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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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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Execution of the Undertakings of this great Monarch There arrived said Sir W. at that time from England one whose name was de Cros. I shall not stop my Lord upon this Term of Contempt One called it is a very malicious Expression in respect of my self the late King of England himself did me the Honour to treat me in Passports in his Letters in his Commissions which he charged me with It is very impudent and rude to speak so of a Man who is of a good Family who has had the honour of being employed for almost twenty years and whom a great Prince and a King have not disdain'd to use as Councellor of State He was continues Sir W. a French Monk who had lately quitted his Frock for a Petticoat Here is a reproach which ill becomes an Ambassador of a Monarch who is Defender of the Faith and of the Protestant Religion of one who declared so openly at Nimeguen that he would have nothing to do with the Pope's Nuncio I do not know my Lord that it is a disgrace to be a Monk and much less to have been one formerly There are indeed amongst them as well asamongst the rest of Mankind some miserable Wretches of a mean Birth and of a disorderly and infamous Life People of no use without Honour and without Reputation Sir W. T. thought without doubt that I was of that Number but there are likewise several very famous for the Sanctity of their Lives of an extraordinary Merit and of the greatest Quality Sons of Princes and Kings and Kings themselves and Popes But if this sort of Life is not now as formerly it was so certain a Character of a good and honest Man do's Sir W. think he can dishonour me in reproaching me for leaving a Profession which himself thinks so contemptible for a Petticoat It will not be material in this place to say how I was engaged therein in my tender years There is nothing more usual in France Spain and Italy where ancient Houses do sacrifice a good part of their Families in Monasteries 't is a Maxim to say the truth most cruel and horrid Neither will I relate how and after what manner I came out of it however it was not for a Petticoat I have remained several years without so much as having any inclination to it and it hath been apparent that I have had much a-do and was very much unresolved as to this Choice There was too great advantage to throw off my Frock for the Petticoat that I have taken not to do it It is a Petticoat of a Scotch Stuff and which hath been a greater Ornament and done the Crown of England more good than Sir W. himself if he do not know it the History of England and Scotland in these late Times may inform him I shall enlarge no further that I may not engage my self to publish the Misfortunes and Disorders of Sir W's Family which I suppose would not be like a Gentleman I have no reason that I know of to complain neither of his Lady nor his Son nor of his Daughters Besides had I even cast off the Monk's Habit for a Petticoat I should have done no more than a great many worthy deferving Persons have done yea some of the Pope's Nuncio's Cardinals Bishops Kings and Princesses too who have quitted the Veil for the Breeches whose Posterity I make no question is highly esteemed and reverenced by Sir W. I did so well insinuate my self saith Sir W. into the Court of Sweden that I obtained from thence a Commission to be a kind of an Agent in England That is very dirty I have had the management of Affairs and the Quality of Envoy when Sir W. had no more than that of an Agent or Resident at Brussels I was Envoy at the Court of England before ever I was in Sweden or before ever I had any acquaintance there I went the first time to Sweden just at that time the late King of England sent me into Sweden and Denmark about the beginning of the Year 1676. The Pretence was for to demand the free passage of Letters which the King of Denmark refused for hastening the Congress of Nimeguen in procuring the expedition of Passports requisite to the Ministers of State who were to compose the Assembly and also to urge the Departure of the Embassadors belonging to those two Northern Crowns But now the true Cause was quite another Matter and of greater consequence not for the King of England but indeed for another Potentate That shall be made appear some time or other in my Memoirs Had I been a kind of a Swedish Agent I should not have defended my self in that Point I should have held it as a great piece of Honour since it could not chuse but be very glorious and splendid to have the Affairs of so great a King in such important Conjunctures as those were committed to ones charge and care but at the very time Sir W. speaks of I was dignified with the Quality of Envoy Extraordinary from the Duke of Holstein Gottorv acknowledged and received at the Court of England for such Sir W. knows that very well there was sent him divers Memoirs to Nimeguen whilst the Mediation lasted which I had delivered in at London concerning the re-setling my Master but the Interest and Concerns of this Prince were so indifferent to him that I was fain to beg of my Lord Treasurer to recommend them more particularly to Sir Leoline Jenkyns Moreover you may see Sir W. T. mentions in his Memoirs all the Potentates that had any interest in the Peace of Nimeguen except the Duke of Holstein Gottorp notwithstanding he had two Ministers at the Congress and although France had stipulated for his re-establishment in the second Article or Condition of the Peace such who shall peruse the Memoirs of Sir W. might be apt to think that the Duke of Holstein was reckoned as no body in the World and that he had no part at all in what pass'd in Christendoom from the commencing of the War in 1672 until the conclusion of the Peace 1679 But Thanks be to God Sir W. is not the Steward of Glory and Immortality Sir W. therefore must have often read my Name and Character in the Letters and Orders of the Court and cannot have forgot that he came to render me a Visit at my Lodgings at such time as he by the King's Order was to confer with me upon what account Monsieur Olivencrantz might be obliged to pass from Nimeguen into England That Swedish Embassador lodg'd at that time in my house 'T is true indeed as the Interests of my Master were inseparable from those of Sweden I found my self engaged to be very much concerned in the Interests of that Crown in whatsoever might depend on my care There was an Envoy extraordinary from Sweden at London and yet for all that the Swedish Ambassadors did me the Honour to maintain a very regular Correspondence