e might pass his Reign
in Peace, tho not perhaps with so much Ease at home or Glory abroad as
if he fell into the Vein of his People._ What could Monsieur _de Cros_
himself have done more in such a Station? Here was not the least
Injury design'd to the late King, and as for the other Part of Sir
_W. T_'s Discourse, his Obligations as well as Ties of Friendship to
the Prince necessitated him to give him a faithful Representation of
Affairs in _England_. But our furious Counsellor of State is still
inveighing against Sir _W. T. for being often deficient in an exact
Fidelity, which every Minister is obliged to preserve inviolably even
in Matters of the least Consequence_. Sir _W. T._ to his great Comfort
is not the first Minister that has sometimes made bold to disobey or
suspend his Masters Orders, by the same Token that there are the Names
of several upon Record, who after they have transgress'd upon this
Point, instead of Frowns or Punishments, have received Rewards from
their respective Princes as soon as they came to be better inform'd.
After all an implicite blind Obedience may do well in _France_, or
under a despotick Climate; but all the Application in the World will
never bring it to Perfection in _England_.

Well, but says Monsieur _de Cros_, p. 15. _the late King of_ England
_found him out at last, and was so sensible of it, that tho he
dispatch'd him with a Commission into_ Holland, _he did it only out of
a Consideration of the Acquaintance he had there_. And a little lower,
_Nor was he then made use of but only in such Occasions as are never
devolv'd upon a Man with whose Conduct and Trust a Prince is well
satisfied, or for whom he has any regard and esteem; a Truth owned and
acknowledged by Sir_ W. T. _himself in his Memoirs_. If Sir _W. T._
had half the Vanity that makes so large a Share in the Composition of
Monsieur _de Cros_, he has here a fine Opportunity to tell the World
what particular Confidences his Prince reposed in him; but as this can
be no News to his Friends in _England_, so he does not esteem it worth
the while to proclaim it to Foreigners, some of whom perhaps are too
much prejudiced against him to receive any thing in his Behalf. 'Tis
true indeed, that Sir _W. T._ frequently takes notice in his Memoirs
of the many Marches and Counter-Marches of our Court, as he had just
Reason to do, and as all _Europe_ observed as well as he. However he
must humbly beg Monsieur _de Cros_'s Pardon, if he can