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 ( 97 ) enactment of any new laws, which the altered circumstances of the country might require commissioners from the Scottish parliament, in concert with English commissioners, nomi- nated by the king, should be occasionally appointed to prepare such laws, and present them for the royal sanction. That persons, whose presence in Scotland might prove dang- erous to the tranquillity of the government should with the consent of the faithful Scots, be removed by the guardian out of the king- And that the commissioner's whether Scots or English, who night be employed at any time in regulating the affairs of Scotland, should be bound by the solemnity of an oath, to loyalty and secrecy. to this plan the king, gave his sanction, "To the different commissioners appointed, no reasonable objection could be found; and a few acts of grace were performed. Hancr, add these authors," however unjust these pretensi- ons were, upon which he had prosecuted his conquest, he had scarcely taken any thing bet the name of an independent nation. In his enterprises and measures, he had displayed that mixture of profound and artful policy, military heroism, generous clomency and unconquer- able ambition, which is peculiarly adapted to suppress discontent and either to overawe or to overpower opposition. The Scots seemed at length to be almost universally reconciled to his dominion; and those of whose power er sentiments he was in any degree jealousy I We