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