he done us the
favour to discover but one of all those he boasts so much of, it would
perhaps have been the most effectual way to raise our expectation of the
rest. He would indeed make us believe, that in five Hours time he stay'd
at the _Hague_, he had made some mighty Turn of State by his
Negotiations there; which if there be any truth in it, we will grant him
to have been not only an _Agent_, but a _Conjurer_; and from the strange
Effect of his Conduct in that strange _Adventure of five hours_, we may
hope one day to see a _Tragedy of that Name_, as there has been a
_Comedy_ already. But till he thinks fit to make more important
Discoveries, he will pardon our suspense in that modest Opinion he has
of himself, That doubtless he should publish more just and solid
_Memoirs_ than Sir _W. T._ if he would set about it. But I observe he
desires _My Lord to take notice, that Sir _W. T._ confesses it was _De
Cros_ procured this Dispatch_. I find when men are very angry, that
Truth is the least thing they regard: For this is more than ever I could
observe after reading those _Memoirs_ with more care and application
than I am sure his good humour would ever permit him; and in _pag. 336._
find these Words: _How this Dispatch by _De Cros_ was gain'd, or by
whom, I will not pretend to determine_. Which _De Cros_ has very
politickly thus altered, _Letter, pag. 18._ _I will not pretend to
determine by what means, and how _De Cros_ obtained this Dispatch_. But
_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