Ancient and modern Malta, as also, the history of the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Volume 2 |
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Page 248 - Comino. 4. The forces of his Britannic majesty shall evacuate the island and its dependencies within three months after the exchange of the ratifications, or sooner if it can be done.
Page 247 - Gozo, and Comino, shall be restored to the order of St. John of Jerusalem, to be held on the same conditions on which it possessed them before the war, and under the following stipulations : 1. The knights of the order whose...
Page 244 - XI. The articles of capitulation being signed, the gate called Des Combes shall be given up to the English general; and occupied by a guard consisting of an equal number of French and English, with orders to permit neither the soldiers of the besieging army, nor any inhabitant of the island whatsoever, to enter the city until the French troops shall be embarked and out of sight of the port. As soon as the embarkation shall have taken place, the English troops shall occupy the gates, and free entrance...
Page 88 - Maltese, were slain; while he himself had lost 8,000 of the flower of his Janissaries. " What resistance," exclaimed the Turkish commander, looking towards the Burgh and St. Angelo, " may we expect from the parent when the child, small as it is, has cost us our bravest soldiers!" Mustapha Bashaw had then, as an intimidation, the breasts of the knights cut open; their hearts torn out ; and as an insult to the Christians, their bodies placed in the shape of a cross, then covering them with their soubrevest,...
Page 93 - The French Republic shall employ its credit with . the different powers, that the Knights of each nation may be allowed to exercise their right over the property of the Order of Malta, situated in their dominions.
Page 273 - Treaty patent of this day. They shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time.
Page 275 - Knowing the impossibility in our present circumstances, the members of our order being generally dispersed, of preserving all the forms and customs prescribed in our constitution and statutes; but being, nevertheless, desirous to secure the dignity and the power inherent to the sovereignty of our order, by making a proper choice of a successor to d'Aubusson...
Page 250 - Sicilian majesty shall be iuvited to furnish 2000 men, natives of his states, to serve as a garrison in the different fortresses of the said islands. That force shall remain one year, to bear date from their restitution to the knights; and if, at the expiration of this term, the order should not have raised a force sufficient, in the judgment of the...
Page 247 - ... unless that election has been already made since the exchange of the preliminaries It is understood that an election made subsequent to that epoch shall alone be considered valid, to the exclusion of any other that may have taken place at any period prior to that epoch.
Page 243 - IX. — All the French inhabiting Malta, and those of the Maltese who are desirous of following the French army, and retiring to France with their property, shall have the liberty so to do. Those who possess moveables, and estates impossible to be disposed of immediately, and who intend settling in France, shall be allowed six months from the signature of the present capitulation, for the sale of their estates and other effects. This property shall be respected ; those who remain for the time being...