So that this Gentleman alone seems to have been born under
the unluckiest Planet in the world, tho Heir to his Father's Fortune,
and Successor to his Office, which was so considerable; yet he only of
all his Family, was _in Obscurity_, and _lay in the Dust_ (for so the
_French_ Letter has it) till my Lord _Arlington_ raised him out of both;
whose beams it seems were so refulgent, as to make him shine at that
distance his Foreign Employments carried him to. My Friends have
likewise assured me from their own remembrance and knowledge, that Sir
_W. T._ shined as much in a Parliament of _Ireland_ soon after the
King's Restoration, as _De Cros_ says he shined long in his Employments
abroad; and this was several years before he came into any Foreign
Employments. They told me, likewise that he was very easy in his
Fortune, not only by what he had from his _Father_, but from his _Lady_,
to whom God be thanked (and it is very happy for her Ladyship that) _De
Cros_ says, he has no Quarrel. By all which, and the many Employments he
since passed through, and of which in one of his Essays he says, he
_never sought any_; in my weak conception I should think he was a
person, that by the Circumstances of his Humour and his Fortune, needed
the Court less than the Court needed him.

As to his going out from Publick Employments, which _De Cros_ tells us
was upon _the King's being so ill satisfied with his Conduct and
Management of Affairs abroad, particularly those at _Nimeguen__; that
_he slighted him upon his return from thence, and made very little use
of him_. I can give no other Account besides what I find of the Time and
the manner in the _Epistle_ before the _Memoirs_; only I find, by
comparing the Date of his Return from _Nimeguen_, with that of King
_Charles_'s Declaration upon his dissolution of the old Council, and
selecting a new one, that Sir _W. T._ was a Member of that new and
select Council; and it was the Common Town-talk at that time, that this
Declaration was writ by him, and that he was in his Majesty's Chief
Confidence upon that surprising Resolution, which was received with such
Applauses, Bonfires, and other expressions of Joy in the City. Besides
all this, having had some acquaintance among _Spanish_ Merchants in
Town, I came to know, that several of them about two years after, had
recourse to Sir _W. T._ upon his being then declared Ambassador
Extraordinary to the Crown of _Spain_, by the King at Council, whereof