_pag. 19._ he forgets himself again, and says. _As for me, tho I had the dispatch given me, yet he (Sir _W. T._) does not accuse me openly in this place of bearing any other part in this affair, than only as a Messenger intrusted with the Conveyance_. But I suppose he never looked farther than his malice would give him leave, which is usually very short-sighted. But, after all, 'tis not easily thought why he should lay it so much to heart to be called a Courier, when the whole account he gives of his great Negotiations (besides his being Envoy of the _Duke_ of _Holstein-Gottorp_) is, that he _was sent by _King Charles_ the Second into _Sweden_ and _Denmark_, to hasten the Passports for the Congress at _Nimeguen__: Which is all he tells us of his great Employments, and must be thought to have brought him into that intimacy and confidence he pretends with that great King, and for which he is pleased to make his Majesty such grateful Returns, and to form such a Character of him as he does in his Letter. For in the first place he tells us, _p. 5._ That _Mons. _Barillon_ was the _Primum Mobile_ of that King's conduct, which surprized all the World_. Which is to affirm more of him than any of his discontented Subjects, the pretended Patriots of that Age. For it is to assert openly and positively what they only pretended to suspect. Again, Soon after the King had made the Peace with _Holland_, _De Cros_ brings his Majesty in, _p. 23._ speaking to him in these Words: _Tell the King my Brother_ (meaning the _French_ King) _that it is much against my mind, that I have made peace with these _Coquins_ the _Hollanders__. And then a little before the conclusion of the Peace at _Nimeguen_, he delivers the King speaking thus to Mons. _Shrenburn_ concerning the _Hollanders_; _In a little time Monsieur, I will bring these _Coquins_ to Reason_. And in the same page he makes that Prince use the same Name to two great Ministers, Mons. _Barillon_, and Mons. _De Avaux_. The former whereof he pretends to have been the first Mover of all His Majesty's Councils. All which, if they be not absolute Untruths, as from his plentiful Gift that way, I am very much inclined to believe, yet are so far from shewing the _profound Respect_ the Writer pretends to, for the Memory of that Prince, that being put together, they make up this malicious Character; That a King of _England_ was guided in his Conduct by a _French_ Embassador; That he made and observed his Treaties with ill-meaning, or with ill-intentions; and that he treated his chiefest Confident (whom he makes to be Mons. _Barillon_) and another Embassador, with the greatest scorn and contempt.