Sometime before the making of this Peace, the King talking with Monsieur _de Shrenborn_ Envoy from _Mayence_, told him also, in Relation to the _Hollanders, In a little time, Monsieur, I will bring these_ Coquins _to Reason_. Monsieur _de Barillon_ writ to the Count _d' Avaux_, the _French_ Ambassadour at the _Hague_, certain Discourses which the King had concerning the _Hollanders_. The Count _d' Avaux_ made use of this to encrease the just Suspitions of the _Estates_. He carried the Letters of Monsieur _Barillon_, to Monsieur _Fagel_. Whereupon, the _States_ made a terrible Complaint, and the King of _England_ said on this Occasion to the Duke of _Lauderdale_, that _Monsieur_ Barillon, _and the Count_ d' Avaux _were_ Coquins. Had the King called me _Coquin_, seriously, I ought not to think it any very strange thing; since he hath treated in the same manner the most powerful and wisest Republick of the World, to whom he had so great Obligations; two Ambassadours of his most Christian Majesty, of extraordinary merit, and as honest Men as _France_ ever had; and also the greatest Lords of his own Kingdom who were Authors of the Address which the Commons presented him. There is also this difference, that the King, speaking of those Lords, those Ambassadours, and the _Hollanders_, he called them _Coquins_ in anger, but when he spoke of me, he said it _pleasantly_ (according to Monsieur _T._) _and that I was a cunning_ Coquin, _more cunning than the Duke of_ York, _my Lord Treasurer, the Secretary of State_ Williamson, _and even the King himself_. Either I am much deceived, or all the Ministers of the Confederates that were then at _London_, would have been all _Coquins_ at this rate, and Monsieur _Temple_ himself, and would have deceived those who abused and deceived them. For besides, there is more credit methinks on such like Occasions, _to be a cunning Rogue_, and to pass for a more able Man than the most able Ministers of State, than to be the laughing-stock, and the Fool of a _Monk_ and a sort of Agent; Sir _William Temple_, and some others, were truly so on this occasion.