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 (98) were either honourably detained in his courts or inevita' y pursued by the continual vigilance of his coafi fential' officers. " En ploying such avtomomolerate, vigorous and wise policy, Edward reasonably expected that the Scottish raton would in future remain quiet and un- resisuing under his government." Such are . tis two relations of Edward's policy towards Scotland, which have been trans tt 1 to posterity. midst contradictory Estations, howrver, it appears the safest niethod to prefer the testimony of those who live nearest to thil ime, and had the best opportunity to ascertain the true nature of the events related. Thiſ reasoning is also confirmed by the sec- ceeding events in the history of that turbulent period. But amidst all these transactions, Wallace still remained unconquered unawed, uncar- fuprted. Excluded from the councils, he had taken no part in the battles of his native country. Those who disputed the post of honours for which he bravely toiled, since his retirement, Ind proved that it is easier to envy others of their justly merited praise. than, by magnanimous conduct, to deserve the same Destitute of his prudence, valour, and magna- nimity, the Regent, who was the chief and shameful cause of his departure from the de- fence of his country, bad gilded up the con- test, and, with the rest of his confederates against Wallace, bad enslaved Scotland, and now leſt all that he had won. But