But to proceed; _That he was formerly a _French_ Monk_ (as the Memoirs call him), he confesses, and owns besides (tho with a great deal of ill-will) that _He changed his Frock for a Petticoat_: For, tho he denies it positively, _p. 11._ yet five Lines after, he has these words; _There was too great advantage to throw off my Frock for the Petticoat I have taken, not to do it; it is a Petticoat of a _Scotch_ Stuff_, &c. I am glad it is of one so good as he mentions, and wish it were large enough to cover all his Shame: But whatever he says in the same Page, too malicious to be taken notice of here, of _Princesses, who have quitted the Veil for the Breeches_ (tho, in that it self, I believe he is mistaken) yet all this will never serve to wipe off the Ignominy of _Un Moin Defroquè_: Upon which I shall only add, That the Marriage of a Monk, when stripp'd of his Frock, is not thought likely to mend the matter: And I believe men of all Religions will agree in the Opinion, That if a Monk leaves his Frock, he ought to do it for a _Gown_, rather than for a _Petticoat_; and if he leaves the Orders of one Church, should in decency continue in the Orders of that Church to which he professes himself converted. As to his being a _Swedish Agent_, tho he is very angry the _Memoirs_ should call him so; one cannot well discover by his Letter, whether he has a mind to grant it or no; however, he confesses, p. 13, 14. That _being Envoy from the Duke of _Holstein-Gottorp_, the Interests of his Master being inseperable from those of_ Sueden, _he found himself engaged to be very much concerned in the Interests of that Crown; and that Monsieur _Van Benninguen_ believed, He was intrusted with some Affairs from thence_. Which amounts to the very same with what the _Memoirs_ say, p. 335. That _he_ (de Cros) _had a Commission from the Court of _Sueden_ (or Credence at least) for a certain petty Agency in _England__. This he says, _Is very Dirty_. Alas for the cleanly Gentleman! one would think he was afraid of fouling his Fingers, but he had a great deal more need have taken care of his mouth. By the way, I cannot but admire at the insufferable Impudence of the _English Printer_ or Translator, who hath in the Title Page named this man, _An Ambassador at the Treaty of _Nimeguen__; since in the several Accounts I have seen printed of that Treaty, there is not the least mention of such a Name any other way than in those _Memoirs_ he pretends to Answer. And 'tis doubtless very agreeable to think, that a man who gives himself so _good_ a Character in his own Letter, should make so great a one in so August an Assembly as that is recorded to have been: And he himself in his whole Letter, arrogates no other besides that of Envoy Extraordinary from the Duke of _Holstein-Gottorp_ into _England_, who was a Prince at that time wholly dispossess'd of His Dominions.