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 ( 101 ) respondence, that Wallace actually embraced the present leisure, to fulfil his former engage- ments to the King of France. An author, who has recorded many of the exploits of our hero, in rude rhyme, mtornis us, chat Wallace, with a ty of his brave men, who stiil continued his faithful adherents, and shar- ers of his fortune, embarked at Kirkcudoright, and set sait for France; that mong these were towo Wallaces, his kinsmen, with Crawford und Clelane, who often fought by luis site, and participated in his hardships; that they con- menced their voyage under an auspicious geles Ilist the 'sar continued during all the, suc- ccding nipit, and no accident happened to ther volisni crew; that upon the following day, how vers they were guiding along, the master ci'the vessel. from the topeast, descried six- toun sali of great strips bearing towards then, waving the red flage, which the brightness of the surrendered no less terrible in appearance. The master descended in great consternation, and bewailed, in the bitterest larguage: his hard fate.' in beii instrumental in bringing noble Wallace, and so many of his brave men, to certain death. Wallace enquiring into the stsiden cause of his consternation, was informed, ther this was the well-known Redriver, the pirate. who gave no quarter, bat killed, or plunged all in the briny wave. Wallace entreated him to be calı, and enquired if there was any parti- cular mark by which could be discovered from the rest of his pen. He was instantly 19 in-