Duke of _Lauderdale_, that most Zealous, and most Faithful Minister,
that ever the King was Master of; on My Lord _Arlington_ whom Sir _W._
is bound to respect as his Master, who was his Benefactor, that raised
him from his sordid obscurity, and as it were from the Dunghill, to
bring him into play, This ingreatful person forsooke him, that he
might catch at the shadow and appearance of mending his Fortune; he
would not have stuck to ruin My Lord _Arlington_ by base indirect
means: This is no hard matter to make out, even by Sir _W. T._ his own
Memoirs, but yet I am acquainted with some particulars upon this
Subject that make my hair stand an end, nay, and I have not only
learnt them from My Lord _Arlingtons_ own mouth, but also from a noted
Minister of those times.

What a piece of impudence to call in question and tax the Principal
Ministers, and the soberest Magistrates of _Holland_, viz. Monsieur
_de Beverning_, Monsieur _Valknier_ and others, generally esteemed by
every body. To arraign them, I say, some for Avarice, others for
Partiality, I had almost said for betraying their Trust. But above
all, to give such disadvantagious representations of the E. of
_Rochester_, and of Sir _Leoline Jenkyns_; that, it would have been
all one if he had said, that Sir _Leoline_, was a man of the other
World, a plain downright Ideot, void of insight and Experience: And
that _Law. Hyde_, now E. of _Rochester_, was a Lord altogether
unacquainted with, and no ways fit for the imployment the King gave
him at _Nimeguen_; nevertheless, Sir _Leoline_ was made Secretary of
State, and no notice at all taken of Sir _W._

As for _Laurence Hyde_, Sir _W._ speaks first of him, as if he were a
Youth, that should have been sent to the University, _I plainly
perceive_, saith he, _that the chief design of that Commission was to
introduce Mr._ Hyde _into this sort of employment, and to let him
understand the manner how the men behave themselves in the same_, then
he adds, _He excused himself out of modesty, to have any thing to do
with any Conference, and Compiling Dispatches_. Was it out of the
respect he owed to Sir _W. T._ or for want of Capacity, that My Lord
shewed so much modesty, that he would neither make Dispatches, nor
meddle with Conferences, what, he who had been ingaged already, as he
was afterwards in very important Affairs; who had been Embassadour in
the principal Courts of _Europe_, who was chosen as Chief of the
Embasie at _Ni