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 ( 119 ) should fill them with terror and disfigure their faces. Dane, both these heroes had men and money; but Wallace had neither the one nor the other. The one was a king, the other a wealthy citizens of Rome. and one of the Great rank. Wallace was only a private gentle- man, the second son of a poor Scotch laird; he had martial England, and political Edward to encounter and only a few of the nobles and people to support him. Nor did either of these approach to his aid, until..by the power of his own arm, and by the number and power of his heroic actions, he constrained them to conclude that under hid conduct they would prove invincible. And it is added, that the purity of their intentions, the objects for which the contended and the means employed to pricate the schemes, were not mere noble and disinterested, than those which gave merves to the arm, and motion to the soul, of the great Sir WILLIAM WALLACE. A Poet of that age has expressed his own, and the feelings of the nation, upon the sad event of his death, in the following lines: "Tevious Death, who ruins all, Hith wrought the sad lamented fall Of WALLACE; and no more remains Of him, than what an urn contains. Vleeshes for our hero have, He for his armour a cold grave. He left the cart!;. too l a state, And by his acts o'ercame his fate: His