Coffee-houses, railed at the Ministers, and quarrelled with the Government, till they would be glad to have hired him at the expence of an Employment to hold his Tongue: And I am sure if he talks as well as he writes, he might very well have gone this way to work, and with as much likelihood to succeed as _Others have done, or pretend to do_. Tho a Common Reader would be apt to think the Author of these _Memoirs_ might have found some other ways, either of preserving himself in Business, or of getting in when he was out; at least in so easy a Court as that of King _Charles_ the Second's is taken to have been. Or if these Endeavours had miscarried, he might yet have made some shift or other to have obtained his Desire upon such a Revolution as has since happened; and he is very much wronged by the common Voice of the Town, if he has not found it as hard to excuse himself from entring into Publick Employments in this Reign, as in that of the late King _Charles_. For my own part, I can profess with the greatest Truth in the world, That before this Libel of _De Cros_, I have never met with in all my Conversation and Reading, with the least Reproach from any man against Sir _W. T._ except it be in one point; Of his having made too rashly, or kept too obstinately, his Resolution, Never to enter again into Publick Employments; especially since he lives in an Age where such persons as he appears to be by his Writings, might be of so uncommon use and Advantage to his Country: This I cannot but own, I have often heard said, and that somewhat warmly, to his charge, and must leave it to himself to clear it as he can. But however, _De Cros_ it seems knows his thought best, and must be believed in all he says upon this Point, as well as the rest: And I only wish, since the Spark is so good at finding out what other men think, that he would take the pains to learn for his comfort what all men think of him: One thing I am sure is, that with all the Bloaches of his dirty Pencil, he has daub'd up a Picture of Sir _W. T._ which has top-fil'd the measure of all Forgery; _Sed Vetitum nihil est scheleri_, and which is as true and like the Original, as a man would make of this Dauber, if he should say, _De Cros_ were a very honest, worthy, well-natur'd, well-bred, fair-spoken, plain-dealing, ingenious Writer; of excellent Morals, wondrous Wit, and exact Truth.