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.

Besides, he brings this noble Prince upon the Stage, acting a mean piece
of Dissimulation to cover his Confidence with so worthy a Person as
Mons. _de Cros_; 'tis concerning his Dispatch so often mentioned into
_Holland_; for being forc't to confess, that the King was angry with him
at his return from thence; He plaisters it up with saying, p. 25. _If
the late King of _England_ did not approve of my Conduct in the Affairs
of _Nimeguen_, which in effect he declared in publick not to be pleased
with, in which he plaid his part to admiration_, &c.

But since we have seen the Character he gives of him as a King, let us
observe how he Treats His Majesty as a _Mediator_, and how he Represents
him balancing the Affairs of _Christendom_ then in his hands. First, _de
Cros_ tells