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A36748	A letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident in England in K. Ch. the Second's reign) which may serve for an answer to the impostures of Sir. Wm. Temple, heretofore ambassador from England at the Hague and at Nimeguen ... : together with some remarks upon his memoirs, to make appear how grosly he is mistaken in the greatest part of the most important matters he relates concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679.; Lettre de Monsieur Du Cros à Mylord **** afin de servir de réponse aux impostures de Monsieur le Chevalier Temple. English	Du Cros, Simon, 17th cent.	1693 (1693)	Wing D2436; ESTC R20449	18,902	38

did nothing but report up and down that the King gave the Authors of the Address presented to his Majesty by the House of Commons no better name than Rogues The King had his liberty to reject this Address as indeed he did and no ways apprehended the Consequences of it at that time yet for all that he banished Don Bern. de Salinas not in the least considering his Character nor the Kindness wherewith he had always honoured this Minister Yea and be Banished him too without any respect to the King of Spain But for me who had abused and deceived the D. of York My Lord Treasurer ay and the K. himself who had overthrown all those fair and vast Projects which the Confederates had contrived at London and Nimega●n● and Sir W. T. at the Hague which had disclosed the Kings dispatches a master piece of S●●r●●ry who was the cause of quite changing the 〈◊〉 of Christendom for me I say against whom the 〈◊〉 Orange had written and caused to be written so many thundering Letters against whom all the Ministers of the Confederates called for Vengeance against whom Sir W. T. levelled more of his endeavours to destroy me than the Court did to repair this Breach and patch up the business it lets me alone it does not make the least complaint to the Duke my Master the K. does me a great many favours and laughs in his Sleeve at the Surprise at the Sorrow and Complaints of the Confederates and Sir W. T. After all that can any body reasonably believe that the K. of England might have lookt upon me as a Rogue And when he told Sir W. T. after a droleing manner that I was a Rogue and had o● 〈◊〉 th●● all may it not be probable that he had a mind to jeer him and to make him sensible that he was taken but for Fool I● was very like so to he I have not gone about My Lord to say i● this place what I might say to wipe of all those scandalous impressions that Sir W. T. hath such a desire to fasten upon me I suppose I have given your Lordship sufficiently to understand that what he hath been pleased to say upon this Theme of me proceeds from inveterate Spite and Malice But what way is there to get clear of one of the most Haughty and most Revengeful of men who in his Memoires falls foul upon the reputation even of the greatest Minister who casts aspersions on the Duke of Lauderdale that most Zealous and most Faithful Minister that ever the King was Master of on My Lord Arlington whom Sir W. is bound to respect as his Master who was his Benefactor that raised him from his sordid obscurity and as it were from the Dunghill to bring him into play This ingreatful person forsooke him that he might catch at the shadow and appearance of mending his Fortune he would not have stuck to ruin My Lord Arlington by base indirect means This is no hard matter to make out even by Sir W. T. his own Memoirs but yet I am acquainted with some particulars upon this Subject that make my hair stand an end nay and I have not only learnt them from My Lord Arlingtons own mouth but also from a noted Minister of those times What a piece of impudence to call in question and tax the Principal Ministers and the soberest Magistrates of Holland viz. Monsieur de ●everning Monsieur Valknier and others generally esteemed by every body To arraign them I say some for A varice others for Partiality I had almost said for betraying their Trust But above all to give such disad antagious representations of the E. of Rochester and of Sir Leoline Jenkyns that it would have been all one if he had said that Sir Leoline was a man of the other World a plain downright Ideot void of insight and Experience And that Law Hyde now E. of Rochester was a Lord altogether unacquainted with and no ways fit for the imployment the King gave him at Nimeguen neverthetheless Sir Leoline was made Secretary of State and no notice at all taken of Sir W. As for Laurence Hyde Sir W. speaks first of him as if he were a Youth that should have been sent to the University I plainly perceive saith he that the chief design of that Commission was to introduce Mr. Hyde into this sort of employment and to let him understand the manner how the men behave themselves in the same then he adds He excused himself out of modesty to have any thing to do with any Conference and Compiling Dispatches Was it out of the respect he owed to Sir W. T. or for want of Capacity that My Lord shewed so much modesty that he would neither make Dispatches nor meddle with Conferences what he who had been ingaged already as he was afterwards in very important Affairs who had been Embassadour in the principal Courts of Europe who was chosen as Chief of the Embasie at Nimegnen one who in all respects is so far above Sir W. T. for all these great qualities yet My Lord affords Sir W. just as much difference as a petty Scholar does a famous Pedant And to reward him Sir W. T. would make him pass in the world for an Embassadour that was but at best his Scholar I make account to tell you what Sir W. dare not acknowledge Mr. Hyde being more subtile and of greater Abilities than Sir W and of that quality too that was not to be exposed would not intermeddle in a Mediation which was like to suffer so gross Indignities as the Mediation of England suffered at the Treaty of Nimeguen One time or other