ly handled for it.

_At this time_, says our incensed Statesman, p. 19. _there arrived
from_ England _one_ de Cros, _as Sir_ W. T. _has express'd it, I shall
not, my Lord, make any stop at this term of Contempt, One de Cross_;
tho to his great Commendation be it spoken, he has almost spent a
whole Page about it before he has done, _'tis in Relation to my self
an Expression of the blackest Malice_. From thence he takes the Hint
to be speak himself to his Reader, telling him that the late King of
_England_ did him the Honour to treat him with more Respect and
Civility, both in his Pass-ports, his Letters, and the Commissions he
entrusted him with. He says 'twas _fort Cavalierement_, in plain
English, impudently done to speak after that saucy manner, of a Man
that was born of a tolerable good Family, that had been honour'd near
twenty years with several Employments, and whom a great Prince and a
King did not disdain to take for a Counsellor of State. There is a
certain Figure in Rhetorick (I have forgot the Name of it) which the
Grammarians tell us we are guilty of committing, when we pretend to
pass over those very things which we design to enumerate; and this I
find has been very serviceable all along to Monsieur _de Cros; he
won't make any stop at those words, no, not he; he won't rake into the
Particulars of Sir_ William's _Life, no not he_, but all the while
does it; and to say the truth, there's nothing in the whole Rhetorick
that he copies with so good a Grace. Well, let all Authors for the
future, as they hope to avoid Sir _W. T_'s sad Destiny, whatever they
do, be sure to mind their Heraldry; for they may see what a terrible
Adversary he has drawn upon himself by making a small mistake in that
ancient and honourable Science.

The Author of the Memoirs, _p. 325._ giving a short account of
Monsieur _de Cros_ and his Character, was so ill advised as to throw
out these Words: _He had formerly been a_ French _Monk, and some time
since had left his Frock for a Petticoat_. And now 'tis worth the
while to observe what judicious Remarques our furious _Letter-Writer_
has made upon them. _This is a fine reproach_, says he, _p. 20. to
come out of the Mouth of a Protestant Ambassador, one that belonged to
a Monarch who stiles himself Defender of the Faith; and in short, one
that so loudly declared at_ Nimeguen _that he'd have nothing to do
with the Pope's Nuncio._ A very hard Case this, that Sir _W. T._ shall
not have the li