in that little time that I was there, not having discovered
what it really was, neither then, nor since. It was most certainly,
something of greater importance than to tell the Deputies of the Towns
the Contents of the Dispatch, with which I was intrusted. And Monsieur
_T._ will see cleerly one day, how far _this only incident did change
the Fate of_ Christendome.

_I pretend not_, adds Monsieur _T. to determine by whose Means, and
how_ du Cross, _obtained this Dispatch_. And a little lower, _All that
I could learn at Court, about this matter, was, that his Orders were
made up one morning, in an hours time, at the Dutchess of_ Portsmouths
_apartment, by the intervention of Monsieur_ Barillon.

It's pity, that an _English_ Ambassadour, that all the King his
Master's Council (if one can believe it) that a Man, who if he had
pleased himself, might have been several times Secretary of State,
should be so little informed, I will not say during his absence, while
he remained at the _Hague_, and at _Nimeguin_, but even since his
return into _England_, of what past there, and chiefly in that very
affair, wherein Monsieur _T._ was more exercised than in any other
Business that he ever undertook.

But how he could be know it, since neither the Duke of _York_ nor my
Lord Treasurer, nor hardly the King himself (if we may believe
Monsieur _T._) knew any thing of it; And _that these Orders were made
in one morning, in an hours time, at the Dutchess of_ Portsmouths
_Apartment, by the Interception of Monsieur_ Barillon.

Observe now, if you please, my Lord, the Malice of Monsieur _T._ in
Relation to Monsieur _Williamson_, on whom he would give in this
place, the Character of Perfidy, as he hath done in diverse other
parts of his Memoirs. Monsieur _T._ ought to have had at least, some
respect for the King, whose Orders Monsieur _Williamson_ did Execute.

_I never talkt of it_, says Monsieur _T. to the Secretary of State_
Williamson, as if he would lay that he was sufficiently perswaded
that Monsieur _Williamson_ was a Man altogether for _France_, and that
he was intirely devoted as well as my self, to Monsieur _Barillon_,
and that he was the Author of this Dispatch.

Is it not clear that Monsieur _T._ would make us imagine that Monsieur
the _Chevalier Williamson_, Secretary of State, the _French_
Ambassador, and the Dutchess of _Portsmouth_ promised these Orders. As
for me, tho' I had the Dispatch given me, yet he does not accuse