not believe that
they were done with any Design to _prostitute_ him to the World: For
if that were true, he thinks they carried on their Revenge too far,
and instead of prostituting his Character did but prostitute their own
more effectually.

_And thus it is visible_, continues Monsieur _de Cros_ p. 16. _that
the King, a little after the Peace of_ Nimeguen _neglected him_. If
making Offers to him of a Secretary's Place immediately after his
Arrival, be the Sign of Neglect, all this is certainly true; _and
seldom employ'd him. 'Tis not as Sir_ W. T. _would make the World
believe, the Love of Retirement, and his Indisposition of Body, that
made him throw up his Employs; for never Man more passionately desir'd
to have his Share in the Publick Administrations than he._ Well, 'tis
no Miracle however to see a Man who is perfectly so unacquainted with
his own Humour to be a Stranger to all the rest of Mankind. The Author
of the Memoirs was at this time prevailed with by the King to have a
Part in a New Constitution of Council; and after almost two years
unsuccesful Endeavours at some Union, or at least some Allay of the
Heats and Distempers between the King and his Parliaments, took up a
Resolution of having no more to do with affairs of State; and
accordingly sent his Son in 1680. to acquaint his Majesty with it.
Whether he has departed from these Resolutions since, he leaves it to
the World to judge.

After Monsieur _de Cros_ has throughly chafed himself by assigning, as
he pretends, the true Reason why Sir _W. T._ was discarded the Court,
namely, the King's being dissatisfied with his Services, and Sir
_W. T_'s endeavouring all that in him lay to frustrate the King's
Commands, contained in a Dispatch which our _Letter-writer_ left with
him at the _Hague_, as he was going to _Nimeguen_ by his Majesty's
Order, to conclude a Peace _Don't expect_, says he p. 17. _My Lord,
that I should here acquaint you with the true Cause of so
extraordinary a Resolution, which according to Sir_ W. T. _entirely
changed the Fate of Christendom. I should do him too great a Pleasure
if I should reveal so important a Secret, and several other Intrigues,
in which some Persons, both of the late and this Reign in_ England,
_are nearly concerned._ But two or three Pages above, Monsieur _de
Cros_ spoke in another Tone, _je lui fair ai le plaisir de le mieux
instruire_, p. 9. but now the Weather-Glass is alter'd with him, so
that, for all I can disc