us, This Dispatch of his _was concerted with Monsieur
_Barillon__: For tho he says, That that Ambassadour had no hand in the
beginning of it, yet he owns him in the same place to _have part of it
when it was concluding_; and that _Monsieur _de Ruvigny_ was dispatcht
by the King with an Account of it to the _French Court_ the very same
day that _de Cros_ was sent away for _Nimeguen__. And _p. 25._ He tells
us further, That _Prince _Rupert_ askt him upon his Return, with a stern
Countenance, If the Peace was concluded? and he answering in the
Affirmative, the Prince cried out, O Dissimulation!_ And _p. 28._ he
tells us, That the _Prince of _Orange (the Kings Nephew)_ writ thundring
Letters against him; and all the Ministers of the Confederates called
for Vengeance_, &c. Yet after all these Marks of something so very
injurious to the _Allies_, and confidence to _France_, _The King _(says
he, in the page last mentioned)_ laughs in his Sleeve at the Surprize,
at the Sorrow, and Complaints of the Confederates_. Which is to give us
just such a Character of a _Mediator_, as he did before of a _King_.

I leave it to all mens Judgment, whether more villanous Slanders could
have been broached abroad by the worst of this Prince's Enemies; and
whether it be not a Scandal to our Country, that they should be
translated and published in _English_. But since Monsieur _de Cros_ is
so bold with the Sacred Memory of a Great King, for which he is yet so
Impudent, as to profess _a most profound Respect_; What can a _Subject_
expect, for whom he owns such a virulent Malice, and to whom he
threatens such open Revenge.

The same vein of truth and sincerity shines through the whole Letter,
and the Author's Ingenuity is at the old pitch in what he pretends to
rake out of the _Memoirs_ concerning several Persons in great
Employments; as the D. of _Lauderdale_, the present E. of _Rochester_,
Sir _Joseph Williamson_, Sir _Lionel Jenkins_, and Mons. _Beverning_.
This _Conjurer_, in all he says of them, seems resolved to raise up the
Spirits of the Dead, to joyn with those of the Living in the Quarrel
with these _Memoirs_; and by such distorted Consequences, draws
Characters of them, whereof there is no Apparition, but what he himself
raises: So that the Characters he gives of these Persons by such false
Deductions for Sir _W. T_'s, may justly be said to be his own.

But from all I have observed in this Letter, I have wonder'd at nothing
so much, as