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ST. JOHN ON JERUSALEM.

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to sending the rest of the invalids out of the islandto be supported elsewhere, at their country’s ex-pense, and similar, were broken off abruptly, bypressing and infallible tidings that the Turk was athand. So ensued a parade of the different Lan-guages as of old, drawn up each before its owninn, to be examined by a knight of another Lan-guage, with all the ancient details; and of the four-teen chosen knights-examiners, was Nuzza, Bailiffof the Eagle. Only what appears to me an ad-junct is here precisely specified, that each indivi-dual had to fire three musket shots at a target,with a premium for the best. A roll showed themin all (knights and servants-at-arms), a little morethan five hundred. But these were in the mostperfect condition, ready for any grade, whetherthe lowest, or to act as superior officers to excellenttroops; valiant and faithful volunteers, of allranks and nations, and a not effeminate popu-lation.

What countries sent forth who participated inso famous a siege, so glorious a war, it is not justto deprive them of their due fame. Therefore,says Bosio, “ here they are for an eternal memo-rial, as far as my brother and I were able todiscover; ” and they lived within some thirty yearsof the event.