Intelligence to his frequent Conversations with Monsieur _Barillon_;
and a little below, where we shall, perhaps, examine this Matter more
carefully, we are told, _p. 29._ that this Ambassador came not to
_London_ till several years after his Arrival there, and that then he
never maintain'd any Commerce with him _au prejudice de son devoir_,
i. e. to the prejudice of his Duty. Now how Monsieur _de Cros_ as
Counsellor of State to King _Charles_ the II. should be ignorant of
several important Affairs relating to that Prince, but as the
Confident of Monsieur _Barillon_, should be made acquainted with them,
and yet all this while preserve his _Duty_ inviolate, is a
contradiction fit to be reconciled by no Man but the Party that made
it.

Having thus made it appear from whence he borrowed his Materials,
Monsieur _de Cros_ very gravely assures his noble Lord, _p. 11._ that
_after his death infallibly, and perhaps while he is alive_ (for alas,
poor Gentleman, he never knew his own Mind above a quarter of an hour)
_his Memoirs shall appear in publick, and there he will discover
abundance of things the truth of which has been hitherto concealed
with so much Address and Dexterity_. Lord what an insufferable deal of
Impertinence and Noise have we already had about the intended Writings
of Monsieur _de Cros_. First of all he promises, _p. 8._ to print a
Book of Remarks upon Sir _W. T_'s Memoirs, and this Book is to be at
least full as big as the Memoirs. In the second place, _p. 9._ he
promises to visit the World with a Book of his own Memoirs, in which
(to see how strangely Children and Books do sometimes degenerate from
their Parents) there is to be neither one Word of Complaisance, nor
Flattery, nor the least grain of Passion. Nay what is more remarkable,
it shall reveal several important but hidden Truths; it shall unlock
the Cabinets of Princes; it shall turn _Whitehall_ and _Versailles_
inside out, and in short come out with a hundred more Advantages than
ever any Book before it could boast off.

But what will you say to him, if after all this Parade and
Ostentation, he never publishes his _Memoirs_; for upon my Word the
thing is extremely doubtful. Can it be imagined that a Man of Monsieur
_de Cros_'s Christian Temper and Complexion will ever be accessary to
any Man's Ruine, but especially to that of a great Minister of State,
_who can be reproached with nothing in the World_, p. 12. _but only a
blind Obedience to the Wi