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public distress the fatal errors of Warna were CH>pforgotten. During the absence and minority of lxvu.

Ladislaus of Austria , the titular king, Huniades.

was elected supreme captain and governor ofHungary ; and if envy at first was silenced byterror, a reign of twelve years supposes the artsof policy as well as of war. Yet the idea of aconsummate general is not delineated in his cam-paigns; the white knight fought with the handrather than the head, as the chief of desultorybarbarians, who attack without fear, and fly with-out shame; and his military life is composed of aromantic alternative of victories and escapes. Bythe Turks, who employed his name to frightentheir perverse children, he was corruptly deno-minated Jancus Lain, or the wicked: their ha-tred is the proof of their esteem; the kingdomwhich he guarded was inaccessible to their arms;and they felt him most daring and formidable,when they fondly believed the captain of hiscountry irrecoverably lost. Instead of confin-ing himself to a defensive war, four years afterthe defeat of Warna he again penetrated into theheart of Bulgaria ; and in the plain of Cossovasustained, till the third day, the shock of theOttoman army, four times more numerous thanhis own. As he fled alone through the woods ofWallachia , the hero was surprised by two rob-bers; but while they disputed a gold chain thathung at his neck,Jie recovered his sword, slewthe one, terrified the other, and, after new perilsof captivity or death, consoled by his presencean afflicted kingdom. But the last and most