be intirely his own work; 'tis
easie seen that the Peace of _Nimeguen_ is his Aversion, because he is
ashamed to have had so small a Part in it as he had, and that the most
glorious part of his Life is not to be found in that Negotiation.

I would have this Complaisance for Monsieur _T._ though he treats me
so ill; I would, at least, in some part, draw him out of this great
incertainty, on the subject of the Dispatch which I brought him.

He is deceived, when he imputes this Resolution to the Intrigues and
Perswasions of _France_. It was neither managed, nor taken, nor
dispatcht, at the Dutchess of _Portsmouth_'s; nor was it by the means
or intervention of Monsieur _Barillon_. That Ambassadour had no part
in it, but on the very Instant when the affair was concluding. He was
not so much as present at the Expedition, as he had not been at any
time at the Deliberations. The Marquiss of _Ruvigny_, the Son, carryed
the first News to the King, his Master, the same day that I parted for
_Nimeguen_. Monsieur _Williamson_ knew well what was contained in the
Dispatch to Monsieur _T._ in which there was nothing very mysterious.
But he was never privy to the secret of the Negotiation, and tho' he
was present when I took my leave of the King in Secretary _Coventry_'s
Office, yet he was then ignorant of the true subject of my Voyage, and
perhaps he never knew it.

The King was not at all precipitate, and the affair was not concluded
and dispatcht in an hours time. It was treated on, and deliberately
considered near Three weeks. There was time given to the Ambassadours
of _Swedeland_ to resolve themselves, and make their Answer. The
King's design was doubtless aimed for the good of _Europe_, and the
publick tranquility, but in truth, he had not in his Eye, nor did he
certainly believe _that happy Fate of Christendome_, for which
Monsieur _T._ labours so earnestly in consort with some particular
Persons, Enemies to the State, Seditious, and Disturbers of the
Publick Repose.

But _the King said pleasantly_, adds Monsieur _T._ _that the Rogue_
(Coquin) du Cross _had outwitted them all_. If Monsieur _T._ had not
made the King say this, and had said it himself, I might have applied
to him, with as much Justice as any man in the World, these Verses
which I have read somewhere,

Coquin, _he calls me, with mighty disdain_.

Doubtless, I should answer Monsieur _T._ thus,

_Seek your_ Coquins _elsewhere, you're one your self_, But the P