Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-20

tha, the grand mater, or conmiaaries full
" authorized according to the fdtutes Of
che order, be in the faid iiland 10 take poi
fellion thereof, ard the troops which are
to be furnilhed by his Sicillan majeay, as
hereafter fipplated, be arrived.
9Th. Half Of the garrilon at leaf, ihall
be competed Of native Malsefe: The re-
mainder, the order hall have The power Of
rafting among the natives of thofe nStions
who continue to poaels the language. The
Maltele troops ihall have Maltefe officers.
The command in chief of the garrifon, as
well as the nomination of officers, fhali
belong to the grand mater, and he cannot
difpenfe with it, even temporarily, hut ID
favor of a knight, according 10 the advice
Of the council of the order.
OF. The independence Of the Hands Of
Malta, OF Gozo, and of Comino, as well
as the pfeient efa5lifhment, is placed UNI
der the protection and guarantee, of France
Great Britain, Aulrla, Spain, Ruaia and
Pfuiiia.
18th. The order and iland of Malta.
with It's dependencies, are declared neu-
trail.
S5h. The ports of Malta lhall be open
TO the commerce and navigation of all ma
tions, who Will Pay their equal and regu-
lar duties thefe daties fhall be applied 10
the maintenance of the Malrefs language,
as fpecifed in the 50 feet. and Of the CT.
yiland military establishments Of The llland
and alfo ola general Lazaretto, open to
Ill nations.
9th. The Barbary powers are excepted
from the two preceding fipulatfons, until
the contracting parties ihall procure cef-
fation of the hofilities which fubfft be-
tween the faid barbary fatss, the order OF
ST. John, and thofe powers thar pofefs
the language, or are a component part OF
it.
10th. The order hall be governed, as
well in its ipiritual as temporal capacity,
by the fame laws, which were in force
when the knights Quilted the illand, as
far as they are rot deprived ef them by
the prefsnt treaty.
18th. The regulations contained in
iettions Sd, 9Th, 9Th, and 10th, fall be-
come laws and perpetual ttatutes of the
order in the ufual form; and the grand
mater, or If he fhorld not be in the order,
his Representative, as well a; his iuccef-
fors, ihall make oath punctsally to OBJ
ierve them.
I2th. His Sicilian majefy fhall be re-
quefed 70 furnih 1000 men, natives of
his dominions, to ferve as garrlfon In
the different fortrenes of the faid illands.
This force ihall remain there year, from
the ref5itution to the knights; and if, at
the expiration thereof, the order lhall not
have levied fuficient force in the judg-
ment of the guarantee powers, to ferye as
garrifon to the illand and its dependencies,
as fpecifed in feet. 9Th, the Neapolitan
troops fhall remain there until replacedby
another iuAicient force.
18th. The different powers defgnated
in fiction 9th, to wit: France, Great
British, Aultria, Spain, Rufia, and .Pruf-
ia, are Invited 10 sccede TO the prefent
fipulations.
Art. XI. The French troops hall eva
clate the kingdom of Naples and the 10
man fate; the Englih forces fhall like
wife evacuate Porto Ferrajo. and general
ly, all the ports and illands which they
occupied in the Mediterranean or IN the
Adriatic Sea.
XII. The eyaeuasions, cefiions, and
rcRitutions Populated by the prefent trea-
y, hall go into operation, as they regard
Europe, 10 the courie of a month, the feas
of America and Africa in three months
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