ore we come to
particulars; he tells us, _p. 29._ he knows something of Sir _W. T._
upon the Subject of what passed between him and my Lord _Arlington_,
_that makes his hair stand on end_. Alas, the poor Gentleman's in an
Agony! Bless us all from sprights! what a puny Conjurer is this! to
raise a Spirit that scares no body else, and run into a hole for fear of
it himself: He has formed so terrible an Image of Sir _W. T._ in his own
little working Noddle, that he knows not were he is, nor what he does,
but is all in a maze. However, this I am certain, that no man alive who
has read the rest of _de Cros_'s Letter, but will allow him to be one,
that if he knew any thing ill of Sir _W. T._ would at least be sure not
to tell it; we have his own word for it, p. 7. _My design is not at all,
my Lord, to write you a Letter full of Invectives against Sir _W. T.__
And in another place, _That _(says he)_ would not be like a Gentleman_.

But yet to give him his due, and as he says, p. 7. _To let everybody see
_he_ has means in _his_ hands to be revenged_; there is one point, and
that alone, where he brings his Proof, lays downs his Instance, and that
out of the _Memoirs_ themselves; 'tis designed undeniably to convince
the World of Sir _W. T_'s Vanity, of which he could give _my Lord_ many
instances, but at present contents himself with one, and 'tis a thumping
one. 'Tis the following Period, which I shall quote out of the
_Memoirs_, a little more faithfully than he does in his Letter, which I
was so curious to observe, by thinking the word [_Clutches_] to be no
part of Sir _W. T_'s stile, and found he had taken a great deal of
pains, to wrest it as much as he could to his turn. It runs thus, _Mem._
p. 30. _This I suppose gave some occasion for my being again designed
for this Ambassy, who was thought to have some credit with _Spain_ as
well as _Holland_, from the Negotiations I had formerly run through, at
the _Hague_, _Brussels_, and _Aix la Chapelle_, by which the remaining
part of _Flanders_ had been saved out of the hands of _France_ in the
year 1668._ Now for my own part, I must confess my self so giddy a
Reader, and of so much inadvertency, that when I read that Passage, I
took it for a singular piece of Modesty, since the Author gives for a
Reason, why the King chose him for his second Ambassy in _Holland_,
because he had been formerly employed in those Countries, and not for
any Personal Merit in himself; but _de Cros_ is so