he himself was then a Member. All which laid together, does most
abundantly verifie what _De Cros_ says of his being disgraced upon his
return from _Nimeguen_. But the best account of all these Passages we
must expect whenever he will think fit to publish the first and third
part of the _Memoirs_, which are mentioned at the beginning and end of
those the world has seen already. In the mean time, what little has
happened to fall in the way of my knowledge or enquiries, may be enough
to discover the impudent Forgery of this false Coyner, who pretends to
counterfeit all sorts of Metals, but is so wretched a bungler, and
performs it so grosly, that not one of them will pass. 'Twas for this
Reason, I suppose, that the _French_ Edition of his Letter pretends to
have been printed at _Cologne_, which I have long observed to be the
Common Forge, or at least the Common Form of Paltry, Scurrilous Libels,
printed in that Language; and which no Printer or Bookseller abroad dare
set their Names to. This I cannot but mention for the Credit and
Reputation of his honest Stationer at the _Mitre_, who I believe is the
only Stationer in _England_ would have had the ingenuity to set the
_Mitre_ on this _Monk_'s Head.

The last precious piece of his Malice I shall take notice of, is, That
he grudges Sir _W. T._ even the Honour of his Retreat from Publick
Affairs, by which perhaps he has been more distinguished, than by his
greatest Employments: But this _De Cros_ cannot allow him: No, saye he,
_p. 8._ _It was not what he would make us believe; his love for his own
ease, and his indispositions of body, that made him decline his
Employments_. Alas! what a sad Fate that man falls under, that dares
incur the displeasure of Mons. _De Cros_? or who can tell what will
become of him? He must neither live at Court, nor at his own House, in
publick Business, nor out of it; In Town, nor in Country: where shall
we find a place for him? I know none but the middle Region of the Air:
But, _It was not his love for his own Ease_, &c. _that made him decline
his Employments_. Why? whoever informed this Conjurer it was? I am sure
the _Memoirs_ say no such thing, but in the last Page gives us a quite
different account; where, telling his Reasons why he excused himself, at
his return from _Nimeguen_, from entring upon the Secretaries Office,
are these Words: _I that never had any thing so much at heart as the
union of my Country, which I thought the only way to it