“ It is impossible, without denying the different facts related bothin ancient and modern history, not to acknoAvledge the services ren-dered to France in particular by the cruising armaments of the order,in all the Avars betAveen that nation and the states of Barbary.

“ France furnished cloth for clothing the Maltese troops, thesla\ T es, and the crew for the galleys ; likewise drugs for the use of thehospitals, a variety of articles for the arsenals, and provisions of dif-ferent sorts.

“ Five hundred vessels Avere employed in the Levant,trade. Thereturns were estimated at thirty millions of French livres.”

Observations de la Chambre de Commerce de Guienne, par l’Ordre deMalthe. In quarto, three pages.

This board approves all the observations made by that of Marseilles,and hopes that the national assembly will, in its Avisdom, prevent thosemisfortunes which must inevitably attend the destruction of the orderof Malta.

Rapport des Ddput&s extraordinaires des Manufactures et du Com-merce de France, auprfes de 1’Assemble Nationale, sur l’Ordre deMalthe. Sign6s par les Deputes des Villes de Paris, Marseilles,Bourdeaux, Bayonne, Nantes, L’Orient, Rouen, St. Malo, LeHavre, Dieppe, Dunkerque, Lisle, Lyon, Amiens, Sedan, Elbeuf,& la Rochelle. In quarto, seven pages.

In this report it is said, “ The marine, or navy of Malta, may beregarded as a maritime marechausske. (guard), always upon the Avatch,and acting the part of a guardian. During the Avar Malta Avas in-estimable, as it served for an asylum for the trade and navy of France :it Avas also a nursery for excellent sailors.

“ Marseilles alone sent nearly to the A'alue of thirty millions ofFrench livres of the productions of France to the LeA^ant, togetherAvith tAventy-fiv© millions of the different manufactures.

In America, or in India, its commerce Avith Spain, Italy, and

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