ANCIENT AND MODERN

MALTA:

CONTAINING

A FULL AND ACCURATE ACCOUNT

OF THE

PRESENT STATE OF THE ISLANDS OF

MALTA AND GOZA,

THE HISTORY OF THE

KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM,

ALSO

A NARRATIVE OF THE EVENTS WHICH ATTENDED THE

CAPTURE OF THESE ISLANDS BY THE FRENCH, AND THEIRCONQUEST BY THE ENGLISH:

AND

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING AUTHENTIC STATE-PAPERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS.

BY LOUIS DE BOISGELIN,

KNIGHT OF MALTA,

“De tous les Ordres qui prirent Naissance a l’Occasion des Guerres de la Terre Sainte*celui de St. Jean est le seul qui, conservant l*Esprit de sa premiere Institution , a toujourscontinue depuis d defendre la Religion Henault,.

ILLUSTRATED WITH

A large Chart of the Islands; Views, Portraits, A ntiqiies, $('.

IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. I.

LONDON •

printed for RICHARD PHILLIPS, no. 6, bridge-street, black-friars.

1805 .