HISTORY

or THE

KNIGHTS OF MALTA.

BOOK III.

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

THE PRESENT TIME.

CHAPTER I.

Rohan elected Grand-Master. Raising of the Maltese Regiment.A general Chapter held. Reforms made in the public Schools, andin the Administration of Justice. The Observatory built; and after-wards destroyed by Lightning. The Possessions belonging to theOrder of St. Anthony added to those of Malta. Creation of a nmLanguage called the Anglo-Bavarian. The Restoration of severalCommanderies situated in Pola7id.

No election was ever so prompt as that which raised thebailiff de Rohan to the dignity of grand-master; he was indeedso universally approved and desired, that it was merely as amatter of form that the ceremonials took place *. This sove-reign was of the French language. His father, having beenpersecuted by the regent of France, Philip duke of Orleans,

* 12th November, 1775.

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