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A weekly journal of Saturday has pnblished the
following papers respeaing Malta, by which it ap-
pears that from first to last the Maltese, by their
deputies in London, opposed the restoration el the
island to the Order of St. John ; that they consi-
dered as the greatest evil that which Minister; ima-
gined to be a favour—the new arrangement of the
Order according to the Treaty of Amiens. The
Maltese grievously complained of the Capitulation
panted to the French garrison by General P:got.
Iliey claimed the island by right of conquest, hav-
ing contributed so greatly to the capture. Just be-
fore the conclusion of the Definitive Treaty, they
lilted their protest against the restoration of the
Island to the Order. Lord Hobart heard their com-
plaints, but it is stated in the letter of the Deputies
to their Constituents, that Lord H. would not see
them al his °Jed., but privay, for Sear of giving une-
Ara& to the -French Government, thol the Treaty
was not concluded.—lt is said too, that in conse-
quence of the discontent of the Maltese at the return
of the Order, they now have an agent at St. Cloud,
requesting to be made a free independent State,
under the .srotaion of Frunze!

lie. I.
Sts, Word-Street, Maya, 15301
The subjea of Malta has lately been much can-
vassed by the public ; but as I have not seen in any
publication, the Memorials of the Nlaltese Deputies,
which appear to me very interesting, I send you
i.nclosed, copies of them. They were distributed to
several persons at Malta, and one of them fell into
my hands.—lf you think them as important as I do,
they are. at your service to publish in your Weekly
Register, if not, be pleased to return 'then: by the
bearer.—l am, Sir,—Your most obedient Servant,
Urns. Coblirt:, Esq.. A. M.Kzezi E.
Ni). TT.
The humid,- Representation of the Deputies of the Islands
of Malta and Gozo, at the foe: of the Throe of the
Kin" of the United Kingdom ,f Great Britain and
Ireland.
The Maltese were the first who took up arms
against the French, and besieged them in Valetta :
they were afterwards assisted by the Portuguese,
-the Neapolitans, and the English, who blocked up
the Great Harboer and the port of St. Paul, while
the Maltese guarded every other avenue to the
Island.—The gates of Valetta were shut on the 2d
of September 1798, and on the 4th of September
1800, the city surrendered.—The foreign troops,
(as all the manifestoes and proclamations of the
different generals clearly prove) were solely aux-
iliaries. l'he Maltese were the principals in the
war.—Daring the blockade, the Maltese lost more
than twenty thousand souls. The British army had
' not a single soldier killed. Reduced to the utmost
extremity, from a scarcity of provisions, the French
garrison offered to capitulate, and to leave hostages
for the vast sums which they had taken from the pub-
lic Treasury, from the University, from the Monte di
Piera, from the Churches, and, lastly, from indivi-
duals, under the name of forced loans. The British
General, as well as the Maltese, were acquainted
with the situation of the French garrison; they
knew that in two days it must surrender at discre-
tion. And in the city there were aaually found no
more than a few salms of wheat, and no other pro-
visions whatever. Notwithstanding this, General
Pigot (without the knowledge and consent of the
Maltese) granted the garrison a capitulation, by which
the French were permitted to carry away all their et-
, feds. In consequence of which, before tire gates were
opened, the French again plundered the city of the
few jewels and etfeas which still remained to the aban-
doned inhabitants, and carried them in triumph on
board the vessels that were to convey to France the
spoils of a viaorious people.—The British troops
took possession of the place, and persuaded the
Maltese to lay down their arms upon the glacis
before they entered the town.—Conti ling in the
good faith of the British nation, the Maltese con-
signed the government of their country into the
hands of the British Generals, without suspicion,
without stipulation, and faithfully obeeing them,
as ministers of the Sovereign whom their hearts
had eleae.l.—As to the meaner in which they were.
treated, they wish to remain silent; as they are
fully persuaded that it will be reprobated, with
horror and regre „ by the Ministers of the King
of Great Britain.—The expenses of the war by
. land, and the pay of the Maltese battalions, were
defrayed by the Maltese; and, in order to enable
them to do this, they mortgaged the lands of se-
veral villages.—The Maltese, therefore, demand,
that their island may be restored to them ; or that
111 the expenses incurred by them, for their share
of the war, may be paid them, and that they may
be indemnified for the losses occasioned by the
war,: and for the plunder which the French were
permitted to carry away.—We affirm, that being
the principals in the war, we were the lawful
captors ; that every species of public property is
ours ; and that if, by a superior force it should
be wrested from our hands, the mortgages on them
ought at least to be paid.—The Maltese demand
tliz possession of their island by right of conquest
from the French, who conqiwital it from the Order
of Saint Jahn of Jerusalem.—As to the pretensions
of this Order to the Island, it is our duty to
assert, that it was ceded by the Emperor Charles
the Fifth, in quality of fief, and as a deposit for
arms, and the maintenance of troops', in order to
make perpetual war against the iafidels..-...As to
the landed property which that Order has acquired
in Malta, it is contrary to the. stipulations, and
has been obtained by an usurpation of the pro-
perty of individuals ; and at great part of the for-
tresses themselves and the public edifices were
built by taxes imposed upon the Maltase, The ,
Unieeivity, the Manse di Pieta, and other iastitst-
linos% bekelg, solely, to the Maltese, are the pen. j
potty of inaivialasais, and never did belong to the
Order.,—Whatcverpretensions the Knights of the 1
ozd= of Swat lan; to as ItlarJ,

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