imputes this Resolution to the Intrigues and Perswasions of _France_. It was neither managed, nor taken, nor dispatcht, at the Dutchess of _Portsmouth_'s; nor was it by the means or intervention of Monsieur _Barillon_. That Ambassadour had no part in it, but on the very Instant when the affair was concluding. He was not so much as present at the Expedition, as he had not been at any time at the Deliberations. The Marquiss of _Ruvigny_, the Son, carryed the first News to the King, his Master, the same day that I parted for _Nimeguen_. Monsieur _Williamson_ knew well what was contained in the Dispatch to Monsieur _T._ in which there was nothing very mysterious. But he was never privy to the secret of the Negotiation, and tho' he was present when I took my leave of the King in Secretary _Coventry_'s Office, yet he was then ignorant of the true subject of my Voyage, and perhaps he never knew it. The King was not at all precipitate, and the affair was not concluded and dispatcht in an hours time. It was treated on, and deliberately considered near Three weeks. There was time given to the Ambassadours of _Swedeland_ to resolve themselves, and make their Answer. The King's design was doubtless aimed for the good of _Europe_, and the publick tranquility, but in truth, he had not in his Eye, nor did he certainly believe _that happy Fate of Christendome_, for which Monsieur _T._ labours so earnestly in consort with some particular Persons, Enemies to the State, Seditious, and Disturbers of the Publick Repose.