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SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE.

Pamphlets published on Malta during the Assembly of les Etats Ghieraux(States-General) ; together xvith those printed since that Time, withQuotations and Observations.

Observations de la Chambre de Commerce de Marseilles sur divergesQuestions qui lui ont 6t6 faites par un Depute de 1’AssembleeNationale, relativement au Decret de cette Assemblee concernantles Biens de l’Ordre de Maltlie. In quarto, 10 pages.

“ The board of trade at Marseilles will never forget the servicesrendered to France by the order of Malta in 1728, when the state ofTripoly had the insolence to declare war against the French nation.The same board will also constantly remember, that the bailiff deBoccage, in 1734, procured assistance from the order for some Mar-seilles vessels richly laden, which had taken refuge in Malta; thatthe charg^ d’affaires, in 1742, acquainted France with the armamentpreparing at Tunis; and that the chevalier deSt. Tropis, in returningfrom Portugal, escorted the vessels sailing to Marseilles beyond Cadiz,they being apprehensive of being taken by the Algerines; and that heafterwards anchored off the Hyeres islands for some days, in order tooffer the same escort, as far as Malta, to the vessels ready to sail fromMarseilles to the Levant. The armed vessels of the order continuallysailing through those seas, forced, in some measure, the states ofTripoly, Algiers, and Tunis, to hoist the French colours; and con-stantly opposed any views the people of those different nations mighthave of building vessels for the transport of their merchandise andother pru»Wtj ons> One hundred and fifty vessels, indeed often stillmore, with ten or twelve men, in trading on the coasts

of Africa.