Monsieur, I will bring
these_ Coquins _to Reason_. Monsieur _de Barillon_ writ to the Count
_d' Avaux_, the _French_ Ambassadour at the _Hague_, certain
Discourses which the King had concerning the _Hollanders_. The Count
_d' Avaux_ made use of this to encrease the just Suspitions of the
_Estates_. He carried the Letters of Monsieur _Barillon_, to Monsieur
_Fagel_. Whereupon, the _States_ made a terrible Complaint, and the
King of _England_ said on this Occasion to the Duke of _Lauderdale_,
that _Monsieur_ Barillon, _and the Count_ d' Avaux _were_ Coquins.

Had the King called me _Coquin_, seriously, I ought not to think it
any very strange thing; since he hath treated in the same manner the
most powerful and wisest Republick of the World, to whom he had so
great Obligations; two Ambassadours of his most Christian Majesty, of
extraordinary merit, and as honest Men as _France_ ever had; and also
the greatest Lords of his own Kingdom who were Authors of the Address
which the Commons presented him.

There is also this difference, that the King, speaking of those Lords,
those Ambassadours, and the _Hollanders_, he called them _Coquins_ in
anger, but when he spoke of me, he said it _pleasantly_ (according to
Monsieur _T._) _and that I was a cunning_ Coquin, _more cunning than
the Duke of_ York, _my Lord Treasurer, the Secretary of State_
Williamson, _and even the King himself_.

Either I am much deceived, or all the Ministers of the Confederates
that were then at _London_, would have been all _Coquins_ at this
rate, and Monsieur _Temple_ himself, and would have deceived those who
abused and deceived them. For besides, there is more credit methinks
on such like Occasions, _to be a cunning Rogue_, and to pass for a
more able Man than the most able Ministers of State, than to be the
laughing-stock, and the Fool of a _Monk_ and a sort of Agent; Sir
_William Temple_, and some others, were truly so on this occasion.

But I would acquaint Sir _W. Temple_ of what he has not perhaps heard
of, as he has done the like to me, I do not invent it to revenge my
self, and if I would make use of falshoods, I might make recourse to
more heinous Affronts; the truth of my Remarks upon his Memoirs, shall
be my full satisfaction. What I shall relate may be found in my
Letters upon that account to the Prince my Master, and his Ministers:
I took no particular care to divulge it immediately to Mounsieur
_Barillon_, to whom I was so much devoted;