I shall publish those Indignities in my Memoires together with the weakness and tameness wherewith they were content to suffer them But now if Sir W. T. hath not spared such Illustrious persons as these No not so much as My Lord Treasurer at present Marquis of Caermarthen laying something to his charge whom also he does not do that right and Justice which is due to so great a Minister of State one of the greatest Wits of the Age for business a person so Loyal to the King his Master that he sacrificed himself for his sake and after all so full of zeal for his Country that he hath bethought himself of all expedients and hath not feared to expose himself to peril and utter undoing that he might deliver it from the mischiefs that throaten it If Sir Will. hath not spared the Kings person whose Dignity and Reputation he so often sacrifices can I hope to escape his foul mouthed Language Peradventure he had better have done something else something wiser great Confident of Princes and Ks. the sole preserver of Flanders as he is than to have entred the l●st with a Monk with a kind of an Agent and with a cunning Knave But his desire of revenge hath prevailed he believes himself cruelly wrong'd and he is in the right on 't for that at the Hague

England and the other Neighbouring Countries Den Bernard de Salinas continues Monsieur T. said to certain Members of the Commons that this Address had so exasperated the King that he said those who were the Authors of it were a Company of Coquins I remembred at my Arrival in England in 1675. before I was to go into France in Quality of an Envoy whither I acknowledge his most Christian Majesty would not permit me to come either because they had informed him that I had embraced the Protestant Religion or it may be because the King of France would not receive his own Subjects in the Quality of Ministers of other Princes It happened I say that the King of England to whom also I had a Commission bid the Marquiss of Ruvigni one Evening bring me to his Cabinet and himself come in with me The King enquired of me at the first what news I could tell him of the Condition of the Swedes Army in Pomerania through which I past and exprest much concern that the Constable Wrangle not minding to pass forward into the Empire as Monsieur T. says had thereby different pretences had attacked the Elector of Branderburg as vigorously and with as much success as he could I told the King the reason which concerns not my present subject to report here Afterwards I having informed the King of the State of Germany the King believing that I was to pass into France spoke to me in these very words Monsieur tell the King my Brother that it is much against my mind that I have made Peace with these Coquins the Hollanders Monsieur the Marquiss of Ruvigny who stands here knows it well Sometime before the making of this Peace the King talking with Monsieur de Shrenborn Envoy from Mayence told him also in Relation to the Hollanders In a little time Monsieur I will bring these Coquins to Reason Monsieur de Barillon writ to the Count d' Auaux the French Ambassadour at the Hague certain Discourses which the King had concerning the Hollanders The Count d' Auaux made use of this to encrease the just Suspicions of the Esttates 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 Consederates 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 ●f 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 were he alive he might witness that as well as the Aversion the King of England always bore to Sir W. Temple and the little Esteem he had of him at bottom Upon my return from Nimeguen to London I went immediately to Court as soon as I came there I meet Prince Rupert who askt me with a sterne Countenance if the Peace was Concluded I answered him in the Affirmative upon which he cryed out and said O Dissimulation After having had the Honour to give his Majesty an account of what was past I told him of the ill humour I perceived Sir W. T. to be in and what I knew of his neglect of his Majesties Orders The King seemed very angry with Sir W's Proceedings and said he was a very impertinent R to find fault with my Commands But if the late K. of England did not approve of my Conduct in the affairs of Nimeguen which in effect he declared at first in Publick not to be pleased with in which he play'd his part to admiration If against his will I had truly inform'd the several Deputies at the Hague how that the two Kings of England and France were intirely agreed upon Conditions of Peace 〈◊〉 this accident changed the Destiny of Christendom and what endeavours soever the English Court had made there were no ways to repair the Breach If I was a Fool a piece of an Agent o● a Knave How comes it that the King suffer'd me to stay in England near a year nay as long as my Master thought fit Why was the King so civil to me Why did he recompence me for my Voyage from Nimeguen Upon what account did the King bestow several other Favours upon me How comes it that I haveing made a great Entertainment and Fireworks to shew my joy for the Re-establishment of the Duke my Master to his Teritories that the whole Court should do me that Honour as to be present thereat It was not my quality of Envoy Extraordinary of the Duke de Gottorp that hindred the King to express some kind of resentment against me and thereupon to bid me avoid the Kingdom I do well remember the King was just npon the point of making Mounsieur Van Beuningen Ambassador to the States General to withdraw and get him out of the Land because he had got the word Connivance to be foisted into a Memorial he presented to the King for the recalling of the English Forces which bore Armes in France Don Barnard de Salinas was the Spanish Envoy the King made much of him yea and loved him for the particular care he had in Flanders of the education of the E. of Plym one of the Ks. 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