rd _A----n_, nor does he treat him
insolently any where in his Memoirs. As soon as that Lord forsook his
Master's and the Kingdom's real Interests to cultivate the growing
Power of a Neighbouring Nation, Sir _W. T._ thought it high time to
leave him; but it never enter'd so much as into his Thoughts to betray
him. _After this_, continues our Pamphleteer, _he advanced himself by
the Patronage of some other Persons, to whose Service he intirely
devoted himself, to the Prejudice of his Duty; and so well did he
insinuate himself into their Confidence and good Graces, the Post he
was in giving him the privilege to have a frequent Access to their
Persons, that he was in a Capacity to have rendred very considerable
Services both to the King his Master and to his Country if he had made
the best Use of that Advantage._ If Sir _W. T._ ever failed of doing
the best Offices he could for his King and Country, it might perhaps
proceed from want of better Information, but his Duty and Affection
were never in fault. This he thinks a sufficient Reply to this
ill-grounded Calumny; for he never dedicated himself so intirely to
the Service of other Persons (Monsieur _de Cros_ must here mean the P.
of _O._) as to make the least Infringement of his Allegiance. And this
will notoriously appear by several Passages in the Memoirs, but
particularly p. 153. where Sir _W. T._ gives a large Account of a long
Conversation between the P. of _O._ and himself in the Garden at
_Hounslerdyke_. The Prince had been telling him before, that the
Dispositions and Designs of the Court were generally thought so
different from those of the Nation, especially upon the Point of
Religion, that his Friends there did not believe the Government could
be long without some great Disturbance unless they chang'd their
Measures, which was not esteem'd very likely to be done. To which Sir
_W. T._ answered _That his Friends (as they pretended) in_ England
_must see farther than he did to believe the King in any such Dangers
and Difficulties as they imagined. That the Crown of_ England _stood
upon surer Foundations than ever it had done in former times, and the
more for what had passed in the late Reign; and that he believed the
People would be found better Subjects than perhaps the King himself
believ'd them. That it was however in his Power to be as well with
them as he pleased, and to make as short Turns to such an End; if not,
yet with the help of a little good Husbandry h