o learn either Humility
or good Manners; and if he has been severe upon any of the Great Men
then in Vogue, he has done no more than what every Body almost in the
Nation has done since. He barely contents himself with the
Satisfaction of having been in some measure serviceable to his King
and Country; and since he has not made his Fortunes at the expence of
either, he supposes he may lawfully mention his Services without the
horrid Crime of Ostentation or Vanity.

But to let the World see that Monsieur _de Cros_ has no Malice in his
Heart, but that he really designs Sir _W. T_'s Good, he condescends p.
5. to give him wholesome Advice, and sets him Copies to write after.
To this purpose he recommends to his Perusal _the Memoirs of_
Villeroy, _the Negotiations of_ Jeanin, _and the Letters of Cardinal_
Dossat, _in all which there reigns a Spirit of Sincerity and
Modesty_. Sir _W. T._ never presum'd to set himself in Competition
with any of those illustrious Persons; he is no Stranger to their
Merits or Character, but is afraid that Monsieur _de Cros_ has
proposed some Models to him which he never intends to follow himself.
It was not Sir _W. T_'s Bookseller that called him _One of the
greatest Men of this Age_, as Monsieur _de Cros_ falsely insinuates,
_p. 5._ but a reverend Prelate of our Church, who published the
_Memoirs_ without the Author's Consent or Privity; and who, in his
Advertisement to the Reader, does not stile him _Un des Grands Hommes
de ce Siecle_, as Monsieur _du Cros_ maliciously has printed it, but
only _an Ornament to Learning and to his Country_: So that this being
a Mystery to no body in _England_, he wonders how some People come to
make such Blunders about it in _Holland_. But by this and several
Instances of the like Nature, any man may easily guess what famous
Exploits Monsieur _de Cros_ designs to perform with the Help of his
_Hero_.

To make good the Charge of Presumption with which Monsieur _de Cros_
taxes the Author of the Memoirs, he cites a Passage, _p. 6._ which be
found accidentally at the first opening of his Book; and assures his
Noble Lord, that he doubts not but he shall be able in a short time to
produce several others to the same Effect. _The Negotiations which I
had managed at the_ Hague, _at_ Brussels, _and at_ Aix la Chappelle,
_and saved_ Flanders _out of the hands of France in 1668, made them
believe that I had some Credit amongst the_ Spaniards, _as well as in_
Holland. Indee