PART II.

BOOK III.

FROM THE ELECTION OF THE GRAND-MASTER ROHAN (1775) TO THE PRESENT

TIME.

CHAPTER I.

Roh AN elected grand-master. Raising of the Maltese regiment. A generalchapter held. Reforms made in the public schools, and in the administrationof justice. The observatory built ; and afterwards destroyed by lightning.The possessions belonging to the order of St. Anthony added to those ofMalta. Creation of a new language called the Anglo-Bavarian. The re-storation of several commanderies situated in Poland. - - Page 1

CHAP. II.

An earthquake in Calabria and Sicily ; relief sent thither by the order. Receptionof the Maltese galleys at Reggio and Messina. Generous conduct of theknights; they distribute provisions among the poor, and assist the surgeonsin dressing the wounded. Dreadful scenes which presented themselves onevery side. The general and captains of the galleys bestow alms on the di-stressed sufferers. - - - - - - - - - 12

CHAP. III.

Decrees of the assemblies in France against the order of Malta. Account of themanner in which that order managed its possessions, one third of which waspaid to government during M. Neckar’s administration. Five hundred thou-sand French livres sent to Lewis XVI. on his flight to Varennes, ServicesVOL* H*