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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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and courageous to heroism the most romantic, asplendid and liberal man, a cousin of the late PopeJulius, and Governor of Castle St. Angelo atRome, and one day to be Grand Master, Sir Peterdel Monte, was to defend the whole island ofSenglea and St. Michael’s Fort. The entire cur-tain which forms the triangle’s second side, fromthe extreme west of France unto St. Angelo, wasentrusted to Arragon, including Catalogna andNavarre; and the third, from St. Angelo to Pro-vence, would formerly have belonged to those ofCastille and Portugal, of England and of Germany;but the first of these being by far the mostnumerous, it was thought best to station them inthe most dangerous part, to wit, from the angle ofProvence to where the riding house once stood,but was thrown down for that effect; and to Cas-tille and Portugal succeeded the German Language;and next what should have been the English; butas it was reduced to a single individual, Sir OliverStarquey, a body of hired soldiers were put underhis command, to defend the rest of the curtain upto St. Angelo. And since the Auvergnese werenot in sufficient number, the grand master plantedsome Genoese between the corner, where Provenceended and Castille began, whence that spot iscalled to this day, Post of Genoa. In the infirmary,