ls, or both.
No man's character indeed seems ever to have been carried to such
extremes as Raleigh's, by the opposite passions of envy and pity. In the
former part of his life, when he was active and lived in the world,
and was probably best known, he was the object of universal hatred and
detestation throughout England; in the latter part, when shut up in
prison, he became, much more unreasonably, the object of great love and
admiration.

As to the circumstances of the narrative, that Raleigh's pardon was
refused him, that his former sentence was purposely kept in force
against him, and that he went out under these express conditions, they
may be supported by the following authorities: 1. The king's word, and
that of six privy counsellors, who affirm it for fact. 2. The nature
of the thing. If no suspicion had been entertained of his intentions,
a pardon would never have been refused to a man to whom authority was
intrusted. 3. The words of the commission itself where he is simply
styled Sir Walter Raleigh, and not faithful and not beloved, according
to the usual and never-failing style on such occasions. 4. In all the
letters which he wrote home to Sir Ralph Winwood and to his own wife, he
always considers himself as a person unpardoned and liable to the law.
He seems, indeed, immediately upon the failure of his enterprise, to
have become desperate, and so have expected the fate which he met with.

It is pretended, that the king gave intelligence to the Spaniards of
Raleigh's project; as if he had needed to lay a plot for destroying a
man whose life had been fourteen years, and still was, in his power. The
Spaniards wanted no other intelligence to be on their guard, than the
known and public fact of Raleigh's armament. And there was no reason
why the king should conceal from them the project of a settlement which
Raleigh pretended, and the king believed, to be entirely innocent.

The king's chief blame seems to have lain in his negligence, in allowing
Raleigh to depart without a more exact scrutiny: but for this he
apologizes by saying, that sureties were required for the good behavior
of Raleigh and all his associates in the enterprise, but that they gave
in bonds for each other: a cheat which was not perceived till they had
sailed, and which increased the suspicion of bad intentions.

Perhaps the king ought also to have granted Raleigh a pardon for his old
treason, and to have tried him anew for his new offences.