Sir_ W. T. _If I had been minded to call
Falshood to my Assistance, I should have bespattered him with bitterer
things: but the Truth of my Remarks upon his Memoirs will revenge
me sufficiently upon him._ 'Tis needless here to question the
fruitfulness of Monsieur _de Cros_'s Invention, he having given but
too many Proofs of it in this short Letter; and were it not that
Dulness is the chief Ascendent in his Temper, he has variety enough of
_Fable_, to qualify him not for a Writer of Remarks, but a Poet. In
short if the dreadful Volume he threatens Sir _W. T._ with, perform no
greater Execution than this little Specimen, Sir _W. T._ will have all
the Reason in the World to bless his kind Stars for sending him so
harmless an Adversary.

Our Author who found it so necessary to engage other Persons in his
Quarrel, summs up all his Malice in his last Effort. Says he, p. 56.
_This the most proud and vindicative of all kind, has in his Memoirs
assaulted the Reputation even of the greatest Ministers, as the Duke
of_ Lauderdale, _the most zealous and faithful Servant the King ever
had_; (by the same Token that a[B] late Pamphlet has recorded a
celebrated Saying of his, _viz._ that he hoped to see the King's
Edicts to be Laws and above the Laws) _My Lord_ Arlington _who had
brought him out of Dust and Oblivion to place him in Employments_;
(but this Article having been cleared already, I shall now dismiss it
without any further Remark) _The principal Ministers and sagest
Magistrates of_ Holland, _the present Earl of_ Rochester, and _the
Marquis of_ Carmarthen. If this were true, as 'tis apparently false,
they don't want the Help of such a feeble Writer as Monsieur _de Cros_
to defend them. Lastly, p. 61. _Perhaps, says he, this great Minister,
this great Confident of Kings and Princes, and only Preserver of_
Flanders, _had done wiser than to enter the Lists with a Monk, with a
sort of an agent and a cunning Rogue_. To all which let this short
Answer serve. Sir _W. T._ had it never in his intentions to enter the
Lists with an Enemy of so prostitute a Character; he only mention'd
him two or three times, _en passant_, and has other Business to employ
him, than to engage himself in a War where he can Expect no Triumph.

[B] Mr. Johnson's _Argument_, &c.

FINIS.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

2. Long "s" has b