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HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF

[ANNIS 1839—1840.

Warrant. Sir Yittor Caridi, was Invested with the Ensigns of a Knight GrandCross, and the Cavaliere Stamo Gangadi, was Knighted and Invested as aKnight Commander at Corfu, by Lieutenant-General Sir Howard Douglas, theLord High Commissioner, on the 18th of November; and Sir Hector Greig,and Sir Agostino Randon, were Knighted and Invested as Knights Com-manders at Malta, on the 27th of December, by the Governor, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie.

In January 1840, Sir Yittor Caridi, who had been Invested as a KnightGrand Cross in the preceding November, died at Cephalonia: in Februarythe Order lost Admiral Sir Harry Neale, Baronet; and in March, General SirWilliam Wilkinson, both of whom were Knights Grand Cross.

On the 21st of May the Sovereign was pleased to appoint the MostReverend Crissanthos Masullo, Exarch of the Ionian Church for the SeventhParliament, and Archbishop Metropolitan of the Diocese of the Island of Corfu,to be Prelate of the Order, which Office had been vacant more than twelveyears; and he was Invested by the Lord High Commissioner, in the Palace ofSaint Michael and Saint George with great ceremony, on the 29th of Julyfollowing. In June the Order lost two Knights Grand Cross, by the death ofGeneral Sir Henry Pigot, and General Sir John Oswald; and the Cavaliere,Count Romualdo Barbaro, dying in May, his vacancy was filled on the 24thof June, by the appointment of Mr. Agostino Portelli, a Member of theCouncil of Government at Malta.

On the 7th of July, the Knights Commanders, Sir Francesco Muzzan ofZante, and Sir Pietro Coidan of Cephalonia, were promoted to the rank ofKnights Grand Cross; the Cavaliere Count Demetrio della Decima, Memberof the Supreme Council of Justice of the Ionian States, was made a KnightCommander; and Doctor George Cazzaiti, Member of the Legislative Assemblyof those States, was appointed a Cavaliere of the Order. Sir Francesco Muzzanwas Invested by the Lord High Commissioner, at Zante, on the 29th ofSeptember; and on the 24th of that month His Excellency Invested Sir PietroCoidan at Cephalonia. In both instances the ceremony was performed in thepresence of the Resident, the Bishop, and other Functionaries, of each ofthose Islands. The Count della Decima was Knighted and Invested with theEnsigns of a Knight Commander, by Sir Howard Douglas, the Lord HighCommissioner, in the Palace of Saint Michael and Saint George, at Corfu, onthe 9th of September. On the 14th of September, the Cavaliere Altavilla