ten and long employ'd_; but he himself
_did not know about what_; 'twas too, _upon very important occasions_,
but he did _not know why_, unless, because, as _de Cros_ tells us, _The
King had an Aversion for him, and never trusted him_, how often soever
he imployed him. This great Ambassador, to say the truth, is a very
_Bubble_, and has as little Wit in some parts of the Letter, as Honesty
in the other. Good Lord, how this silly World is apt to be gull'd! What
a Cheat, and what a Jilt this common Fame is! Who would have believed
that the Author of the _Observations on the _Netherlands__, and of the
charming _Miscellanea_, should be such a Cully, if _de Cros_ had not
made the discovery? but sure he could never be Author of those Books;
doubtless he either hired some body to write them for him, or else some
honest Bookseller like his own, had got the Copies, and set Sir _W. T_'s
name to them. _I would to God he had been so honest to set mine in the
stead._ But now we have heard the Charge, pray make room for the
Evidence: Sir _W. T._ is the _proudest Man_ in the World; and what are
the proofs, or the Instances? Why, _de Cros_ says it, and that's
Demonstration. He is ungrateful to his Friend, and why? Because _de
Cros_ knows it. He is false to his Master, and the Reason's plain, _de
Cros_ pretends to believe it. He is _the most revengeful of Men_, for he
calls _de Cros_ by his _own Name_. He is of all men _the most
Ambitious_, and _never did man desire more to have a hand in Affairs_.
This is beyond dispute, for _de Cros_ knows his thoughts, and tells us
not only what he says of others, but what he thinks of himself, and
with equal truth. This is the _Conjurer_ again, and with a witness he
tells us further, _p. 9._ of men _whose ruin Sir _W. T._ desires at the
bottom of his heart_; where it is not to be questioned, but _de Cros_
has been; and to put it beyond all doubt that he was so, he says, _p.
13._ That _Sir _W. T._ came once to render _him_ a visit at _his_
Lodging_, and that _Mons. _Olivencrants_ the _Swedish_ Ambassador, was
then at _his_ House_, which gives me a scruple, that the visit might be
meant to _him_, rather than to Mons. _de Cros_. However this is all the
instances I find of his Acquaintance with a Person whose heart he
pretends to know so well, and with whom by all the rest of his Letter, I
should be apt to judge he was the least acquainted with, of any man in
the World. But to close all these Generals bef