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faith, and prove that you have none; but profoundis our conviction that by a just judgment of Godwe shall be permitted to overthrow you. Standthen must our determination, that while you retainand protect traitors who compromise your safetyand ours, we must not endure your seductions andlies; so at the appointed hour we shall visit yourperverse city, take it by storm, and with thestrong hand crumble every resistance, and youshall all perish by the edge of the scimitar. Fare-well ; only in regard of your ambassadorial func-tions, we permit and command your being allowedto return safe and sound to those who sent you.’’ 1

Full of sorrow, the deputies re-entered Acre, andthe dolorous recital of their mission took placebefore a meeting, which included the Patriarch ofJerusalem, the French ambassador, Count de Gresli,and the English Sir Otho de Grandison, and theprincipal citizens. Nor can it be seen why Michaudadds the grand masters (the Teutonic was in Ger-many), whereas his authority mentions none ofthem; 2 and it is not discordant with sovereignright to give audience in their own house alone;as we shall see the Hospitallers do the very lastday of their reign in Acre. Wherefore it is pro-

1 Arab. Chron., 569.—Michaud. Hist., v. 125.

2 Michaud : Hist., v. 424.