Excerpt from The Memoirs of John Ker, of Kersland in North Britain, Esq.: Containing His Secret Transactions and Negotiations in Scotland, England, the Courts of Vienna, Hanover and Other Foreign Parts, With an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Ostend Company in the Austrian Netherlands N o doubt I have difgufled the German Minilters 3 and perhaps fome can ping Cri ticks, who love Foreigners better than I do, will fay, I have been too its ere upon them 5 and ten to one will olneet, that if I had been better nfed I had been an}. Filent, and that the ill Treatment I received from. Them hath prompted me to what may look like Refentment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.